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The whys and the hows of psychosocial approaches to addiction
Author(s) -
Frings Daniel,
Albery Ian P.,
Monk Rebecca L.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12440
Subject(s) - typology , psychosocial , addiction , psychology , context (archaeology) , variety (cybernetics) , procrastination , social psychology , field (mathematics) , scope (computer science) , psychotherapist , sociology , psychiatry , paleontology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , anthropology , computer science , pure mathematics , biology , programming language
The field of addiction psychology attempts to addresses a major social problem. Yet, discourse within the discipline suggests a biological focus, driven by disease‐model of addiction, has caused our understanding to be too narrow. In contrast, psychosocial approaches conceptualize the phenomena from various perspectives. We here bring together papers utilizing a variety of methods in the context of substance use and mis‐use. These explore the effects that alcohol primes have on attentional control, how procrastination may predict hazardous drinking, the typology of “pre‐drinking” motivations and the effects of dyadic membership. It also looks at prevention in terms of public health messaging and also heroin use uptake. We hope showcasing these studies will encourage addiction researchers to widen the scope and method of their enquiries.