This study deals with the sociocognitive organization of the self-schema in alcoholic patients. It was aimed at understanding how the self-schema takes shape within the framework of social judgments known to be determinants of personality. Alcoholic ...
Psychodynamics and Conflicts in Male Adolescent Internet Addicted PatientsAim: Severe internet addiction as a subform of pathological media use can interrupt adolescent development by school absentism for months, absolute concentration on MMPORG-parallel-...
Hintergrund: Pathologisches Glücksspielen (PG) wird in den internationalen Klassifikationssystemen bislang als Impulskontrollstörung klassifiziert. Erst in jüngster Zeit wird aufgrund der Ähnlichkeiten in Phänomenologie, Ätiologie, Verlauf sowie ...
Fragestellung: Die aktuelle Studienlage zeigt, dass die Komorbidität Psychose und Sucht ein häufiges Phänomen ist und den Verlauf der Erkrankungen und die Therapie ungünstig beeinflusst. Unter Therapeuten herrscht häufig eine gewisse nihilistische ...
Fragestellung: Die Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung (PTBS) gehört mit einer Punktprävalenz von 15 – 41 % zu den häufigsten komorbiden Störungen bei Personen mit Abhängigkeitserkrankungen. Erst in den letzten Jahren wurde verstärkt damit begonnen, ...
Hintergrund: Viele Patienten mit einer Borderline Persönlichkeitsstörung (BPS) haben zudem eine Abhängigkeitserkrankung. Die psychotherapeutische Behandlung von Patienten mit Persönlichkeitsstörung und einer komorbid bestehenden Abhängigkeitserkrankung ...
Fragestellung: Im Verlauf einer Suchterkrankung kommt es häufig zum Auftreten depressiver Störungen. Depressive Symptome, die auch nach Abschluss der Entzugsphase persistieren, erweisen sich als ein zentraler Prädiktor für einen Rückfall und sollten im ...
Trauma and Addiction: Implications for PsychotherapyAim: This narrative review focuses on the question of how traumatic life experiences and trauma-related disorders are implicated in the etiology and pathogenesis of addiction and the resulting ...
Fragestellung: Dieses Positionspapier widmet sich der Frage nach den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Analyse tatsächlichen Glücksspielverhaltens und insbesondere, ob es eine geeignete Alternative zu üblichen Befragungsansätzen ist, problematische und ...
Die Deutsche Rentenversicherung und die Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung haben ein gemeinsames Rahmenkonzept für die ganztägig ambulante Rehabilitation Abhängigkeitskranker erstellt und nach Rücksprache mit den Suchtfachverbänden verabschiedet. Darin wird ...
Hintergrund: „Achtsamkeitsbasierte Rückfallprävention bei Substanzabhängigkeit (MBRP) und das suchtspezifische Modul „Umgang mit Sucht“ der Dialektisch Behavioralen Therapie (DBT-S) integrieren Achtsamkeit als zentrale Fertigkeit und Grundhaltung in ihr ...
Fragestellung: Bildung stellt einen wesentlichen Faktor für das Gesundheitsverhalten dar. Während hohe Bildung als protektiver Faktor für die Gesundheit gesehen wird, scheint niedrige Bildung mit gesundheitsriskanterem Verhalten verbunden zu sein. ...
Ziel: Zum einen werden Veränderungen des Erwerbsstatus der Klienten in ambulanten und stationären Suchthilfeeinrichtungen von 2007 bis 2011 beschrieben sowie ausgewählte Hauptdiagnosen (HD) miteinander verglichen. Zum anderen erfolgt für das Datenjahr ...
Epidemiology of alcohol consumption and alcohol disorders in older adultsAbstract.Aim: To present the frequency, risks, and consequences of the use and abuse of alcohol in old age as well as available means of ...
Understanding and overcoming the stigma of substance use disordersAbstract. Stigma does harm to individuals with substance use disorders (SUD), and it increases the burden of SUDs. It presents a barrier to help ...
Family Members of Individuals suffering from addiction: Prevalence, Health Behavior and Depressive moodAbstract.Background: International studies have revealed elevated health-related morbidity in relatives of ...
Systems to monitor addiction treatment – do they make sense? National and international experiencesAbstract.Objective: Monitoring systems for the treatment of substance use disorders (MfS) are utilized to monitor ...
Prevention of gambling addiction: Why measures of protection by gambling providers are insufficientAbstract.Background: With the amendment of the Gambling Treaty, a further expansion of the gambling market is ...
Anticipated Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Family Members Affected by AddictionAbstract.Aim: Although affected family members of individuals suffering from addiction (AFMs)show elevated levels of stress and ...
How Adolescents Describe their Addiction, Facing a First Inpatient Addiction TreatmentAbstract.Aim: This report describes the explanatory models of 34 adolescents using substances. The adolescents were interviewed ...
Effects of the Corona Related Lockdown on the Inpatient Rehabilitation for Addicted PatientsAbstract.Objective: There is some evidence that the corona related lockdown caused negative consequences for addicts ...
Prevention of Hazardous Substance Use Among Refugees: A Systematic ReviewAbstract.Introduction: Due to their experiences in their country of origin and during their flight and the stressors in the country of ...
Prenatal Androgen Influence on Addictive Behaviour in AdolescenceAbstract.Background: Men consume alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs more often than women, and they are more prone to pathological gambling and ...
Abstract: Aims: To explore how the temporal dimension of infinity manifests as a psycho-social dimension of addiction. Results: While notions of infinity have existed for thousands of years, at the turn of ...
Abstract: Background: Laboratory research suggests that alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and MDMA influence the processing of time. Anecdotal reports of recreational drug use also often include descriptions of changes ...
Change in the Religious-Spiritual State of Mind during the Qualified Withdrawal from AlcoholAbstract: Background: The significance of religion and spirituality (R/S) for addictive disorders is comparatively well- ...
Facilitating Access to Outpatient Addiction Support for Refugees: On the Implementation Status of Good Practice StrategiesAbstract:Aims: The aim of the study is to find out to what extent existing strategies of “...
Neurobiological and Neuropsychological Perspectives on Substance DependenceNeurobiological models of substance dependence hypothesize that addiction results from interplay between positive and negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcing effects of drugs ...
Computer games in childhood and adolescence: Relations to addictive behavior, ADHD, and aggressionPlaying computer games has become one of the main leisure activities in children and adolescents and increasingly replaces traditional playing and ...
Fragestellung: In der Untersuchung klinisch auffälliger Jugendlicher fehlen bislang Studien zum Coping mit alltäglichen Stressoren im Vergleich zu gesunden Jugendlichen. Methodik: Klinisch auffällige Jugendliche mit verschiedenen Störungen (gemischten ...
Substance-related and addictive disorders in the DSM-5This paper concerns the revised classification of Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders in the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
Treatment of alcohol-related disorders in children and adolescents: Age-specific treatment recommendations from the new interdisciplinary S3-guidelineAbstract. Objective: Alcohol-related disorders typically have an ...
Substance Use, Resulting Disorders, and Collateral Mental Disorders Among Adolescents in a Special Outpatient Institutions for AddictionsAbstract.Objective: Only few clinics offer the outpatient treatment of ...
Zusammenfassung: Obwohl unser Verständnis der Rolle neurobiologischer und kognitiver Mechanismen für die Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung von Sucht ständig zunimmt, wird dieses Wissen noch wenig in die ärztliche oder psychotherapeutische Ausbildung und ...
In respect of demographic change, the number of older patients with substance abuse and addiction is on the raise. In this review we present important clinical and therapeutic aspects of substance abuse and addiction in the elderly and focus on alcohol, ...
«Food Addiction» as a Possible Risk Factor for ObesityAbstract. The prevalence rates of overweight and obesity are, internationally as well as in Switzerland, increasing in recent years. The neurobiology tries to explore an improved understanding of the ...
Pathological Internet and Media Use in Children and Adolescents – a Perspective for Primary CareAbstract. Abstract: The medialization of the world is changing the relationship and individualization processes of children and ...
Recommendations for the Prevention, Diagnostics and Therapy of Addiction Disorders in the ElderlyAbstract. Although the chronic consumption of alcohol and sedatives, and increasingly opioids, represents a major ...
Interdisciplinary and Psychiatric Treatment of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids UsersAbstract. The prevalence of anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS; anabolic steroids) use in recreational sports is underestimated. Due to the ...
Abstract. The prevalence of anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS; anabolic steroids) use in recreational sports is underestimated. Due to the influence of social media, an increase in AAS use in recreational sports and in the ...
Longterm effects of chronic cannabis consumption<B>Aim:</B> The present study gives an overview of possible longterm effects of chronic cannabis use, especially in adolescents. Beside the development of dependence and enduring cognitive impairments, the ...
Children from addicted families in the context of youth protection agencies<B>Aim:</B> To research the connection between youth-protection interventions and a family background of alcohol abuse. </P><P><B>Method:</B> <OL><LI>Group discussions and <LI>a ...
Care for alcohol-dependent patients in specialised addiction practices in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania<B>Aims:</B> Can the care for alcohol-dependent patients be improved through outpatient treatment in specialised medical practices? </P><P> <B>Method:</...
Health-economic studies in addiction research in Germany – is there life in the desert?<span classs="fett"> Background: </span> In Germany, health-economic studies in addiction research do not play a significant role in decision making in the ongoing ...
Mindfulness: A new approach on psychotherapy for addictive behaviour<span class="fett"> Introduction: </span> The review introduces the principle of mindfulness, which in recent years has received increasing attention in different contexts of clinical ...
ADHD and addiction: brain-imaging studies<span class="fett">Aims:</span> The relationship between Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and substance abuse is discussed within the context of neuroimaging studies. The neuronal effects of ...
Male-specific goals and addiction treatment options: Taboo versus progress<span class="fett">Aims:</span> Although substance abuse is closely associated with the masculine role, so far there are hardly any treatment options specifically for men. In ...
The exclusion of gamblers: The current situation<span class="fett">Aims:</span> In light of an expanding gambling market, the protection of gamblers is of growing importance. Admission bans and self-exclusion programmes, which are being increasingly ...
The Community Reinforcement Approach: A review of an integrative approach to substance-abuse treatment<span class="fett">Introduction:</span> Developed in the United States, the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) is a comprehensive behavioural ...
A comparison of patients with and without immigration background at the beginning and the end of drug addiction treatmentAims: Are there differences between addicted immigrants from Eastern Europe and addicted persons from Germany in emotional distress, ...
Motivational Interviewing: A ReviewClients with substance use disorders are often ambivalent about engaging in addictive behaviour versus resisting it. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a directive and client-centered counselling style developed by ...
On the Definition of the Term »Chronically Multi-Impaired Addict« (CMA) An Empirical Analysis Based on Data Collected in the Cooperation Pilot Project of Follow-Up Social WorkThe proposed definition of »Chronically Multi-Impaired Addict« elabrated by ...
Realization and Effectiveness of Out-Patient Rehabilitation Results of a Prospective Multicentric Survey (19941998) at Certified Treatment Centers in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)<span class="fett">Objective:</span> Description of results to out-...
The social situation of patients and ex-patients of heroin-assisted
treatment in Switzerland a six-year follow-up studyAim: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) for people
with opioid addiction has been offered in Switzerland
since January 1994. Results ...
The addictive potential of sports bettingThe present article deals with a
product recently introduced on the
German gambling market: Sports
betting with fixed odds. We first
introduce the sports betting opportunities
currently available, including
...
Music and dance therapy in ambulatory rehabilitation of substance abusers. Rationale, development, and implementation of a scientific concept based on the example of an ambulatory substance abuser support department ...
Zusammenfassung. Musik- und Tanztherapie sind in der ambulanten Rehabilitation Drogenabhängiger hierzulande kaum bekannte Therapieformen. Es wird daher ein Konzept dazu vorgestellt, das auf breiter Erfahrung in einer ambulanten Suchtberatungsstelle in ...
Psychometric Evaluation of the German Version of the Substance Use Recovery Evaluator (SURE)Abstract: Consumption patterns and abstinence are popular, albeit insufficient, indicators in the recovery process from an alcohol use ...
The assessment of craving in smokers with a German version of the ”Questionnaire on Smoking Urges“ (QSU-G)Abstract.Background: The ”Questionnaire on smoking urges“ (QSU) was developed by Tiffany and Drobes (1991) to assess craving for smoking. ...
Abstract.Theoretical background: Considerable progress has been made in illuminating the neural basis of the compulsive use patterns characterizing substance use disorders. It has been suggested to utilize these findings to alleviate ...
The paper is a discussion of personal risk taking and risk perception in the field of health-related behavior. It reviews work on addictions, which has shown the difficulties of impulse control in the pursuit of long-term commitments. Such long-term ...
The prevalence of suicide attempts among opioid addicts is reported to lie between 8% and 17%, with some studies reporting an even higher rate among special groups of addicts. Yet there is insufficient knowledge about which addicts have a higher risk of ...
The trait of mindfulness varies among meditation-naïve individuals and is associated with attentional and autonomic regulation, two neurocognitive functions that become impaired in addiction. It was hypothesized that alcohol dependent inpatients with ...
Abstract. Desire thinking refers to verbal and imaginal elaboration of a desired target. It predicts escalations in craving intensity and subsequent alcohol use. This article aimed to determine the psychometric properties of the Dutch ...
Abstract. Delay discounting (DD) is the process of devaluing results that happen in the future. With this review, we intend to identify specificities in the processes of DD in impulsive behavior. Studies were retrieved from multiple ...
The present study explores the role of intentions, habits, and addictive tendencies in people’s video game use. Although both habits and addictive tendencies may determine higher amounts of video game use, the present study examines whether the impact of ...
The primary aim of this article is to give a theoretical and empirical background for clinical interventions in family-oriented treatment for substance use disorders. The article refers to an ongoing research project, which is based on the concepts of ...
Abstract. Pathological buying (PB) has been associated with elevated impulsivity in personality inventories, yet limited research has considered components of behavioral impulsivity. This study examined the relationship between discounting ...