Psychotherapy for Clients with Addictive Disorders

Addictive disorders can be particularly challenging for clients. Not only do these disorders typically interfere with a client’s ability to function in daily life, but they also often manifest as negative and sometimes criminal behaviors. Sometime clients with addictive disorders also suffer from other mental health issues, creating even greater struggles for them to overcome. In your role, you have the opportunity to help clients address their addictions and improve outcomes for both the clients and their families.
To prepare:
• Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide about diagnosing and treating addictive disorders. As you watch the 187 Models of Treatment for Addiction video, consider what treatment model you may use the most with clients presenting with addiction.
• Search a Library database and choose a research article that discusses a therapeutic approach for treating clients, families, or groups with addictive disorders.

Assignment:
In a 4- to 9-slide PowerPoint presentation, address the following. Your title and references slides do not count toward the 5- to 10-slide limit:
• Briefly describe humanistic-existential psychotherapy and the second approach you selected.
• Explain at least three differences between these therapies. Include how these differences might impact your practice as a PMHNP.
• Focusing on one video you viewed, explain why humanistic-existential psychotherapy was utilized with the patient in the video and why it was the treatment of choice. Describe the expected potential outcome if the second approach had been used with the patient.
• Support your response with specific examples from this week’s media and at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources. Explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

Required Media Resources
• AllCEUs Counseling Education. (2017, November 4). 187 models of treatment for addiction | Addiction counselor training seriesLinks to an external site. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQkA0mIWx8A

• Medmastery. (2022, March 8). How to use motivational interviewing in addiction medicineLinks to an external site.. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_wceN5DX7E

Resources to consider:
• American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders Links to an external site. (5th ed., text rev.). https://go.openathens.net/redirector/waldenu.edu?url=https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787
o “Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis”
• Wheeler, K. (Ed.). (2020). Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse: A how-to guide for evidence-based practice (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing.
o Chapter 9, “Motivational Interviewing”
o Chapter 19, “Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Addictions and Related Disorders”

NOTE: Please use Resources/References not older than 5-years. (Late 2018/2019 – 2023)