Discussion Post: Addiction Models
YouTube Video: "Cross-Cultural Issues in Recovery from Addiction with Dr. Bob Weathers"
Review the video and then respond to the questions below:
• How important do you think it is to have people with addiction issues work with a professional from their culture?
• Obviously from the video we have learned when it comes to a psychiatrist or psychologist few in proportion at non-white. First, how might we create more cultural diversity among professionals? Secondly, what factors might white psychiatrists or psychologists need to take into consideration when treating patients from a different culture?
• What two points in this video seemed important to you?
• He talks about different cultures connecting with personal, communal and/or spiritual power normally not found in a western approach to working with additions. How might this factor be important and how might it be incorporated in treatment?
• Does he bring up valid points?
• What method does he use to draw his conclusions from?
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.