Addictive behaviours

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  • Addictive Behaviour
    • Griffiths (2005)
      • 1. Salience [most important activity in the addict’s life and dominates their thinking, feelings and behaviour]
      • 2. Mood Modification [subjective experience that people report as a consequence of engaging in the particular activity]
      • 3. Tolerance [increasing amounts of the particular activity are required to achieve the former effects]
      • 4. Withdrawal Symptoms [unpleasant feelings, states and/or physical effects that occur when the particular activity is discontinued or suddenly reduced]
      • 5. Conflict [conflicts between the addict and those around them (interpersonal conflict) or from within the individual themselves (intrapsychic conflict)]
      • 6. Relapse [tendency for repeated reversions to earlier patterns of the particular activity]
    • Walters (1999)
      • Perceived [addict is engrossed by their addictive stimulus]
      • Preoccupation [continuing to engage in addictive stimulus despite difficulty and conflict]
      • Persistence [continuing to engage in addictive stimulus as tolerance increases]
      • Progression [addict feels like they have lost control when in fact they havent]
    • Sense of dependency and strong sense of physiological and psychological need for a substance or behaviour.

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