For many years,
addiction treatment professionals and researchers have stressed the importance
of holistic approaches to both treatment for and recovery from any form of
addiction. Based in the “disease concept,” as initially outlined by the
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book and then later by the Narcotics Anonymous Basic
Text,this very important insight has forever changed the addiction treatment
field (and indeed society as a whole) for the better by stressing the
interconnectedness of the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of addiction
and recovery.
More recently, prominent researchers, such as Juhnke and
Hagedorn, Oakley and Ksir, DiClemente, Lawson et al., and Perkinson and Jongsma,
have promoted the expansion of the traditional disease conceptinto the now
prevalent Biopsychosocial Spiritual Model or BPSS Model. It has been observed
that some addiction treatment professionals and researchers (especially those
who have been practicing for many years using the traditional disease concept
model as the foundation of their life’s work) have hesitated to adopt the use
of the BPSS Model. Read more....
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