MFT-6111

Lukowitsky, M. R., Balkoski, V. I., Bromley, N., & Gallagher, P. A. (2022). The effects of screening brief intervention referral to treatment (SBIRT) training on health professional trainees’ regard, attitudes, and beliefs toward patients who use substances. Substance Abuse, 43(1), 397–407. https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2021.1944955

This article addresses some of the underlying beliefs professionals have about addictions and will be useful to students as a prompt for their own underlying beliefs.

Avery, J. J., Avery, J. D., Mouallem, J., Demner, A. R., & Cooper, J. (2020). Physicians’ and attorneys’ beliefs and attitudes related to the brain disease model of addiction. The American Journal on Addictions, 29(4), 305–312. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajad.13023

This article outlines the argument for addiction as a brain disease and approaches two professions (attorneys and physicians who often work with people who have substance abuse problems) and assesses their buy-in of the brain disease model.

American Psychiatric Association (2013). Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders. https://www.psychiatry.org/file%20library/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/apa_dsm-5-substance-use-disorder.pdf

This resource briefly explains the distinctions between substance abuse and dependence according to the DSM-5.