Treating addiction with mindfulness.
Addictions are formed through associative learning, also known as positive and negative reinforcement. Standard treatment methods involve avoidance and substitution; avoiding the people, places and things that act as reminders of the addiction and substituting the negative habit with another, health...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captions in English. |
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London, United Kingdom :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2015.
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| Series: | SAGE video tutorials.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video |
| Summary: | Addictions are formed through associative learning, also known as positive and negative reinforcement. Standard treatment methods involve avoidance and substitution; avoiding the people, places and things that act as reminders of the addiction and substituting the negative habit with another, healthier one. Mindfulness as a treatment for addiction discourages avoidance and encourages experiencing the craving and simply not acting. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (13 min., 29 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| ISBN: | 9781473931565 (streaming video) : |