Motivation Addiction Centers (MAC)
Some Topics for Substance Abuse Prevention and Aftercare Groups:
1. Triggers for Addictive behavior and strategies for overcoming.
2. Biological aspect of addiction.
3. Habit aspect of addiction
4. Oral fixation aspect of addiction
5. Delayed gratification and giving a cookie when in pain.
6. Bonding with mom and shaping behaviors like facial expressions, body
language, how to read feelings.
7. Cooley's Looking Glass Image ... How am I doing?
8. Classical Conditioning: Conditioned Responses and how to use
as strategy for controlling addiction. Creating harmless substitutes.
9. Needs for feeling "connection" and how men are damaged in our society. How relationships are damaged.
10. Understanding repressed feelings and needs for intimacy and the damages to family, and American culture. Frustrated needs and poor socialization leading to hostile, anti-social behaviors.
11. Needs for contact: Tehran orphanage. Failure to thrive. Skin Hunger.
12. Marlow's spider monkey experiment and wire frame mothers.
13. Relationship between personality type and addiction. (This is huge and
covers more material and topics than I can even name here.)
14. Strengths: Finding them and reinforcing them. Building self-esteem and confidence. Falling in love with self.
15. Weaknesses: Finding strategies for overcoming them.
16. Controlling Stress
17. Pair Bonding. Thinking is for survival and so is Feeling. Desmond Morris, “The Naked Ape.”
18. Anger, Anxiety, Fear, Adrenals, Automomic Nervous System.
19. The basics of Jung's 16 personality types.
20. Extrovert/Introvert
21. Sensor/Intuitive
22. Thinker/Feeler Most who test Thinker are revealing Public Mask.
23. Judger/Perceiver
24. Stats of type and what that means to clients.
25. Birth order
26. Taking MBTI as first step to analysis and then digging to find true personality.
27. Personalities under Stress... In the "Grip." "Shadow" personality.
28. Acquiring behavior traits from other personality types.
29. How to test others to determine personality type.
30. How knowledge of the parts of personality help you understand and work with others. Learning how to develop a healthy relationship by letting go of repressed feelings and using understanding of traits to help.
31. The language of feelings that women learn but men don't know exists. Teaching men how to recognize, understand, and how to talk about it so they can learn.
32. Using the tools of personality and letting down emotional walls to enable free flowing communication to become "connected" and develop intimacy.