THE DUAL DIAGNOSIS IDENTITY THROUGH THE EYES OF INDIVIDUALS ONLY WITH ADDICTION PROBLEMS
Keramefs Panagiotis, MSc, BA Psychologist Contact details: keramefs@gmail.com ABSTRACT Dual diagnosis, or else coexisting drug and mental health problems, remains a field that requires further understanding. The causes of dual diagnosis are multiple and uncertain, the definition has the experts disagreeing and the therapeutic approach seems to have no positive results so far and it […]
Use of substances and death conditions in Greek population
Eleftheria Kokkini (1), Charalampos Poulopoulos (2), Chara Spiliopoulou (3) (1) PhD Candidate, Department of Social Administration and Political Science, Democritus University of Thrace (2) Professor of social work, department of social Administration and Political science, Democritus University of Thrace, e-mail: chpoulo@socadm.duth.gr (3) Professor of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of the Medical School of the University […]
The role of dynamic inter-family characteristics in drug addiction
KALIA NIKOLAOU1, MARIA SMIRNAKI2 Psychologist, MSc “Criminal Law & Addictions”, Postal Address: Makariou C 12, Ipsonas, Limassol, Cyprus, Post Code: 4187, Tel: 6948170448, +357 99762649. Email: kalianikolaou2@gmail.com Psychologist, Doctor of the Department of Primary Education of the University of Crete, Head of Open Support Structure of KETHEA ARIADNI Postal Address: 12, Apolodorou Street, Agios Ioannis […]
Life sentence in rehabilitation: a study of biographies of incarcerated drug users participating in a therapeutic community in prison
CHRISTINA KELESENLI SOCIOLOGIST, MSc, THERAPEUTIC STAFF IN KETHEA PROMITHEAS, PERAN 53, AMPELOKΙPOI, 56123 THESALONIKI, Contact details: email: kelesenlix@yahoo.gr Abstract Aim: The aim of this thesis is to study the course of life of the members of a KETHEA prison Therapeutic Community programme who have been convicted with life sentence and to highlight the legal […]
An Alternative Approach in Drug Addiction Counseling: Adventure Therapy, a pilot Study
Fotis Panagiotounis1 & Yannis Theodorakis2 1KETHEA Education Department, PhD cand. University of Thessaly, Greece, Contact details: panagiotounisfotis@gmail.com 2Yannis Theodorakis, Professor of Sport Psychology, University of Thessaly, Greece Abstract The purpose of this study is to broaden the perspective of addiction counseling by proposing an alternative therapeutic approach, the Adventure Therapy Methodology. Adventure Therapy (AT) […]
Long-term effects of youth unemployment on alcohol- related morbidity
Emelie Thern1,2, Mats Ramstedt1,3 & Johan Svensson1,4 (1) The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN), Stockholm, Sweden, (2) Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, (3) Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden and (4) Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to: Emelie Thern, The […]
The impact of early maladaptive schemas and temperament in internet addiction in young adults
VASILIKI MARIA ROUSSOU1, DIANA CHARILA2 1Psychologist, PhD candidate University of Athens, MSc Addiction/Addictology, email: marivily.roussou@gmail.com 2Dr. of Clinical Psychologist, Laboratory Teaching Staff member, Dept. of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, email: aharila@psych.uoa.gr Abstract Over the past years Internet Addiction has been established as a definition that explains a clinical disorder often required to […]
School failure, school abandonment and use of substances. The teachers’ perspective
Despoina Chatzipapa1,*, & Dr. Panagiotis Koutrouvidis2 1.Social Worker, MSc in Law, – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 2.Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of Adult, – Hellenic Open University *Contact details: Email dchatzipapa93@gmail.com tel 0030 6980 988 246 ABSTRACT This project constitutes a qualitative research assessing school failure and abandonment caused by the use of illegal psychotropic drugs. […]
Elementary School Students Aggressive or/and Delinquent Behavior: Teachers Perceptions about Their Etiology and Management
Maria Smyrnaki1 & Elias Kourkoutas2 1PhD in Department of Primary Education, University of Crete, Psychologist, Head of Out-Patient Unit in Therapeutic Program KETHEA Ariadne, Apollodorou 12, Heraklion, 71409, Crete, Greece, tel: +302811102525, +302810319505, E-mail: marsmyrn@hotmail.com, smirnaki@kethea-ariadni.gr 2Professor of Psychology, Chairman of the Interfaculty Post Graduate Program in Special Education, Department of Primary Education, University of […]
Editorial #12
The philosophy and practice of the Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals place training and education as a central axis in its therapeutic approach and operation. When drug addicts enter treatment for the first time, training and education along is seen as an equal to treatment priority. The emphasis of both treatment and education is to […]
