Question by ganicity
the purpose of this paper is to review a specific treatment model or approach
College students binge drink for many reasons, which results in long-term health risks. Many college students binge drink in order to fit in with fraternity, sororities members, and/or dormitories that sometimes insists on having young college students to drink especially lots of types of alcoholic drinks. College students drink a variety of alcoholic beverages from light to heavy alcoholic beverages that increase health risks and psychological health risks. Treatments such as motivational interviewing can help lessen the consumption of alcohol and allow the college students who binge drink to slowly recover from this disease they have developed of binge drinking. Means comparisons indicated that both groups showed reductions in alcohol-related problems, however, only the Motivational Interviewing sample evidenced significant reductions in binge drinking (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). Misuse of alcohol can lead to a wide range of consequences, the most severe being alcohol abuse, dependence, and death (Devos-Comby, L. & Lange, J., 2008). The median number of drinks in a row that a college man or women must have to be called a binge drinker is 6 for a man and 5 for a woman (Wechsler, H., & Kuo, M. (2000).
Treatments such as motivational interviewing can benefit specifically college students who drink alcohol in sororities or fraternities that, binge drink. Binge drinking is a common problem that many college students are facing throughout their college lives. There are many alcoholic specific treatments that offer a wide range of help to allow those who suffer from binge drinking to be able to recovery from the alcoholic abuse.
There are a couple of successful ways in which binge drinking can be helped. Findings show that more education and provision of coping skills training during treatment may influence self-efficacy by increasing the coping resources of a patient with SUD (McKellar, Ilgen & Moos, 2008).
The present findings suggest that individuals who report the greatest initial improvements in alcohol-related problems and impulsivity may have difficulty maintaining a high level of self-efficacy (McKellar, Ilgen & Moos, 2008). One brief intervention, motivational interviewing (MI) has shown efficacy in reducing alcohol-related problems in college samples (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). When compared with MI, other interventions have also reduced student drinking, necessitating the inclusion of a control condition when evaluating
MI (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). While participants reported feeling increased discrepancy from their peers and increased desire to reduce drinking, no behavior change emerged (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007).
Alcohol students encounter binge drinking due to a form of social entertainment with other college students. Alcohol is the main factor in which students have no control since the process to reduce alcohol consumption is a difficult process. Some types of treatments to consider for alcoholic students are detoxification. Also college students have a hard time in understanding themselves.
There are many factors that contribute to alcohol such as society, pressure, and stress. As a college student, alcohol is a way to release the negativity of life and just use alcohol as a mean to numb the pain one goes through. In order to understand what treatment is best for oneself several steps should be considered to see which treatment is best for one. Consideration of selection and socialization effects is central to understanding how substance use relates to fraternity, and sorority membership (McCabe, Schulenberg, Johnston, O’Malley, Bachman & Kloska, 2005).
There are college students who already started to drink and therefore want to become associated with sororities or fraternities in order to drink more excessively without limitations. Undergraduate students who are heavy drinkers before starting college may tend to select specific fraternities and sororities with a reputation for ‘partying’ and heavy drinking; In turn, being a member of such fraternities or sororities serves to increase their heavy drinking (McCabe, S., Schulenberg, J., Johnston, L., O’Malley, P., Bachman, J., & Kloska, D. (2005).
The lack of a significant interaction between gender and group membership indicates that the brief intervention resulted in comparable drinking reductions in women and men (Borsari & Carey, 2000). One of the treatments that are used with college binge drinking students is brief motivational interviewing. First, the interviewer helped the student review personal alcohol use in the past month, which was then compared with both campus and national norms (Borsari & Carey, 2000).
College students binge drink for numerous reasons. In the context of substance use, an individual can use drugs or alcohol as an avoidance strategy to try to reduce dis
Answer by Maria N.
It depends on your academic level. But if you’re 16 just like me, I’d give this a B grade. You did fulfill the basic requirements of the question, however you tend to get a bit repetitive about college students and binge drinking. Perhaps you can add some creativity into your essay to make it more engaging, as well as being informative at the same time.
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