In a Relationship with a Substance Abuser, psychology homework help

Assignment 2: LASA 1: In a Relationship with a Substance Abuser

Directions:

Nearly everyone probably knows someone who places other people’s health, welfare, and safety before their own. When they do this, they can lose contact with their own needs, desires, and sense of self-worth.

1. Please watch the movie When a Man Loves a Woman. It is available from Amazon On-Demand rental for streaming or download and Netflix DVD rental. You may also be able to find the movie at your local public library or video rental store.
2. Refer to the characteristics of codependent people as discussed in the assigned weekly readings. Choose three of the characteristics to examine.
3. Search the AUO library and include at least one peer-reviewed journal article on treatment for codependence to use for research.
4. Based on the character of the husband in the movie When a Man Loves a Woman, your weekly readings and the research article you reviewed, write a 4-5 page paper that addresses the following for each of the three characteristics you picked:
   1. Explain three codependent characteristics. Explain why you have chosen each particular characteristic. Provide three examples, one for each characteristic, of how those codependent characteristics specifically apply to the husband’s character in the film.
   2. Evaluate how each codependent characteristic is detrimental to this person’s ability to establish and maintain healthy relationships.
   3. Analyze how the codependent behavior has evolved within the substance abuse environment.
   4. Apply what you have learned from the assigned readings and the peer-reviewed article to recommend at least two strategies for breaking codependent behaviors within a substance abuse environment.

Please note that you may locate the movie, When a Man Loves a Woman, on YouTube.

Your paper should be 4-5 pages long. Submit your response as a Word document to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Exemplary

Assignment Components

Explanation

of more than three codependent characteristics is clear and comprehensive.

Reasons for selecting those characteristics are insightful and clear.

Explanation

of how the three codependent characteristics apply to the character is

comprehensive and insightful and draws on several examples from the film.

Evaluation

of how each codependent characteristic is detrimental to the subject’s

ability to establish and maintain healthy relationships is comprehensive and

insightful and draws on several examples from the film.

Analysis

of how each codependent behavior has evolved within a substance abuse

environment is comprehensive and insightful and draws on several examples

from the film.

Recommendations

of more than two strategies for breaking codependent behavior are

comprehensive and insightful and demonstrate superior mastery of the research

reviewed.

Writing Components

(20 % of LASA grade)

Introduction catches the reader’s attention, provides

compelling and appropriate background info, and clearly states the topic.

The paper is well organized around an arguable, focused

thesis.

Thoughtful transitions clearly show how ideas relate.

Conclusion

leaves the reader with a sense of closure and provides concluding insights.

The paper is basically error

free in terms of mechanics. Grammar and mechanics help establish a clear idea

and aid the reader in following the writer’s logic.

Using APA format, accurately

paraphrased, quoted, and cited throughout the presentation when appropriate

or called for. Only a few minor errors present.

Writing remains professional in third person throughout

writing.

Word choice is precise, appropriate for the audience, and

memorable.

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