Historique
Périodique
Thinking about drinking: the power of self-fulfilling prophecies
Auteur(s) :
SCHALER, J. A.
Année
1996
Page(s) :
187-192
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
12
Domaine :
Alcool / Alcohol
Thésaurus mots-clés
ALCOOL
;
CONSOMMATION
;
ABSTINENCE
;
PROHIBITION
;
COMPORTEMENT
;
PREVENTION
;
TRAITEMENT
Note générale :
International Journal of Drug Policy, 1996, 7, (3), 187-192
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Self-efficacy is people's confidence in their ability to achieve a specific goal in a specific situation. For example, the more people believe in their ability to moderate their use of drugs, the more likely they will be able to moderate. The inverse is true too: The more people believe in their inaptibility to moderate their use of drugs, the more likely they will not be able to moderate it. These facts are important because most treatment programmes focus on abstinence, and they teach people to believe that they lack the ability to moderate their drug use because of a mythical disease called drug addiction. Unfortunately, the more treatment programmes convince clients that this is true, the more likely the clients are to prove them 'correct'. Teaching that addiction is a disease creates a self-fulfilling prophecy: If people believe they are powerless they are likely to act in a powerless way. This article focw;es on the importance of teaching people that they have the power to change their behaviours and the political environment they live in. We need to create a new self-fulfilling prophecy: If people believe they are powerful they become powerful.
Affiliation :
Department of Justice, Law and Society, American University, Washington DC
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.
Cote :
A01088