Chapter 7: Addiction - eBook (2025 Edition)
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Stressed out and overloaded? Buy yourself some time with this teacher support pack. With the click of a button you get 14 full lesson plans, the slideshows, activities, games and the workbook. All designed to accompany our unit on Addiction for IB Psychology: A Student's Guide (Chapter 7).
- Context: Health and well-being (Substance abuse as a health problem)
- Approach: Biological (with some cognitive and sociocultural)
Looking for a more interesting way of teaching "Health Problems" in IB Psychology? This eBook on "Addiction" covers the topic substance abuse by delving into the opioid crisis. The content has been carefully selected to be relevant and interesting yet accessible for all students.
In this chapter, students learn about the role of dopamine in addiction, the famous Rat Park studies and how factors like unemployment, childhood trauma and attachment styles all contribute to the risk of substance abuse.
Works best with our Teacher Support Pack.
Lessons include:
Causes of Addiction
- Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
- The Dopamine Hypothesis
- Rat Park Studies
- Unemployment
- Pain and the Brain
- Attachment
- Social Learning
- Stress
Treatments for Addiction
- Brain Stimulation
- Contingency Management
- Prevalence and Prevention
Looking for a more interesting way of teaching "Health Problems" in IB Psychology? This eBook on "Addiction" covers the topic substance abuse by delving into the opioid crisis. The content has been carefully selected to be relevant and interesting yet accessible for all students.
In this chapter, students learn about the role of dopamine in addiction, the famous Rat Park studies and how factors like unemployment, childhood trauma and attachment styles all contribute to the risk of substance abuse.
Works best with our Teacher Support Pack.
Lessons include:
Causes of Addiction
- Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
- The Dopamine Hypothesis
- Rat Park Studies
- Unemployment
- Pain and the Brain
- Attachment
- Social Learning
- Stress
Treatments for Addiction
- Brain Stimulation
- Contingency Management
- Prevalence and Prevention