pointers pre-final psych

What can a person do to prevent drug abuse?
1. Use drug properly. Most drugs are beneficial when used under medical advice.
2. Understand your own self. Accept and respect yourself for what you are.
3. Develop your potentials. Engage in wholesome, productive and satisfying
activities.
4. Learn to relate effectively with others. Have a confident to whom you can
communicate your problems fully.
5. Learn to cope with your problems and other stresses without the use of drugs.
6. If you have problems you feel you cannot cope with it, seek professional help.
7. Develop strong moral and spiritual values.

What parents do to prevent drug abuse?
1. Create a warm and friendly atmosphere in the home.
2. Develop effective means of communications with your children. Be open and honest
with them.
3. Understand and accept your children for what they are and not for what you want
them to be.
4. Listen to your children. Respect their opinion. Guide them in making wise
decisions.
5. Praise your children for whatever positive achievement they have accomplished,
no matter how trivial they may seem to you.
6. Take time to be with your children no matter how busy you are.
7. Learn to give your children responsibility to which is commensurate to their age.
8. Strengthen their moral and spiritual values.

AIDS way of transmission
1. having sex with an infected person;
2. sharing needle (shooting drugs) with someone who’s infected;
3. Being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected woman.

Pillars of drug prevention
1. drug supply reduction
# Law enforcement
# Regulatory compliance
# Judicial & legislative measures
2. drug demand reduction
# Policy formulation
# Preventive education programs: Barkada Kontra Droga
# Capability building program
3. alternative development
4. civic awareness and response
5. regional/international cooperation

What can community leaders do to prevent drug abuse.
. Plan and implement social action programs involving young people, civic groups,
and religious organizations and other professionals to improve community life
• Characteristics of Emotions
• Maslow’s Hierarchical Theory of Motivation.
• Control of Emotions.
• Rules on Developing an Emotionally Healthy Personality
• Synthesis of the Different Theories of Emotions
• Physiological Basis of Emotion
• Motivation has been referred to as the “why” of behavior.
• Biological source of motivation pertain to those physical needs of an individual
like food, rest, drink, etc.
• Extrinsic incentive that are not found within but out of the activity.
• Sex drive is more need-related than incentive related.
• Psychological motive are also called universal motive.
• Conscious motives that refers to feelings and thoughts within the awareness of
the individual.
• Ethnology perspective of Motivation also termed as “fixed action” pattern.
• n Ach means striving for a standard excellence.
• Motives can change.
• n Pow need finds its way everywhere in everyday life whenever there two or more
people.
• Incentive is an object that will lessen the drive by satisfying the need, induces
action or motive effects.
• Social frustration resulted from social conditions or those that have to do with
people.
• Belongingness need refers to the need to be with someone, going with and accepted
by others
• Behavioral theory of emotion is also known as “facial-feedback theory” where
facial expression precedes an emotion.
• Personal emotional experience aspect of emotion is associated with the term
feeling.
• Emotion literally means “stirred – up” or “excited”, a concept that is associated
with motivation.
• Internal conflict is a frustration that occurs in the mind of the person.
• Approach-avoidance conflict in which the person is both attracted and repelled by
the same goal.
• Hypothalamus is the seat of emotion.
• Avoidance – avoidance conflict in which a person is attracted to two goals at the
same time, which are in – compatible to each other.
• Drug is a chemical substance that affects the functions of the body or mind when
taken in to the body or applied through the skin.
• Alcohol/liquor is a classification of drug refers to the alcoholic beverages
whose effects are related to their alcoholic content and to the level of alcohol
in the blood from their misuse.
• Depressants are a classification of drug are usually known as “downers” which are
drugs that act on the nervous system promoting relaxation and sleep.
• Hallucinogens are drugs that can produce changes in mood and behavior. They can
produce delusions and hallucinations.
• Narcotics are medicines that refer to opium and its derivatives (synthetic
substitute) such as cocaine, ecgorine and coca leaves.
• RA 9165 is also known as “Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002“.
• A virus that causes AIDS is the HIV.
• He was a champion of AIDS prevention education was Luc Mortagnier.
• The main drug abuse is “shabu”.
• Inhalants volatile substances derived from either or chloroform.