The Influences Of Group Intervention Based On The Satir Therapy On Attentional Bias And Self-esteem About Heroin Addicts

The prevention and treatment of heroin addiction is a difficult problem both at home and abroad now. In foreign countries, there are15-60heroin addicts per ten thousand population. With the deepening of Heroin addicts’ need for heroin, their physical and psychological dependence on heroin is deepening, hence, the addicts will more spend more money and energy, even through unusual means to obtain drugs, eventually lead to the addicts’Physical and mental function are seriously damaged, families separated, social tensions even more anti-social behavior and crime. So, heroin addictive behavior not only harm to the individual physical and mental health, seriously endangering the social security. In addiction treatment work, it’s not difficult to let the addicted individuals complete physiological detoxification, the biggest difficulty is how to prevent and control the relapse of heroin whose rate is as high as95%in the six months after completing physiological detoxification or returning to society. More and more researchers focus on how to control drug addicts’exorbitant relapse rate. Previous studies have shown that the deepest cause of heroin addictive behavior’s high relapse rate is not a physical dependence on heroin, but the psychological desire, also known as the "heart addiction".Therefore rehabilitation work lies in how to eliminate the addicts’psychological desire for heroin. This study focuses on two important factors that impact addicts’"heart addiction"-self-esteem and characteristic of attentional bias, currently, the researchs on this two aspects of addicts are relatively few. Self-esteem is a kind of individual self attitude, refers to the positive or negative individual attitude towards themself, and the cognition of self ability. It is an important part of the system, also an an important indicator of measuring individual mental health. It plays an important role in the development of nurture individual and the cultivation of healthy personality. Previous studies show that, compared with normal group, addictive individuals’explicit self-esteem are generally low. Previous studies also show that low implicit self-esteem individuals are more likely to induce psychological desire for drugs, more prone to dependence on drugs. Previous studies have shown that attentional bias of drugs(susceptibility and difficulty of removement to stimulate of drug-related cues) can induce an individual’s psychological desire for drugs, so as to maintain the individual’s addictive behavior. A lot of research data have been confirmed, heroin addicts exist attentional bias to drug-related cues stimulation. Attentional bias has important influence on the induction, maintaining and relapsing process of addictive behavior. Consequently, understand heroin addicts’attentional bias and overall condition of self-esteem and adopt mental intervention, can effectively improve individual’s attitude to the affirmation of the self and promote individual’s attention transfer, seek new ways and means of addictive behavior’s withdrawal.This study investigated the heroin addicts attention bias, explicit and implicit self-esteem level, then took group counseling to intervene. The main research conclusions are as follows:(1) Addicts’explicit self-esteem level were generally lower than normal group; addicts’implicit self-esteem level were higher than normal group, but the difference of implicit effect value was not significant; In general, the heroin addicts’implicit self-esteem leaned to positive.(2) Heroin addicts had significant attentional bias characteristics toward drugs related and negative self clues stimulation, they were easily affected by these two stimulations and hard to transfer attention.(3) Group counseling based on the Satir model could significantly improve heroin addicts’ implicit self-esteem, but doesn’t have obvious effect on explicit self-esteem.(4) Group counseling based on the Satir model through systemic experience group interaction, could help to promote the individuals’attention to positive self clues, distribute more attention resource to the clues related to positive self; Addicts’attentional bias of drug-related cues were reduced after intervening, but not significant.(5) According to the group effect feedback form, through8times group intervention,the numbers generally reacted that in the aspect of self they had a more deep knowledge and understanding, better to affirm themself and accepting themselves; in terms of coping styles, most members reacted that they would try to change their previous bad coping styles, be better responsible for themselves in later life.