scholarly journals Does Addiction Have A Subject?: Desire in Contemporary U.S. Culture

Author(s):  
Jaeyoon Park

AbstractThis paper traces the emergence of a new figure of the desiring subject in contemporary addiction science and in three other recent cultural developments: the rise of cognitive-behavior therapy, the self-tracking movement, and the dissemination of ratings. In each, the subject’s desire becomes newly figured as a response to objects rather than a manifestation of the soul, measured numerically rather than expressed in language and rendered impersonal rather than individualizing. Together, these developments suggest a shift in the dominant form of the desiring subject in contemporary U.S. culture, one that breaks with the subject-form that Foucault theorized five decades ago.

Author(s):  
Lenny Syamsudin

Insomnia is a sleep disorder where a person has difficulty starting sleep, maintaining sleep, or poor sleep quality so that he experiences fatigue, irritability and less productive the next day. In Indonesia the number of people with insomnia is around 30- 50 percent of the total population of Indonesia. This study aims to determine the effect of giving Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) to the reduction of symptoms of insomnia in people with insomnia. The focus of this study is to change the irrational thoughts in people with insomnia, to make it more rational. This research uses Quasi Experiment method with The One Group Pretest-Posttest Design. Insomnia is measured using a measuring instrument that has been adapted from the Pittsburgh Insomnia Rating Scale using the translate re translate method with insomnia subjects. The results showed changes in insomnia characterized by a decrease in insomnia symptoms in the subject after being given an intervention in the form of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Based on these data, it can be concluded that the administration of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) affects the reduction of insomnia symptoms in insomniacsInsomnia merupakan suatu gangguan tidur dimana seseorang mengalami kesulitan untuk memulai tidur, menjaga tidur, atau kualitas tidur yang buruk sehingga mengalami kelelahan, mudah tersinggung dan kurang produktif keesokan harinya. Di Indonesia jumlah penderita insomnia sekitar 30 sampai 50 persen dari total penduduk Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pemberian Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) terhadap penurunan simptom- simptom insomnia pada penderita insomnia. Fokus penelitian ini untuk merubah pikiran irasional pada penderita insomnia, agar lebih rasional. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode Quasi Experiment dengan desain The One Group Pretest- Posttest Design. Insomnia diukur dengan menggunakan alat ukur yang telah diadaptasi dari Pittsburgh Insomnia Rating Scale dengan menggunakan metode translate re translate dengan subjek penderita insomnia. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terjadi perubahan insomnia yang ditandai dengan penurunan simptom-simptom insomnia pada subjek setelah diberikan intervensi berupa  Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Berdasarkan data tersebut, dapat ditarik simpulan bahwa pemberian Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) berpengaruh terhadap penurunan simptom-simptom insomnia pada penderita insomnia.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Chuan Yu ◽  
Hui Xue ◽  
Ying-xin Zhang ◽  
Jiying Zhou

Background. Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) is a common vestibular disorder. This study was conducted to assess whether the addition of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) could significantly improve the efficacy and acceptability of sertraline in treating PPPD. Methods. PPPD patients were recruited and randomly assigned to control and experiment groups. Patients in both groups received sertraline 50–200 mg/day, and only patients in the experiment group received CBT (twice a week, one hour per time). The treatment was continued for eight weeks. At baseline, week 2, week 4, and week 8, the 25-item Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS), and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) were used to assess the self-perceived handicapping effects caused by PPPD, anxiety, and depressive symptoms, respectively. The dose of sertraline used and the adverse events in both groups were recorded and analyzed. Results. In total, 91 PPPD patients were randomly assigned to the control group n=45 and experiment group n=46. After eight weeks of treatment, the average DHI scores, HDRS scores, and HARS scores were significantly decreased in both groups. But compared to the control group, the experiment group had significantly lower average DHI score, HDRS score, and HARS score at weeks 4 and 8. Moreover, the dose of sertraline used in the experiment group was significantly lower than that in the control group, and adverse events occurred more frequently in the control group than in the experiment group (48.9% versus 26.1%, p=0.025). Conclusion. These results demonstrated that the addition of CBT could significantly improve the efficacy and acceptability of sertraline in treating PPPD and reduce the dose of sertraline used.


Author(s):  
Annisa Warastri

A Child who has trouble with his peer group founded in any school, it’s starting from elementary school until senior high school.  But, mostly the problem with peer group more complicated happen in senior high school.  For example, in BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta Senior High School, the author found that many students whom also being a bullying victim, they could not accept her condition.  They have to obey the rule in their peer group even though they did not like it.  So in other words, these students have the low self-acceptance.   In this study, an author will use cognitive behavior therapy to increase student’s self-acceptance.  This study also aims to obtain some empirical data about how effective cognitive behavior therapy towards self-acceptance on the student in BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta Senior High School. This study used Quasi Experiment method with One Group Pretest – Posttest Design.  The subject of this study is two student who also is a bullying victim in BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta Senior High School.  The result of this study showed that after an intervention, the level of student’s self-acceptance was increased from low to medium, with the average changes in 35,1%, based on the result it can be concluded that cognitive behavior therapy was effective to increase the student’s self-acceptance in BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Emeliya Hardi ◽  
Desi Ermayulis ◽  
Masril Masril

The main problem in this study is the lack of self-control of students in class XI IPS SMAN 1 Batipuh. The purpose of this study was to see how much influence the group counseling approach to Cognitive Behavior Therapy to improve self-control of students of class XI IPS SMAN 1 Batipuh. This type of research is quantitative research using experimental methods. The design used in this study was pre-experimental design with the type of one group pretest-posttest design, namely by measuring the self-control of the experimental group students by using the same instrument in the pretest and posttest measurements. The population in this study were all students of class XI IPS SMAN 1 Batipuh, the sample in this study were 10 students who have low self-control. The results showed that cognitive behavior therapy approach group counseling had a significant effect on student self control. This can be seen based on the results of "t" count with df or db 9, with a significance level of 0.5% obtained that (16.8)> tt (1.83) can thus be interpreted that the cognitive behavior therapy approach group counseling influential significant to the self-control of students of class XI IPS at SMAN 1 Batipuh


Humaniora ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Putri Dewinta ◽  
Adhityawarman Menaldi

This research aimed to test the efficacy of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and psychoeducation methods to decrease anxiety level in arrhythmia patient. Besides that, it was also to discuss how CBT could reduce anxiety level on a subject who had Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and also had the medical disease. This research used the qualitative method. The subject in this research was a 22-years-old single female, called S (initials), who came to community health center (Puskesmas) to get help regarding her uncomfortable feelings about her thoughts and concerns. The subject was given a pre-post test using Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS) to see the differences in the anxiety level before, during, and after the treatment. Results of the research show that the level of anxiety in the subject is decreased. The categorization score goes from “very severe anxiety” to “moderate anxiety”. The subject also conveys on the last session that she feels less anxious and that she can control her negative thought.


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