Tests of the Attachment and Clinical Issues Questionnaire as It Applies to Alcohol Dependence

• DOI: 10.1097/adm.0000000000000131
• Publication Date: 2015-05-14T15:24:56Z
• Authors: Marc A. Lindberg; April Fugett; Joshua E. Carter
• Keywords: Research Domain Criteria; Alcohol Dependence; Blame; Alcohol abuse

Although many major theories tie the addictions to specific pathways and neurochemical systems evolutionarily implicated in food social behavioral systems, there is a paucity of instruments from psychological level that can measure these important attachment, social, emotional counterparts. Two studies were designed examine whether Attachment Clinical Issues Questionnaire (ACIQ) could help fill this limitation measurement.In study 1, ACIQ was given patients substance abuse unit control participants funneled match larger population. To address issue their hypothesized tendency blame everything on past experiences, 2 tested above results would be replicated with high school students predicted develop alcohol dependence.In patient population, significant differences found attachment clinical scales directions. In 2, students, central predictions again confirmed different but interesting developmental differences.The using populations definitions dependence converged similar results. The robust battery for measuring issues displayed by both only dependence. further discussed terms how they move us toward Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approaches diagnosis treatment, paying attention individual attachments, issues.