Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
December, 2013
Appetitive and Aversive Motivation in Depression
Appetitive and Aversive Motivation in Depression The constructs of appetitive and aversive motivation are central to behavioral theories of depression. Depression is viewed as associated with the activation of aversive motivation and/or a disruption of appetitive motivation, and the greater emphasis is on the disruption of appetitive motivation. Indeed, disruption of appetitive motivation is a […]
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a mechanism underlying substance abuse
Substance Abuse Major aspects of the literature on substance abuse fit particularly well with the motivational model. Although at one time it was argued that drug abuse could be attributed to physiological dependence per se, there has been a substantial move toward the view that ‘‘abuse of reinforcers’’ conveys the essence of drug abuse, either […]
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