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Psychology and Substance Abuse

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Pick a psychological construct that both interests you and applies to your specialty area of substance abuse

1. Why is it important to the practicing psychology professional to precisely measure this variable in practice?

2. What are the alternatives to measurement when working with this psychological construct?

3. What are the strengths and weaknesses specific to measuring this psychological construct?

4. Why is it important to employ norms when interpreting measurement of this psychological construct?

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This solution of 267 words discusses the relation of psychology to substance abuse and touches on topics such as measuring variables, psychological constructs, strengths, weaknesses and using norms.

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