Assignment 3: Discussion Questions Your facilitator will guide you in the selection of two of the three discussion questions. Submit your responses to these questions to the appropriate Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Through the end of the module, comment on the responses of others. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources. You will be attempting two discussion questions in this module; each worth 28 points. The total number of points that can be earned for this assignment is 56. Group Sessions Group sessions are a common part of treating addiction, whether the sessions are clinical or support group in nature. On the basis of your knowledge on group sessions and group treatment, discuss the following:          What is your view of the value of group treatment? Support your answer with reasons.          Explain a situation in which group treatment would be contraindicated. Support your response with references, texts, articles, or experience. Evaluation Criteria for Discussion Question Response: Discussed your views on the value of group treatment. [4 points] Supported your answer with reasons. [4 points] Explained a situation in which group treatment would be contraindicated. [4 points] Supported your response with references, texts, articles, or experience. [4 points] The Family Component Addictions treatment programs often include a family component. In light of this statement, what do you think is the value of including the family in the treatment of addicts and alcoholics? Support your opinion with references, texts, articles, or experiences. Evaluation Criteria for Discussion Question Response: Discussed your views on the value of including the family in the treatment of addicts and alcoholics. [8 points] Supported your opinion with references, texts, articles, or experiences. [8 points] Support Group Activity Often treatment plans for alcoholics and addicts emphasize the need for ongoing support group activity and require that the clients attend 90 meetings in 90 days. Do you think 12-step groups are necessary in the treatment for alcoholics and addicts? Why or why not? Support your opinion with references, texts, articles, or experience. Evaluation Criteria for Discussion Question Response: Explained your views on whether 12-step groups are necessary in the treatment for alcoholics and addicts. [4 points] Shared reasons for your answer. [4 points] Supported your opinion with references, texts, articles, or experience. [8 points] Assignment 3 Grading Criteria Maximum Points Discussion Question Response: Please see specific evaluation criteria listed below each discussion question. 16 Discussion Participation: Participated in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with rationale, challenging a point of discussion, or making a relationship between one or more points of the discussion. 4 While responding, justifie.

1. Assignment 3: Discussion Questions
Your facilitator will guide you in the selection of two of the
three discussion questions. Submit your responses to these
questions to the appropriate Discussion Area by the due date
assigned. Through the end of the module, comment on the
responses of others.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules
for attributing sources.
You will be attempting two discussion questions in this module;
each worth 28 points. The total number of points that can be
earned for this assignment is 56.
Group Sessions
Group sessions are a common part of treating addiction, whether
the sessions are clinical or support group in nature.
On the basis of your knowledge on group sessions and group
treatment, discuss the following:
What is your view of the value of group treatment?
Support your answer with reasons.
Explain a situation in which group treatment would be
contraindicated. Support your response with references, texts,
articles, or experience.
Evaluation Criteria for Discussion Question Response:
Discussed your views on the value of group treatment. [4
points]
Supported your answer with reasons. [4 points]
Explained a situation in which group treatment would be
contraindicated. [4 points]
Supported your response with references, texts, articles, or
experience. [4 points]
The Family Component
Addictions treatment programs often include a family
component. In light of this statement, what do you think is the
value of including the family in the treatment of addicts and

2. alcoholics? Support your opinion with references, texts,
articles, or experiences.
Evaluation Criteria for Discussion Question Response:
Discussed your views on the value of including the family in the
treatment of addicts and alcoholics. [8 points]
Supported your opinion with references, texts, articles, or
experiences. [8 points]
Support Group Activity
Often treatment plans for alcoholics and addicts emphasize the
need for ongoing support group activity and require that the
clients attend 90 meetings in 90 days.
Do you think 12-step groups are necessary in the treatment for
alcoholics and addicts? Why or why not? Support your opinion
with references, texts, articles, or experience.
Evaluation Criteria for Discussion Question Response:
Explained your views on whether 12-step groups are necessary
in the treatment for alcoholics and addicts. [4 points]
Shared reasons for your answer. [4 points]
Supported your opinion with references, texts, articles, or
experience. [8 points]
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussion Question Response:
Please see specific evaluation criteria listed below each
discussion question.
16
Discussion Participation:
Participated in the discussion by asking a question, providing a
statement of clarification, providing a point of view with
rationale, challenging a point of discussion, or making a
relationship between one or more points of the discussion.

3. 4
While responding, justified ideas and responses by using
appropriate examples and references from texts, Web sites, and
other references or personal experience.
4
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated
ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of
sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
4
Total:
28
M6 Assignment 4 Submission
Due February 22 at 11:59 PM
Assignment 4: Course Project Task III: Discussion and Future
Recommendations
I have attached the literate review that was completed. In the
Discussion section, interpret and analyze how the Literature
Review relates to the problem addressed in your Introduction.
Organize your Discussion section so that it flows logically from
your Literature Review and the statement of problem in your
Introduction.
For your Discussion section:
Identify what you have found in the literature about
your chosen problem.
Sort through the relevant information, and synthesize it
into a concise but thorough discussion.
Summarize any relevant research findings from the
literature.
Follow APA guidelines for writing and citing text.
For finalizing your Discussion section, interpret, synthesize,
analyze the findings in your Literature Review, and address the
following:
Discuss how the literature relates to the problem you
identified.
Explain whether your Literature Review offers a new

4. way of looking at the problem or helps you understand the
problem in a way that you didn't before.
Does the literature identify further questions that need
to be studied? If yes what?
In the Future Recommendations section, summarize your
findings and make recommendations for future study. As with
the other sections, logically tie your Summary and Future
Recommendations to your Introduction, Literature Review, and
Discussion.
In writing your Summary, strongly support your findings.
Discuss whether future research is needed to address the
problem. If yes recommend a direction for the research. If no
provide reasons to support your answer.
Write your Discussion and Future Recommendations sections in
one- to two-pages in Microsoft Word document format. Name
your file M6_A4_LastName_CP_III.doc, and submit it to
the Submissions Area by the due date assigned. Follow APA
guidelines for writing and citing text.
You will receive feedback from your facilitator by the due date
assigned.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules
for attributing sources.
Assignment 4 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified what you have found in the literature about your
chosen problem.
4
Sorted through the relevant information and synthesized it into
a concise but thorough discussion.
8
Summarized any relevant research findings from the literature.
4
Discussed how the literature relates to the problem you
identified.
8
Explained whether your Literature Review offers a new way of

5. looking at the problem or helps you understand the problem in a
way that you didn't before.
8
Explained whether the literature identified further questions that
need to be studied.
8
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated
ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of
sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
4
Total:
44
Introduction and Literature Review: Minority Stress Determines
the Prevalence of Addiction to Substance Abuse among Young
Sexual Minorities.
Introduction
The question of whether sexual orientation can be equated to a
case of mental illness or just another perspective to sexuality
remains thorny. To the opponents of the possibility of a third
sexual orientation, human beings in their basic form as animals
should be straight. Nonetheless, many more people are coming
out to declare their “queer” sexual orientations (Plöderl &
Tremblay, 2015). In this regard, there is continued
stigmatization of the group that subscribes to the “unnatural”
tendencies. Particularly, there is systemic discrimination as well
as outright prejudice against sexual minorities.
As a result of the continued stigmatization, there are numerous
cases of minority stress which this group of people goes
through. Goldbach, Tanner-Smith, Bagwell & Dunlap (2014)
observed that the intensity of minority stress is directly
proportional to the relationship between the minorities and the
wider society. This is to say that increased despise, prejudice
and discrimination compounds the minority stress which later

6. morphs into depression. To exit the depression, at least
momentarily, members of this group resort to substance abuse
which later transforms into an addiction.
Problem
Discrimination and prejudice push sexual minorities into
loneliness, which culminates in depression. As earlier
explained, depression leaves the victims helpless and
susceptible to anything that will make them feel better, even
just for minutes. In essence, this is to say that the end result of
the minority stress is drug abuse and possible addiction. From
the foregoing, this article will focus on the relationship between
minority stress and substance abuse among sexual minorities. In
particular, the author will seek to examine the susceptibility of
young adults to the use of drugs in the face of minority stress.
Objective
The question of whether there is a link between the mental
stress and physical loneliness that sexual minorities go through
and the probability of them turning out to be chronic substance
abusers is the primary objective of this study. In addition, the
study will endeavor to investigate if this minority stress plays a
significant role in the rate at which members of this group
recover from episodes of mental illness.
Approach
In essence, this study will require non-numerical data that will
be collected via the observation method as well as surveys. As
such, the researcher will follow the qualitative approach. This
way, the study will collect qualitative data that is easy to
analyze. Further, the approach guarantees an objective point of
view of the problem through the experience of the victims.
Interviews, questionnaires and focus groups will spearhead the
information gathering process.
Literatures Review
Minorities as a topical issue transcends centuries. According to
Dench (2017), every open society has a group that makes the
smallest number of a population. Oftentimes, such a group is
underrepresented and often oppressed. Tomasi (2017) shared

7. Dench’s sentiments with the assertion that as society advances,
cases of cultural minorities abound. Interestingly, there seems
to be a common trend among the minorities which is that they
get more isolated as the surrounding society narrative deepens
into despise and possible hatred for the particular aspects that
define the minority groups.
However, Galupo, Davis, Grynkiewicz & Mitchell (2014) noted
that sexual minorities are a new minority group is gaining
currency. Interestingly, the topic of sexual minorities is getting
more amplified as more people come out of hiding to declare
their “unnatural” sexual preferences. Further, society is getting
much divided as governments move to legitimize the minorities
hence giving them the platform to advance their rights.
However, the recognition is seemingly not enough as
discrimination against sexual minorities is only going up. Also,
the type of discrimination that this group is constantly coming
in contact with is evolving (Woodford, Han, Craig, Lim &
Matney, 2014).
As a result of the discrimination, members of this group are
increasing encountering episodes of minority stress. According
to Plöderl & Tremblay (2015), minority stress is the single most
prevalent cause of mental health issues among sexual
minorities. For instance, a young homosexual man in college is
more likely to face discrimination if he comes out clearly about
the orientation. Subsequently, the young man is quite likely to
slide into depression. Hatzenbuehler, Bellatorre, Lee, Finch,
Muennig & Fiscella (2014) wrote that the structural stigma that
results in depression often eggs the victims on into substance
abuse. As their bodies get conditioned to the substances, it
becomes difficult for the minorities to unhook themselves from
the addiction. Eventually, the vicious cycle of depression and
substance addiction throws the victims into the deeper end of
mental illness that eventually terminates at death. From the
foregoing, one can safely conclude that minority stress has a
great influence on substance abuse. Interestingly, the link
between the two is a mental illness that asserts itself through

8. depression.
References
Dench, G. (2017). Minorities in an Open Society. Routledge.
Galupo, M. P., Davis, K. S., Grynkiewicz, A. L., & Mitchell, R.
C. (2014). Conceptualization of sexual orientation identity
among sexual minorities: Patterns across sexual and gender
identity. Journal of Bisexuality, 14(3-4), 433-456.
Goldbach, J. T., Tanner-Smith, E. E., Bagwell, M., & Dunlap,
S. (2014). Minority stress and substance use in sexual minority
adolescents: A meta-analysis. Prevention Science, 15(3), 350-
363.
Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Bellatorre, A., Lee, Y., Finch, B. K.,
Muennig, P., & Fiscella, K. (2014). Structural stigma and all-
cause mortality in sexual minority populations. Social Science
& Medicine, 103, 33-41.
Plöderl, M., & Tremblay, P. (2015). Mental health of sexual
minorities. A systematic review. International review of
psychiatry, 27(5), 367-385.
Tomasi, J. (2017). Kymlicka, liberalism, and respect for cultural
minorities. In Indigenous Rights (pp. 123-146). Routledge.
Woodford, M. R., Han, Y., Craig, S., Lim, C., & Matney, M. M.
(2014). Discrimination and mental health among sexual
minority college students: The type and form of discrimination
does matter. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 18(2),
142-163.