Dr.Brooks seeks to account for the substance abuse of her therapy clients in terms of their abusive home environments,their limited sense of life purpose,and the altered functioning of their neurotransmitter systems.Dr.Brooks is most clearly using a(n)________ approach to understanding addictive behaviors.

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Dr. Brooks is taking a biopsychosocial approach because she is considering biological factors (neurotransmitter systems), psychological factors (sense of life purpose), and social/environmental factors (abusive home environments) in understanding addictive behaviors. The other options (behavioral, psychoanalytic, neural activation) do not fully encompass all three of these factors.

DrBrooks Seeks to Account for the Substance Abuse of Her