This course is designed to provide students with basic information regarding common drugs and processes of abuse. Furthermore, it’s designed to give students some hands-on tools for analyzing addiction as a complex bio-psychosocial phenomena. This includes an introduction to rubrics and schemata such as the Substance Use Continuum, the Trans-Theoretical Model of Change, The Four Cs of Addiction, The Three Circles Approach to Sexual Sobriety and others. Lastly, Fundamentals of Addiction is designed to acquaint students with the addictions treatment best practices that are based on contemporary empirical evidence.
This course is designed to give students an overview of several fundamental concepts in psychology. The purpose is to give students the knowledge and understanding of psychological concepts that can be applied to their chosen field of study. This course provides an introduction to the principles of psychology including altered states of consciousness, memory, motivation, development, psychology.
Relapse Prevention is designed to give students a broad overview of the various ways relapse prevention can be approached by addictions professionals. It builds on the values platform students started to build in Fundamentals of Addiction module with regard to their personal beliefs about addiction etiology and addiction models.
Secondary traumatic stress is also known as burnout, compassion fatigue, or vicarious traumatization. Helping professionals who work with traumatized individuals are at risk of developing secondary traumatic stress. The very qualities that led workers to social service employment- compassion and empathy- are the ones that make workers particularly vulnerable to secondary traumatic stress.
Administrator
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Addictions and Community Support Worker (ACSW)
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