SW 687 - Addiction: A Chronic Neurobiological Health Disorder

3 Credit(s)

This course focuses on addictions as a major neurobiological health disorder. The course covers the history of addictions, stigma associated with addictions, and underlying causes of the use of addictive substances. The DSM 5 will be used to examine a range of addictive substances and the criteria required to make substance use disorders and substance induced disorders diagnoses. The emphasis is to consider addictions as a chronic brain based disorder with neurobiological and social consequences to individuals, families, and communities. Evidence-based practices will be applied in psychopharmacology treatments and biopsychosocial treatment modalities. Avenues of certification in addictions will be explored in the course.
Prerequisite(s): SW 502 and SW 505