CQUniversity - Understanding Addiction
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Understanding Addiction at FutureLearn Overview
Understanding Addiction
at FutureLearn
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Understanding Addiction
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Understanding Addiction at FutureLearn Highlights
Understanding Addiction
at FutureLearn
- Learn to Identify the key components of substance addiction.
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
Understanding Addiction at FutureLearn Course details
Understanding Addiction
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More about this course
- On this six-week course, you will discover how an understanding of the complex science of addiction can improve a patients quality of care.
- You will identify the dominant models and theories of addiction and explore how they can impact intervention responses and treatment of a patient.
- Guided by the experts at CQUniversity School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Sciences, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of addiction as a disease to help you provide better and more effective care for your patients.
- You will learn to describe the key components of a good scientific theory, to determine the best models to follow to develop effective treatment responses.
- With an understanding of the science of drug and alcohol addiction, you will also explore its societal and cultural impacts. This appreciation of the effects of addiction will help you identify routes to help reduce the toll on individuals, families, and society.
- Once you have outlined the different models of addiction, you will identify how these can inform both prevention and treatment interventions.
- You will also explore psychopathology in the context of addiction, to understand how it can be studied as a mental disorder to provide more bespoke treatment.
- By the end of the course, you will have a deeper understanding of your role as a health professional and how to improve the quality of care for your patients with addiction.
Understanding Addiction at FutureLearn Curriculum
Understanding Addiction
at FutureLearn
Introduction to Addiction
Introduction
Recreational Drugs
Prescribed Drugs
Illicit Drugs
Wrap Up
Understanding Addiction
Introduction
What is Addiction
Tolerance &; Withdrawal
Week two wrap up
Models of Addiction
Introduction
Models of addiction
Week three wrap up
Harm Reduction
Introduction to harm reduction
Evidence-based harm reduction interventions
Week four wrap up
Assessment
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