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Available Online Courses
Addictions Studies 761 Case Management for Substance Abuse Treatment
Addictions Studies 762 Diversity and Special Issues in Substance Abuse
Addictions Studies 763 Sexually Transmitted Disease and Other Medical Illnesses and Drug Abuse
Addictions Studies 764 Psychopharmacology of Drug Abuse
Addictions Studies 765 Psychopharmacology of Mental Illness and Dual Diagnoses –
Causes and Treatments
Case Management for Substance Abuse Treatment (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: Minimum 15 credit hours of graduate level courses in addictions studies or psychology.
Course Description: This graduate-level course examines the role and function of the case manager in substance abuse treatment. The topics to be covered in this course include the definitions and functions of case management, history and development of case management, various models of case management currently used in substance abuse treatment, ethical and legal aspects of case management, meeting clients and assessing their strengths and needs, developing a treatment plan, record keeping and report writing, and monitoring services and following the client until the termination of treatment.
Course Outcomes:
After completing this course, students are expected to be able to:
- Develop an understanding of the significance of effective case management.
- Learn definitions and functions of case management as they apply to substance abuse treatment.
- Develop the skills and ability to follow client from intake to termination of treatment.
- Become familiar with addiction specific and non-addiction specific support network available to the client.
- Communicate effectively on the progress of their clients, within the parameters of legal and ethical protocols.
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Diversity and Special Issues in Substance Abuse (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: Minimum 12 credit hours of graduate level courses in addictions studies or psychology.
Course Description: This graduate-level course examines the issues of diversity in substance abuse population and prepares the students to work more effectively with individuals from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds struggling with alcohol and drug dependence. The following topics will be addressed and analyzed: theory and meaning of diversity in the context of addictions, race and ethnicity including African-Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Sexual orientation and diversity in substance abuse population will also be examined. Finally, this course will provide a comprehensive overview of the theory and research regarding diversity issues in addiction treatment.
Course Outcomes:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe, analyze, and assess theoretical concepts and fundamental research in diversity and special issues in substance abuse.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history of prominent ethnic groups in North America and the relationship of that history to substance use and abuse, access to care, and health issues related to substance use.
- Appraise and reflect on issues of integrating diversity into addiction treatment.
- Develop and apply culture-centric approaches to substance abuse treatment.
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Sexually Transmitted Disease and Other Medical Illnesses and Drug Abuse (4 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: Minimum 12 credit hours of graduate level courses in addictions studies or psychology.
Course Description: This graduate-level course examines the different sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) including chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and trichomonas (the four most common) along with genital herpes, genital warts, hepatitis A, B, C and D, and HIV/AIDS. About 85% of all STDs occur in people between the ages of 15 and 30. Almost half of all teenagers who are very sexually active have had chlamydia; the fastest-spreading STD. The increased risk of STDs, including HIV disease, due to lowered inhibitions or trading sex for drugs is all too common among the drug-abusing population. One thing to remember about STDs is the delayed incubation period before symptoms appear. This allows the disease to be unknowingly transmitted to others. This course looks critically at how individuals of different races, ages and gender and sexual orientation who are substance abusers can prevent as well how they acquire, spread and cope with triple combined diseases-STD, mental illnesses as well as substance abuse. Emphasis on the different research in this field of study, with available categories of interventions for those individuals with these conditions.
Course Outcomes:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand different types of sexually transmitted diseases their mode of acquisition especially in substance abusers;
- Understand the different resources available to the substance abusers to help these individuals.
- Understand the different levels of intervention and preventions available to these individuals. Student will understand
- The epidemiological research and use by private and governmental agencies for the purpose of helping the community ravaged by HIV/AIDs and Hepatitis C and drug abuser.
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Psychopharmacology of Drug Abuse (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: Minimum 12 credit hours of graduate level courses in addictions studies or psychology.
Course Description: This graduate level course teaches that an important psychological disorder is substance abuse. It causes many health and social problems. This course emphasizes the fact that it is treatable.
Addresses current issues in the treatment of substance abuse which include:
- The rapidly expanding use of medications for detoxification, withdrawal, and long-term abstinence;
- The use of sophisticated brain-imaging techniques to study brain function;
- The creation of more effective tools to diagnose addiction and match clients to the most effective treatment;
- an increased use of evidence based practices; increasing utilization of drug courts and coerced treatment;
- The lack of sufficient treatment resources and the conflict between an abstinence-oriented approach and a harm-reduction
- approach.
- The emphasis only cost effectiveness of treatment plans;
- The emphasis on parameters of treatment effectiveness related to duration, type of therapy, customization for culture, gender,
- ethnic origin, and other specialized populations.
- Examines the principles and goals of treatment,
- The different treatment options available,
- The continuum of treatment (detoxification, initial abstinence, long-term abstinence, and recovery),
- Individual/group therapy,
- Involvement of the family,
- Adjunctive treatment services,
- Drug specific treatments, and
- Target populations.
- Examines in detail, topics such as motivational interviewing, stages of change model, treatment in prisons, intervention strategies, and obstacles to effective treatment.
- This course also examines medical intervention developments in detail including medications already approved, medications in development, and the new drug development process.
Course Outcome:
After completing this course, students are expected to be able to understand:
- Use of Neuroimaging techniques used in diagnosis and follow up
- The different classes of drug and modes of abuse.
- The seven aspects of chemical and behavioral dependency treatment which dominate research, clinical practice, and discussion.
- The mechanisms of the rapidly expanding number of medications are used to treat detoxification and withdrawal, reduce craving, and promote abstinence.
- The increasing the use of brain imaging and other new diagnostic techniques, e.g., CAT, MRI, fMRI, PET, SPECT.
- Understand the research on coercive treatment (e.g., drug courts) vs. voluntary treatment and the decrease in treatment facilitiesand resources.
- The conflict between abstinence-oriented recovery and harm reduction
- Treatment outcomes for drug and alcohol abuse can result in long-term abstinence along with health, social, and spiritual benefits.
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Psychopharmacology of Mental Illness and Dual Diagnoses -
Causes and Treatments (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: Minimum 12 credit hours of graduate level courses in addictions studies or psychology.
Course Description: This graduate-level course examines:
- The prevalence of coexisting substance misuse/abuse and psychiatric disorder (dual diagnosis, co-morbidity)
- How dual diagnosis has increased over the past decade, and why it will continue to rise;
- Recent developments in the pharmacological treatment of alcohol, opiate and nicotine misuse/abuse.
- The evidence on the use of some of these treatments in dual diagnosis (with psychotic, mood and anxiety disorders).
- Evidence based information and its limitations by the exclusion of mental illness when pharmacological agents for substance misuse/abuse are evaluated and vice versa.
- Examines the set available information within the context of the psychosocial management of co-morbid substance misuse/abuse and mental illness, within the framework for service delivery recommended by USA national policy.
Course Outcome: After completing this course, students are expected to be able to:
- Understand the goals and components of substance abuse treatment with patients with a coexisting mental illness.
- Understand critical treatment issues and general assessment issues in providing care to patients with dual disorders.
- Understand the disorders that account for the majority of psychiatric problems seen in patients with dual disorders, including:
- Mood Disorders;
- Anxiety Disorders;
- Personality Disorders; and
- Psychotic Disorders.
- Become familiar with the types of medications used in psychiatry and addiction medicine and for patients with dual disorders.
- Recognize interactions between co-existing mental health, substance use, and other health care issues.
- Utilize relevant screening and assessment instruments.
- Engage the individual and support system in a comprehensive treatment planning process as well as use collaboratively identifyand prioritize treatment needs with the individual and support system.
- Access, coordinate, and facilitate appropriate referrals which maximize treatment and recovery opportunities in partnership with the person served. Monitor, evaluate, and advocate within the service delivery system to ensure client access to necessary services. Assist the client in navigating the service delivery system effectively communicating their recovery needs.
- Educate the person and the support system about available self-help and peer groups in the recovery process. Educate the person and support system about self-advocacy and empowerment. Educate society about the relationship between mental health and substance use.
- Follow appropriate policies and procedures by adhering to laws and regulations regarding substance use and mental health treatment as they relate to integrated care.
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Cost per graduate credit via online courses and individualized curricula………………………$450 per credit
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