PSY 437 Addiction Interventions
This course focuses on addictive behaviors, including the etiology, assessment, and treatment of alcohol and substance use disorders, as well as risk prevention and factors and dual diagnoses, applying this understanding to the profession of health service psychology. Non-substance addictive behaviors will also be explored, such as eating, shopping, and gambling disorders, as well as sexual addiction. In this course, biological and social aspects of addictive behavior are integrated so that students obtain an advanced knowledge in scientific psychology. Experiential training is used via mock therapy sessions to help students develop intervention skills for addictions. This course material fulfills the BOP requirement for Training in Alcoholism/Chemical Dependency Detection and Treatment.
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PSY