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Mental Health and Substance Use (PSYT90085)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 2
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The subject will provide an introduction to the area of substance abuse – definitions, classification systems, and epidemiology. It will cover the major substances of absue including alcohol and other central nervous system depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens. The interface between the substance use disorder and mental health, and the issue of “dual diagnosis”, that is the co-occurrence of serious mental illness and substance use disorder, will be a major focus.
Intended learning outcomes
- This subject seeks to develop the knowledge, values, attitudes and skills of students to ensure improved service access, and the delivery of high quality co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders responses.
- The subject will provide students with an overview of comorbid substance use and serious mental illness within the context of contemporary mental health and drug and alcohol service delivery and treatment. People with co-occurring conditions tend to have complex care needs that require a holistic, person-centred approach to care with increased focus on integrated service delivery.
- Epidemiology, aetiology, and risk factors, interactions, diagnosis, formulation and integrated treatment are considered in the assessment, treatment, and management of co-occurring conditions.
- Specifically, examples of complex cases in young adults are used to critique treatment issues relevant for this population, given the high prevalence of comorbidity of alcohol and other drug use and serious mental illness among this cohort of the population.
Generic skills
- Outline international, national and local policy and legislative frameworks for co-occurring disorders.
- Compare and contrast the existing co-occurring disorders models of treatment.
- Define and analyse the complexities associated with co-occurring disorders.
- Construct an integrated treatment plan that draws from the screening, assessment, diagnosis, formulation of an individual who has co-occurring disorders.
Last updated: 3 November 2022