Integrated Approaches to Addiction and Mental Health Work
| Course Code | AMHW-103 |
|---|---|
| Lecture hours per week | 3 |
| Lab hours per week | 3 |
| Course Availability | Open |
| Description | In this foundation course, learners will begin to link theory with practice in addiction and mental health work, demonstrating that how we understand addiction and mental health determines how we will respond to it. Learners will learn to engage in a reflexive process to understand 'theories' of addiction and mental health, and will use this self-reflection as a starting point to develop ways of knowing and doing to working with individuals, families and communities. Learners will describe and contrast these theories through the lens of anti-oppressive practice (AOP), anti-colonial and critical race theoretical perspective. In the second half of the course, learners will apply their self-reflection and learning to encompass a holistic theory of addiction and mental health that considers biological, psychological, social (which includes cultural and spiritual dimensions), and structural factors. By the end of the course, learners will be able to position addiction and mental health concerns within a number of intersecting causes and influences, with a range of individual, social and social-structural interventions and possible responses. |