PSY5019 · Addiction and recovery

Overview

This unit explores lived and living experiences of addiction and recovery. You will consider the ways in which substance and behavioural addictions can impact individuals, families and communities, and the impact of dominant discourses and frameworks. Approaches to holistic care and wellbeing will be considered alongside insights into the intersect between addiction and co-occurring mental ill-health. Developing your skills in reflective and trauma informed practices will equip you with an understanding of how to support people across diverse contexts and potential next steps when more intensive interventions are required.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Analyse how policies and perspectives inform responses to, and treatment for, addiction.
2. Identify unique practice opportunities and challenges when supporting individuals and/or families with co-occurring mental health and addiction concerns.
3. Identify culturally safe and trauma informed screening tools.
4. Apply skills to deliver an evidence-informed person-centred brief intervention matched to the individual.
5. Employ reflective practice to cultivate sensitivity and ethical responsiveness in addressing addiction-related challenges.

Workload

You should expect to spend 20-24 hours per week on this unit to achieve the learning outcomes: • 5-6 hours self-directed learning journeys • 4-5 hours readings or activities • 7-8 hours skills-based assessment tasks Each week there will be an optional Zoom session

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.