Further training in drug related questions. First course.
Students will gain knowledge of psychiatric health work and they will be familiar with the historical development and the cultural basis of drug care. Students will also get the opportunity to become more aware of their communicative abilities and their ability to interact with other people.
The course has three main parts:
Part one: The human beeing, psychiatric deceases/drug addiction and the social environment (12 credits)
- psychiatric health care and the history of drug care
- different perspectives in philosophy of science and the perception of man, health and suffering
- political directions
- voluntary, self-help and user-related initiatives
- concepts: knowledge, power, health, quality of life, salutogenesis/relsiliance
- ethics
- psychology focusing self development and transference
- psychiatric deceases
- drug addiction
- simultaneous psychiatric and drug related deceases
- treatment in psychiatric health care and drug care
Part two: communication, interaction and conflict solving (9 credits)
- interaction and communication, relational knowledge and relational understanding
- multi-disciplinary work and multi-disciplinary collaboration
- handling conflicts
- professional supervision
Part three: drugs and drug abuse (9 credits)
- drugs and drug abuse
- addiction
- starting on drugs
- gender, family
- socialisation with peers and among youth
Lectures, training, seminars, supervision, assignments.
One written assignment. Group work. Six pages long.
80% participation in groups on supervision and reflection
80% participation in seminar on communication and interaction.
One written assignment on communication, interaction and conflict solving. Individual. Three pages.
One written examination. Weight: 50%.
One home examination. Weight: 50%.
The reading list will be presented at the start of term.