School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Addiction Studies: Intervention Initiatives
  • Unit Code

    ADS2356
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Jason BRIGHT

Description

This unit examines a range of intervention initiatives for alcohol and other drug-related problems. Themes addressed include motivational interviewing, brief intervention, diversion programs, pharmacotherapies, and overdose responses. An evidence-based approach is adopted in considering the effectiveness of interventions.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ADS2253

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Articulate the principles of diversion programs.
  2. Demonstrate a knowledge of the principles of brief intervention and describe the major components of brief intervention programs.
  3. Describe the principles of pharmacotherapies.
  4. Explain the importance of motivation in behaviour change and the application of motivational interviewing as an intervention.

Unit Content

  1. Harm reduction strategies and overdose.
  2. Diversion programs and cultural issues.
  3. Pharmacotherapies.
  4. Motivational interviewing and it's clinical applications.
  5. Brief intervention strategies.
  6. Screening, assessment, and levels of intervention.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive and contain a range of lecture, tutorial and practical discussion activities. Lectures are used to introduce the central concepts of the unit and to guide students through the literature. Students have the opportunity to research concepts, present ideas orally, discuss situations in groups and to develop critical perspectives from written sources. Online students will access eLearning materials via Blackboard. Students are expected to login and participate in collaborative discussion activities during specific weeks. Students are encouraged to think critically to evaluate clinical problems and engage with peers to discuss situations, analyse literature and to develop critical perspectives from written sources.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentEssay20%
AssignmentReport40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentEssay20%
AssignmentReport40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Addiction Studies: Intervention Initiatives
  • Unit Code

    ADS2356
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Jason BRIGHT

Description

This unit examines a range of intervention initiatives for alcohol and other drug-related problems. Themes addressed include motivational interviewing, brief intervention, diversion programs, pharmacotherapies, and overdose responses. An evidence-based approach is adopted in considering the effectiveness of interventions.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ADS2253

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Articulate the principles of diversion programs.
  2. Demonstrate a knowledge of the principles of brief intervention and describe the major components of brief intervention programs.
  3. Describe the principles of pharmacotherapies.
  4. Explain the importance of motivation in behaviour change and the application of motivational interviewing as an intervention.

Unit Content

  1. Harm reduction strategies and overdose.
  2. Diversion programs and cultural issues.
  3. Pharmacotherapies.
  4. Motivational interviewing and it's clinical applications.
  5. Brief intervention strategies.
  6. Screening, assessment, and levels of intervention.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive and contain a range of lecture, tutorial and practical discussion activities. Lectures are used to introduce the central concepts of the unit and to guide students through the literature. Students have the opportunity to research concepts, present ideas orally, discuss situations in groups and to develop critical perspectives from written sources. Online students will access eLearning materials via Blackboard. Students are expected to login and participate in collaborative discussion activities during specific weeks. Students are encouraged to think critically to evaluate clinical problems and engage with peers to discuss situations, analyse literature and to develop critical perspectives from written sources.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentEssay20%
AssignmentReport40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentEssay20%
AssignmentReport40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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