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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the nature, etiology and treatment of addictions. It will primarily focus on alcohol but will also address other chemical and physiological substances as well. The course will consider the bio-psycho-social nature of abuse and dependence. We will consider the Twelve Step treatment tradition with its spiritual component as well as other treatment approaches to the addictive process.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of the ways in which groups can bring clients together to support, challenge, and create meaningful connections with each other. Through mutual aid, which privileges the group members? voices and innate skills as the natural and most potent resource for support and change, group members can learn the skills that will enable them to improve the relationships in their lives, be more empowered as individuals and community members, and mobilize for social change. Students will concurrently build theoretical and skills-based knowledge and will practice and reflect on various techniques that will enable them to facilitate groups in a wide array of settings across client populations. Facilitation of a group in the field or regular access to observing a group in the field is required. This course meets the requirement for a clinical practice elective for those who began the program before Summer 2008.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the major areas of adolescent development including interpersonal and contextual changes and behaviors. The course will focus on developmental issues faced by adolescents and topics will include identity development, risk-taking behavior, psychosocial adjustment, delinquency, substance use/abuse, depression and suicidality, psychological disorders, resilience and protective factors. Normal adolescent development. Attention will also be given to identifying and developing the skills necessary to engage youth and their families at various levels of practice by critically examining the influences of community, government, and society as well as the implications for prevention & intervention programs for adolescents. This course meets the requirement for a clinical practice elective.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the important influences of early and later attachment relationships on one's cognitive, emotional, relational, and neurobiological development. It looks at the ways that interpersonal, community, and cultural connections serve critical neurobiological functions in regulating a person's sense of security and containment, and capacities to act on her strengths. The class examines contemporary research in attachment theory, interpersonal communication, and brain development to understand many clients' presenting symptoms as products of their having had to adapt to chronic extreme stress with limited essential relational and community resources. Students look through a lens of interpersonal neurobiology at common child and adult symptoms of post-traumatic stress related learning difficulties,anxiety, and depression; dysregulation of behaviors associated with violence and addiction; and difficulties negotiating relationships. They learn about the brain's ability to change throughout one's life and specific individual and community interventions that promote these changes. Students support each other in actively applying their attachment roles as neurobiological facilitators of their clients' capacities to build more integrated strength-based personal narratives, and to act on the naturally accompanying regulation of behaviors.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will explore ways of using psychodynamic theory to inform work with individual adults within the matrix of social work values and interest in context, diversity and social justice. Psychodynamic theory offers rich and complex ways of understanding human behavior and interaction. It is useful in many clinical settings - in brief encounters as well as long-term work. It can be an aid in building strong relationships with clients and a means of understanding and managing one?s own reactions to different clients. This course will offer a review of recent developments and trends in psychodynamic theory. We will discuss psychodynamic formulation and consider key concepts in treatment such as transference, countertransference, enactment, working through and affect. We will look at psychodynamic approaches to trauma, crises and desperate situations and the unique aspects of dynamic work with people stressed by poverty. The class will employ a seminar format with lectures and class discussion of readings. Students? cases will be used to show the application of these ideas and students will be expected to present their clinical work. The major assignment will involve in-depth research into a clinical concept (of the student?s choosing) and a discussion of the application of this concept to one or more of the student?s cases. Wednesday mornings, 8:30-10:30, taught by Ruth Dean. Please write to ruth.dean@simmons.edu for questions. This course meets the requirement for a clinical practice elective.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the connection between severe and persistent mental illness and drug use. About one-third of adults with a mental disorder, also have a co-occurring substance use disorder. The course will focus on: 1) those with pre-existing mental disorders, and 2) those whose mental disorders are substance induced. Concurrently, the course will examine how drug use can aggravate a mental illness or mask it. We will examine biological underpinnings of addiction and mental illness and how heredity/environmental factors promote and sustain substance dependence. The course will examine the various treatment models, including psychopharmacology, and the obstacles to treatment including stigma of addiction/mental illness and the reduction of inpatient facilities and day treatment programs that traditionally provide addiction services.
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