Postmodern Approaches to Addiction Treatment

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This specialized course is designed to provide students with a diverse understanding of the practical applications of postmodern therapeutic approaches as they are applied to the treatment of addiction. This course will contrast and compare traditional treatment modalities with postmodern approaches such as: solution-focused brief therapy, the collaborative language systems approach and narrative therapy. This course will also ask the student to consider the philosophical underpinnings of postmodern theory and practice. This course is designed to address the needs of students with no prior addiction treatment training as well as provide appropriately challenging coursework that will offer upper division scholarship for an advanced education in addiction studies.