Mental Health III – Behavioral Health

Catalog description

This course provides the basis for advanced knowledge of behavioral health issues, including assessment and treatment guidelines to diagnose, manage and treat adults and adolescents experiencing a range of substance use and addiction disorders. This course broadly covers the research and theories about addiction, including etiology, epidemiology, genetics, pharmacology, and neurobehavior. Students explore the basic concepts of substance use and addiction disorders to understand how to develop differential diagnoses, apply evidence-based standards of care, and apply health promotion and social determinants of health lens to treat simple to complex substance use and addiction disorders across the lifespan.