Addiction & Co-Existing Conditions: Intensive

Course overview

Available by home study, and online course (live online broadcast and live seminar by arrangement). What is the most common co-existing condition among those with psychoactive substance use disorders? How does one distinguish between blackouts and dissociation? When is it confabulation or memory failure due to intoxication? What are the specifics in evaluating and treating depression or anxiety with substance involved patients? Using current literature this program overviews incidence and prevalence, and contraindications for treatment where psychoactive substance use disorders are co-present with mental and nervous disorders. Specifically, the class will include the DSM-IV criteria for determining diagnosis, various statistics on addictions clients that may present with co-existing disorders, and information concerning the concomitance, co occurrence, and co-morbidity of these disorders in the addictions population. The class will cover mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, psychotic disorders and other problems that present in the addictions population. For detailed objectives and agenda visit us at www.programservices.org