Additive Behaviors and Dependencies

Recommended Prerequisites

Non existent.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods includes expository methods, active methodologies and tutorial guidance. Active methodologies include the study of clinical cases (clinical vignettes), the observation of videos and role-playing exercises for the development of specific skills associated with diagnosis, prevention and psychotherapeutic processes.

Learning Outcomes

Conceptually students should know at the end of the course the main “comprehensive and explanatory” models of addictive and dependencies disorders (including clinical and psychosocial implications as borderline, antisocial and psychopathic disorders), and neuropsychological, public health, psychosocial and sociocultural models. In terms of competences, students should, at the end of the course, know how to make a psychopathological diagnosis (considering the main behavioral disorders under study) and be able to make clinical guidance, considering psychotherapeutic and rehabilitation interventions (including therapeutic communities for substance addiction). Students must also develop the necessary skills for the scientific study of these issues.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Substances addiction and dependency

1.1 Historical and main phenomelogical analysis models (legal and moral, medical and public health, psychosocial and sociocultural). Main concepts about addiction and dependency.

1.2 Psychopathology of addiction and dependence

1.3 Dynamic Theories, Behavior Theories, and Learning Theories about Addiction and Dependencies

1.4 Neuroscience of Addiction and dependency

1.5 Addiction and identitity: psychosocial construction of deviant identities (families and peer groups in psychosocial construction of deviant identities)

1.6 Substances addiction and antisocial behavior (psycho criminological, bio criminological and social criminological theories)

1.7 Substances addiction and Psychopathy

1.8 Prevention

1.9 Therapeutic and rehabilitation models (therapeutic communities)

2. Game, Internet and Sex addiction

3. Current problems in addiction research.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Browne, M. & Rocklof, M.J. (2019). Measuring Behavioural Dependence in Gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, (published online: 27 November 2019)

Emmett, D., & Nice, G. (2006). Understanding Street Drugs: A Handbook of Substance Misuse for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley.

Griffiths, M. (2001). Sex on the Internet: Observations and implications for Internet sex addiction. The Journal of Sex Research, 38 (4), 333-342 DOI: 10.1080 / 00224490109552104

Herron, A., & Brennan, T.K.  (2019). ASAM Essentials of Addiction Medicine. New York: Wolters Kluwer

Paixão, R. (2002). Manual de Psicopatologia da Adolescência. Coimbra: FPCE-UC

Perkinson, R., Jongsma, E., & Bruce, J. (2014). The Addiction Treatment Planner. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Vanderplasschen, W., Vandevelde, S. & Broekaert, E. (2014). Therapeutic communities for treating addictions in Europe. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.