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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department for Health (administered by the Learning Partnerships Office) |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 at Action on Addiction |
| Assessment:
| CW100 |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: This unit will critically examine current models of relapse prevention including Marlatt's Cognitive Behavioural and Gorski's biopsychosocial models. It will enable students to explore their own beliefs about the nature of relapse and to implement these models in their settings. Learning Outcomes: At the end of this unit, students will be able to: * Understand relapse as a process as well as an event * Contrast Marlatt's model of relapse with Gorski's Warning Signs approach * Analyse how theories of relapse can be applied to clinical practice * Critically evaluate a programme of Relapse Prevention * Apply Relapse Prevention strategies with individuals and groups of clients. Skills: Intellectual Skills * Analysing how theories of relapse can be applied to clinical practice [T/A] * Evaluating research evidence [T/A] Professional Skills * Assessing high-risk situations [T/A] * Helping clients identify and respond more effectively to high-risk situations [T/A] * Identifying and managing relapse warning signs [T/A] Practical Skills * Designing and implementing a relapse prevention program in an addictions setting [T/A] Key Skills * Using IT to find, communicate and manage information [T] * Essay writing [TA]. Content: This unit is concerned with the development of the necessary knowledge, skills and techniques required to design and implement a comprehensive relapse prevention program within an addictions setting. Supporting the practical element of this module is the associated research evidence which underpins the techniques used in the above process. Students use this information to inform and develop their clinical practice within their workplace. |
| Programme availability: |
LP20627 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Programmes administered by the Learning Partnerships Office
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