Dual (Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Diagnoses (RPS_030)
About Study Course
Objective
To ensure the acquisition of knowledge about mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances symptomatology, course therapy and prevention in order to be able to diagnose and treat them.
Learning outcomes
1.Knowledge of the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course and basic principles of treatment of mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances; prevention of diseases and disorders; classification of psychoactive substances; the basic principles of creating a motivational conversation.
1.Skills to collect drug anamnesis, diagnose addiction and perform differential diagnosis; to identify the psychoactive substance that caused the identified mental disorders; provide emergency narcology assistance; motivate the patient to develop abstinence; explain the need for preventive measures; explain the consequences of using psychoactive substances in an understandable way to the patient; draw up a treatment plan.
1.Competences to choose an appropriate investigation plan for establishing a diagnosis, order examinations; correctly diagnose narcological diseases; evaluates the impact of the addiction disease on the state of health; determine treatment according to evidence-based practice; to provide information about the diagnosis and treatment options of the addiction disease to the patient and his relatives; to create a motivating conversation with a patient with an addiction disease; participate in a multiprofessional team.
