Fundamentals of Psychoactive Substances and Process Addictions (RPS_032)
About Study Course
Objective
To ensure the acquisition of knowledge about the symptoms, course, therapy and prevention of mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances, in order to be able to diagnose and treat them. Emphasis on psychoactive substances and process addiction.
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 use anamnesis, diagnose addiction and make differential diagnosis; to identify the psychoactive substance that caused the detected mental disorders; provide emergency narcological assistance; motivate the patient to absent from drug use; 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.
