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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2021 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- AD 103
- Course Title:
- Women and Addiction
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Describe gender-specific treatment options, interventions and processes for women and non-binary populations.
- Articulate strategies for incorporating trauma and wellness-informed services including medication-assisted treatment into the counseling process specific to women and non-binary populations.
- Articulate strategies for working through countertransference when working with women and non-binary populations.
- Use cultural humility when working with women and non-binary populations.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
1. Apply information on women and addiction to tasks such as interviewing a staff member at
an alcohol and drug treatment center specializing in treatment services for women.
2. Document attendance at a minimum of two self-help meetings, including
one Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of community resources for women.
4. Integrate knowledge of women’s needs and barriers to addiction treatment through essay examinations.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
1. Genetic and environmental influences on women’s addiction.
2. Physiological effects of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs on females.
3. Women’s health care needs
4. Sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV and Hepatitis C) and
infectious diseases (including Tuberculosis)
5. Pregnancy and addicted women
6. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
7. Parenting and addicted women
8. Eating disorders; Overeaters Anonymous
9. Adoption and Safe Families Act
10. Adults molested as children
11. Family violence/domestic violence
12. Nicotine addiction treatment
13. Outreach to women
14. Comprehensive treatment and linkages
15. Agency resources
16. Special populations such as: lesbians, women with disabilities,
older women
17. Self help resources
18. Child Abuse Reporting and 42 CFR Part 11 Federal Confidentiality Law
19. Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Including scope of practice for an addictions counselor)
20. Trauma Informed Services
21. Evidenced Based Practices
22. Interpersonal Neurobiology
23. History of Addiction and Addiction Treatment for Women
24. Harm Reduction Model