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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2017 through Summer 2021
- Course Number:
- AD 109
- Course Title:
- Criminality 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:
- Apply knowledge of specific assessment protocols and treatment strategies to addicts with criminal histories.
- Utilize knowledge of criminality to respond to resistance and other obstacles related to motivation and treatment engagement.
- Employ knowledge of cultural and peer group norms to help facilitate recovery with the addicted criminally involved person.
Course Activities and Design
This is primarily a lecture course. Students will be asked to create a treatment proposal for a specific “client” provided via a case study by the instructor.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
1. An assessment process that will extract information from lectures, readings and other multimedia presentations via a test of a basic understanding of the targeted concepts.
2. A project that requires the student to synthesize the course material into an appropriate referral for a fictional criminally involved person who presents with a substance use concern.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
1) History of criminality and incarceration in America.
2) Over representation of minorities in the criminal justice system.
3) The incarcerated experience including sexual crimes in prison.
4) Genders differences and criminality.
5) Evidenced Based Practices
6) Nonviolent Communication and Restorative Justice
7) Trauma Informed Services
8) Wellness Informed Services
9) Risk/Need Assessments
10) Key Principles of Interventions working with Criminal Justice Clients
11) Social Obstacles and Supports – including Peer Mentors
12) Criminal backgrounds and Housing and Employment and Re-entry