Syllabus
1. Factors of creation, development and maintenance of behaviors associated with the emergence of pathological addictive behavior.
2. Bio-psycho-social model of addictive disorders.
3. Hereditary and congenital determinants, psychological factors, factors of individual development.
4. Factors significant for the termination of the drug career, therapy and its alternatives, the area lifestyle changes.
5. An effective strategy to combat addiction.
6. Creation and implementation of preventive programmes in schools and educational establishments.
Annotation
The aim of the course is to deepen the students knowledge in the field of prevention, treatment and research of the use of addictive substances and other forms of potentially addictive behaviour, their impact on an individual and on the society and on social reintegration of people who suffer as a result of such forms of behaviour. The course is based on the concept of an interdisciplinary field of addictology which shows itself in the effort in interlinking of new findings about the causes and development of addictive behaviour from the field of medicine, psychology, sociology and social work.
It concurrently takes into account relevant findings in economy, law, criminology, pedagogy, politology, religionistics and cultural and social anthropology. The course creates a theoretical superstructure of the related compulsory subjects.