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About this course

University degree

125 h

Online

5 ECTS (Créditos)

Qualification of Prevention of Drug Dependency

University Degree in Prevention of Drug Dependence with 5 ECTS University Credits.

Homologado Oposiciones
The continuing education courses are valid to score in the scale of teaching competitive examinations, having a minimum duration of 125 hours (5 ECTS credits), to contribute up to a maximum of 2 POINTS in the Section of "Other merits" that are collected in all the Calls for Competitions of the Spanish territory, according to the R.D. 276/2007 of February 23rd (BOE 2/3/2007) on Access to the Public Teaching Function. These courses are also valid for the scale corresponding to the statewide transfer competition, according to Royal Decree 1364/2010 of October 29th. Each call for each course has a duration of 22 days following the methodological and evaluation guidelines established and applied by the Antonio de Nebrija University, an institution that provides the highest quality guarantees.

The duration of the courses in Catalonia must not exceed 10 hours per week and in Castilla y León 20 hours per week to be taken into account in full according to the latest bulletins published (DOGC nº 6205 of 3/9/2012 and BOCYL nº 241 of 16/12/2014), so we have adapted the period of realization of the same (Catalonia: 125 hours-13 weeks) (Castilla y León: 125 hours-7 weeks courses).

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Objectives

To know the phenomenon of drug addictions in depth, as well as the risk and protective factors that surround it learning to neutralize some and to enhance others.

To know the different types of addictive substances and their effects on the organism.

To offer the theoretical and methodological bases to develop preventive work and design specific actions in different areas.

To promote among people the rejection of drugs and the acceptance of alternative ways of leisure and socialization.

Content

UNIT 1. GENERAL CONCEPTS. ADOLESCENCE AND DRUG USE. CONCEPT OF PREVENTION

Addictions
- Concept of Drug Dependence
Adolescence and drug use
- General characteristics of adolescence
- Adolescence and drugs
Prevention: approaches and models
- Concept of prevention
- Concept of prevention

UNIT DIDACTIC 2. ALCOHOL: A LEGAL DRUG.

Alcohol
Ethanol
- Mechanisms of brain action of ethanol
- Pharmacokinetics of ethanol
The effects of alcohol
- Effects of alcohol on the central nervous system
- Psychological effects
- Physiological effects
Phases of acute alcohol exposure
Problems associated with chronic alcohol consumption
Alcoholism detoxification treatments

UNIT DIDACTIC 3. TOBACCO

Historical overview
Tobacco
Nicotine
Consequences of tobacco use
- Short-term
- Chronic use
Treatment of nicotine addiction

UNIT 4. STIMULANTS

Xanthines and coca
- Coffee
- Coca
- Other plant-based stimulants
Cocaine
- The drug
- Effects of cocaine
- Patterns of use
- Treatments of cocaine dependence
Amphetamines
- Effects of amphetamines
- Amphetamine on the brain
Stimulant psychosis

UNIT DIDACTIC 5. N.S. DEPRESSANTS

Opiates
- Heroin
- Methadone
Major tranquillizers or antipsychotics or neuroleptics
Minor tranquillizers - anxiolytics - benzodiazepines
Barbiturates
Inhalants
- Risks of consumption

TEACHING UNIT 6. DISRUPTIVE DRUGS OF THE N.S.C

Cannabis
- Psychological and physiological effects
- Risks of use
Synthetic or designer drugs: MDMA
- Physiological and psychological effects
- Risks of use
LSD
- Physiological and psychological effects
- Risks of LSD
Phenycycline or PCP or angel dust
Mescaline
Psilobicin and psilocin
The anticholinergics

UNIT DIDACTIC 7. TREATMENT RESOURCES

Care Resources
- Outpatient Treatment Centers
- Support Devices
- Programs
Day Centers (DC)
- Recipients
- Objectives
- Specific instruments according to the program to be developed
- Duration of the process
Meeting and Reception Center (CEA)
- Minimum services to be provided by the CEA
- Objectives
- Methodology
- Program
Therapeutic community (TC)
- Admission and exclusion criteria
- Admission and stay procedure
- Objectives
- Methodology
Detoxification units
- Objectives
- Methodology
Treatment support housing (VAT)
- General admission and exclusion criteria
- Objectives
- Methodology
Spanish Observatory on Drugs

UNIT DIDACTIC 8. THE PREVENTION OF DRUG DEPENDENCE

General guidelines
- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention
- Supply and demand reduction
- Interrelationship between host, agent and environment
Models, strategies, techniques and prevention programs in drug dependence
- Classification according to their objectives
- Classification according to their theoretical bases
- Classification according to various criteria
- Classification of demand reduction programs
- Current orientations of prevention programs
- Multidimensional and systemic model of drug dependence prevention
- Prevention = intervention X transformation
- Basic components of prevention
- Processes and mechanisms of prevention
It is necessary to teach prevention
- Listening: a basic premise
- Talking: a convenient proposition
- The binomial: Independence/Dependence
- Health: a guarantee of quality
- Let's enhance a rich and interesting life

UNIT DIDACTIC 9. THE PREVENTION OF DRUG DEPENDENCY IN EDUCATIONAL CENTERS

Educational purposes
Center curriculum project
- Guidance and Tutorial Action Plan
Regulation of organization and operation
The action of parents in the center
- The analysis of the reality of the drug problem
- The participation in the planning and development of the PCC
- The optimization of school resources
- The coordination with other social agents
- The dynamization of committed policies

UNIDAD DIDÁCTICA 10. INTERVENTION IN DRUG DEPENDENCE. GENERAL STEPS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DRUG DEPENDENCE. TYPES OF INTERVENTION

Current legislation
- State regulations
- Regional regulations
- International regulations
Risk and protective factors
- Risk factors
- Protective factors
Basic indications on prevention and intervention in drug dependence and addictions
- Methodology of preventive intervention
Intervention in drug dependence: individual, family and community
- Individual intervention
- Family intervention
- Community intervention

UNIT DIDACTIC 11. SOME DEVELOPING PROGRAMS AGAINST DRUG ADDICTION.

Say 'no' (drug prevention education for preteens)
What do you think?
ESO sin humos
Forma Joven
Prevenir para vivir
Desarrollo de un programa concreto
- Objetivos generales del programa
- First session: contact
- Second session: tobacco and alcohol
- Third session: advertising
Resources for the prevention of addictions on the network

Methodology

Entre el material entregado en este curso se adjunta un documento llamado Guía del Alumno dónde aparece un horario de tutorías telefónicas y una dirección de e-mail dónde podrá enviar sus consultas, dudas y ejercicios. Además recibirá los materiales didácticos que incluye el curso para poder consultarlos en cualquier momento y conservarlos una vez finalizado el mismo.La metodología a seguir es ir avanzando a lo largo del itinerario de aprendizaje online, que cuenta con una serie de temas y ejercicios. Para su evaluación, el alumno/a deberá completar todos los ejercicios propuestos en el curso. La titulación será remitida al alumno/a por correo una vez se haya comprobado que ha completado el itinerario de aprendizaje satisfactoriamente.

What does it prepare you for?

With this drug addiction prevention course the aim is, therefore, to provide information and training to address the first consumption of young people at risk, especially in adolescence, which is considered a stage of particular vulnerability.

Who is it aimed at?

This drug addiction prevention courseis aimed at all those Teachers of Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education Teachers, Psychologists, Pedagogues, Psychopedagogues, etc. and, in general, any University Graduate interested in carrying out their professional work in the field of drug addiction prevention. Education professionals interested in quality training that allows them to face the changing reality of the classroom and the new skills required for the exercise of their profession.

Career opportunities

Once you have completed the training in this course Prevention of Drug Dependence, you will have acquired the necessary knowledge to work in professions such as counselor, social mediator, psychiatric expert as well as expert in prevention of drug dependence in adolescents..

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