This week’s topics
Final assessment and submission
- Final coursework submission
- Assessment against all criteria
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Define addiction.
- 1.2 Evaluate the usefulness of the concept of addiction.
- 1.3 Discuss how drugs are psychoactive substances, and how they may be used therapeutically or for pleasure.
- 1.4 Explain which drugs are legal or illegal.
- 1.5 Describe how drug usage and acceptance changes overtime within the same society and between societies.
- 2.1 Analyse the concept of addiction for being oversimplified and for reflecting the disease model.
- 2.2 Evaluate scientific evidence to substantiate theoretical arguments concerning the nature of human addictive behaviour.
- 3.1 Explain the risk factors for addiction.
- 3.2 Analyse risk factors affecting vulnerability to addiction.
- 4.1 Describe approaches to the treatment of drug dependence.
- 4.2 Evaluate different psychological and biological therapies used for chemical abuse and dependence.
- 4.3 Evaluate different psychological and biological therapies for non-chemical abuse and dependence.
Activity
Final assessment week: submission of the unit assignment.
Study materials
The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
