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Completion
of the Interdisciplinary Certificate in Substance Abuse Education
and Prevention requires the successful completion of six courses,
for a total of 16 hours of credit.
The courses required for the certificate encompass all of the
important elements related to understanding substance abuse, its
etiology, correlates, principles of screening, assessment, and
referral, biological bases of addiction and treatment, and a variety
of other topics, with a special emphasis special populations (e.g.,
southwestern, rural, families, elderly, HIV/AIDS).
REQUIRED COURSES:
Substance Abuse Core Curriculum (13 units)
* EPS 590 Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Prevention
and Treatment (3 units)
A graduate seminar offered from the College of Education. This
course is offered at NAU and at various distance
sites across Arizona. This graduate course provides an overview
of the basic concepts of drug and alcohol abuse with empahsis
on selection and implementation of treattment and prevention strategies.
* HS 585 Substance Abuse Prevention for Health
Professionals (3 units)
A graduate web course offered by the College of Health Professions
and the Department of Health Promotion. This web course is offered
only during the summer, but offers a great deal of flexibility
in that it can be taken from where ever you have a computer and
an internet connection. This interdisciplinary course critically
examines prevention strategies for addressing substance abuse
in both clinical and community settings, with particular focus
on issues of interest in the southwestern U.S.
* PSY 432 Psychophysiology of Drugs and Behavior
(3 units)
The sole undergraduate course in the certificate program is offered
at NAU each spring at NAU (beamed via television to remote sites
every other year). This course is also offered during the summer
session. This course provides an introduction to the physiological
and synaptic mechanisms by which therapeutic and illicit drugs
exert effects on behavior.
* PSY 575 Substance Abuse Screening and Assessment
Skills (1 unit)
This is a lab course offered over a 3-day period during the summer
session at the beautiful Flagstaff campus. Students will receive
training in essential interviewing skills, use of standardized
tests, and ethical issues needed to screen, assess, and refer
for substance-related problems. Studetns are familiarized with
ethical issues in the context of screening, assessment, and referral
issues as related to substance abuse.
* Substance Abuse Related Fieldwork Experience
(3 units).
Students enroll in the appropriate field placement/fieldwork experience
for their disciplines. The fieldwork experience must be taken
after the successful completion of the core curriculum
and must have clear relevance to substance abuse issues. Prior
to taking a fieldwork course, the planned experience must be approved
to count toward the certificate. Professional experience outside
the academic program may not be used to waive the fieldwork requirement.
Fieldwork experiences may vary, click here
for more details.
* Approved Elective Courses (need
to take one)
* HP 577 Socio-Cultural and Behavioral Aspects
of Public Health (3 units)
This graduate course will be offered as a web course beginning
Fall 2004. This graduate course provides an overview of social,
cultural, and behavioral aspects of public health, including issues
and considerations in public health programming.
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HP 532A Applied Aspects of Program Planning, Implementation
and Evaluation (4 units).
This graduate course is offered via ITV during the spring semester.
Originating from Flagstaff, the course is available in Flagstaff
as well as at distance sites. This course is the first of a two-course
sequence (the second course is NOT required for the certificate)
focusing on theory and processes of planning, implementinig, and
evaluating health education and promotion programs.
There may be another course that you would like to petition the
committee to count as your elective. This course must gain the
approval of the committee before it may count as an elective.
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HP 532A Applied Aspects of Program Planning, Implementation
and Evaluation (4 units).
This graduate
course is offered via ITV during the spring semester. Originating
from Flagstaff, the course is available in Flagstaff as well as
at distance sites. This course is the first of a two-course sequence
(the second course is NOT required for the certificate) focusing
on theory and processes of planning, implementinig, and evaluating
health education and promotion programs.
There may
be another course that you would like to petition the committee
to count as your elective. This course must gain the approval
of the committee before it may count as an elective.
No more than
25% (or 4 units) of the hours required for the certificate program
may be transferred from another university, and these units, if
approved by the certificate committee, would be counted as a specialty
area elective. We would like to see this elective cover program
planning and implementation, or course material related to larger
issues of maintaining community-based prevention and education
programs.
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