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SWK3120 Mental Health: An Addictions Focus
SCHOOL OF REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Credit Points: 15
 
Description:

The unit explores mental health and drug and alcohol use in Australian society within a social determinants of health framework. The unit will cover the classification of psychiatric conditions and issues of competing explanatory models for mental illness and addiction. The unit will also cover the use of drugs as physiological, social and intra-personal phenomena.

 

 



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This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
K41Bachelor of Social Work - Bunbury
MABUSZHuman Services Major
 
 
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 12/07/2011 VET: 12/07/2011