2024

Nursing Interventions in Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies

Name: Nursing Interventions in Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies
Code: ENF14528M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/81 hours
Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The purpose of the Curricular Unit (CU) is to allow students to acquire knowledge that allows them to develop professional skills to help people with addictive behaviours and addictions to improve and recover their mental health, developing adaptive responses in all contexts.
It is intended that students are able to:
-Demonstrate knowledge about the different explanatory models of addictive behaviours and dependencies.
-Identify different forms of addictive behaviours and dependencies.
-Know the different forms of intervention related to addictive behaviours and dependencies.

Contents

-Framework and fundamental concepts in addictive behaviours and dependencies
- Intervention models in people with addictive behaviours and dependencies
-Behavioural dependencies (game; internet; gadgets; sex): conceptualization, evaluation, and intervention
- Smoking dependence: conceptualization, evaluation, and intervention
- Alcohol dependence: conceptualization, evaluation, and intervention
-Risk reduction and damage minimization programs and treatment programs

Teaching Methods

Expositive and participatory method. Theoretical classes where the syllabus contents will be taught, articulating with practical classes where the students will mobilize not only the acquired knowledge, but also will have orientation for elaboration of Systematic Review of Literature.
-The UC intends for students to deepen their understanding of nursing care for people with addictive behaviors and dependencies in an approach to reduce risks and minimize damage in the face of consumption.
The systematic review of literature is an element of evaluation.
The evaluation of the Curricular Unit will be carried out by two elements of evaluation:
- Group work: elaboration of a systematic literature review (weighting 70%.)
- Oral presentation of the work done (weighting 30%).
The themes for the elaboration of the RSL will be proposed by the students in connection with the taught contents.
In each element of evaluation, the student must have a minimum classification of 9.5 values.