Addictions and Mental health

Course Code: HLTH289

As first responders and front-line staff, it is critical to possess knowledge, understanding and empathy about issues relating to addictions and mental health. Explore the development of addictions, effects, signs and symptoms and response. Gain a greater understanding to the differences between mental health, mental illness and mental disorders. Familiarize yourself with concurrent disorders, a term used when a person has both a substance related disorder and a mental health disorder.