Addiction: A Biopsychosocial Model (3 hours)

About This Course Your Course Instructor Course Formats This 3 hour course is designed to introduce clinicians to Terence Gorksi’s understanding of the Biopsychosocial Model of the nature of addictions. Goals/Objectives By participating in this Distance Learning Course the student will be able to: Define what mind altering drugs are and why people use/abuse them. Explain the three categories of addictive risk factors. Distinguish between social usage, abuse, and addiction to mind altering drugs. Define the three stages of addiction. Understand the progressive symptoms and stages of addiction. Terence T. Gorski is an internationally recognized expert on substance abuse, mental health, violence, & crime. He is best known for his contributions to relapse prevention, managing chemically dependent offenders, and developing community-based teams for managing the problems of alcohol, drugs, violence, and crime. He has extensive experience working with employee assistance programs