What are the main things learned about Substance Use and Addictions and Perspectives on Mental Health?
What are the main things learned about Substance Use and Addictions and Perspectives on Mental Health?
How did this reinforce, contradict, or speak to one another?
2) Now that you have taken the classes what are your current definitions of “addiction” and “mental illness”?
3) What do you think the relationship is between “mental illness” and “addictions”? Put another way, what is your current etiology for “concurrent disorders” what do you think causes a person to have these experiences?
4) What biases or beliefs do you have regarding people with “concurrent disorders” and where do they come from? How might your identities, personal histories and/or the ways you have internalized relationship oppressive systems of power (ableism, capitalism, colonialism, racism, heteropatriarchy) have influenced your ideas?
