Overview
Description
Explores the developmental origins and trajectories of co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders from prenatal influences through emerging adulthood (age 25). Integrates developmental psychopathology frameworks with evidence-based clinical approaches, emphasizing adverse childhood experiences, attachment, brain development, and age-appropriate intervention strategies.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze how developmental processes from prenatal influences through emerging adulthood shape vulnerability and resilience to co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.
- apply adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) research and attachment theory to understand the developmental origins of co-occurring disorders and inform trauma-responsive clinical practice.
- explain the neurobiological changes occurring during adolescent brain development and their implications for substance use vulnerability, risk-taking behavior, and treatment approaches.
- evaluate the unique developmental characteristics of emerging adulthood (ages 18-25) and identify age-appropriate assessment and intervention strategies for this population.
- integrate developmental psychopathology frameworks to trace how early life experiences influence trajectories of substance use and mental health outcomes across the lifespan.
- demonstrate cultural humility and developmental sensitivity when considering how diverse backgrounds and contexts shape the presentation and treatment of co-occurring disorders across developmental stages.