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Stellenbosch University

Postgraduate Diploma in Addiction Care

The Postgraduate Diploma in Addiction Care in Health Professions is offered by Stellenbosch University.

Program Length: 2 YEARS.

Postgraduate Diploma in Addiction Care offered by Stellenbosch University at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Programme description
The Postgraduate Diploma in Addiction Care aims to enrich, broaden and consolidate your knowledge and expertise as a professional working within the field of addiction care, by providing you with a review of the current evidence-based literature relevant to this field. The purpose of the diploma programme is to improve your care for patients with substance use disorders, rather than to provide basic knowledge or research capacity.The curriculum covers the most important areas within the field of addiction care and will help mould well-rounded addiction-care practitioners.This qualification, however, does not entitle you to provide professional counselling unless your registration with a professional body or the scope of practice of your previous qualification(s) permit you to do so.

Programme outcomes
After completion of the programme you should have:

• A comprehensive knowledge of the theory relevant to the field of addiction;
• Holistic skills to provide effective, evidence-based interventions to patients with substance use disorders; and
• Suitable skills to study professional and ethical practices.

Presentation
The programme is offered in a modular manner.

The programme is offered by means of blended learning and will include e-learning, guided selfstudy, assignments, homework tasks and experiential learning, as well as formal lecture weeks. You must log compulsory practical hours.

Programme Content

You must complete all four modules. If you do not pass all your first-year modules, you can register for the modules of the second year while repeating the outstanding modules of the first year, should you choose to do so.

First year

Evidence-based Treatment (36)
Introduction to Addiction (24)

 

Second year

Addiction and Special Groups (36)
Addiction Services (24)

Assessment and examination

• You must show satisfactory attendance of classes and participation in e-learning activities, and obtain a class mark of at least 40% for each module to be eligible to write the examination in that module.
• The class mark is consists of the marks for flexible assessment and assessment of assignments.
• You must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass a module. The final mark consists of the class mark and the examination mark for each module according to the rules in Part I of the University Calendar.
• Re-examinations can either be written or oral examinations.
• You must pass all modules with a final mark of at least 50% to qualify for the diploma, and you will be allowed to graduate only if you have submitted a logbook to confirm satisfactory participation of the prescribed hours of practical work. The final mark for the programme is calculated as the average of the marks for the completed modules.