COURSE SYLLABUS FORMAT
Southeast Missouri State University
Department of: Health, Human Performance, & Recreation
Course No.: HL 151
Title of Course: Foundations of Substance Abuse Prevention
Revision
New
X
I. Catalog Description and Credit Hours of Course: The basic scientific principles of prevention. (3
credit hours)
II.
Prerequisite (s): None
III.
Purposes or Objective of the Course: Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:
A. Understand the importance of prevention.
B. Apply their beliefs of Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Drugs as they apply to making
decisions.
C. Demonstrate the importance of an evidence-based prevention program.
D. Understand key concepts of cultural competency and inclusion.
E. Plan program using the Strategic Prevention Framework logic model.
F. Develop a Logic Model.
G. Explain the importance of evaluation to the field of prevention.
H. Understand the basics of human development models.
I.
Understand the significance of media in relation to prevention.
J.
Utilize basic principles of social marketing.
K. Analyze an already existing prevention program.
IV.
Expectations of Students:
A. Each student will complete all examinations and assignments.
B. Each student will actively participate in course assignments both in and out of the classroom,
which will be evaluated randomly throughout the semester in written and oral format.
V. Course Content or Outline (Indicate number of class hours per unit or section):
A. Core Prevention Principles
1. Beliefs about Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Drug use
2. Relationship between the history of drugs
and the history of prevention
HOURS
6
3.
Prevention Code of Ethics
B. Theoretical Approaches
4. Evidence-based Prevention
5. Risk and Protective Factors Theory
6. Resiliency Approach
7. Developmental Assets Model
8. National Institutes on Drug Abuse Prevention Principles
9
C. Culture and Diversity
9. Cultural Competence and Inclusion
10. Attitudes and Values about Substance Use and Abuse
3
D. Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)
11. Stages of the Prevention Framework
12. Logic model in the context of planning
13. Sustainability
6
E. Evaluation
14. Importance of Evaluation Methods
15. Using the Logic Model to assist Evaluation
16. Stakeholders and the evaluation process
3
F. Human Development
9
17. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory
18. Piaget’s Theory of Human Development
19. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
20. Patterns of Life Changes in relation to moral, emotional
and social development
21. Structural and Functional changes that occur in Adolescent
Brain Development
22. Effects of Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Drugs on the
Adolescent Brain
G. Social Norming
23. Significance of Media in Prevention
24. Media Advocacy Principles
25. Alcohol and Tobacco Advertisement Analysis
26. Basic Principles of Social Marketing
6
H. On-line Prevention Assessment
27. Prevention certifications
28. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s Foundations
Prevention course
3
Total Hours = 45
VI. Textbook(s) and/or Other Required Materials or Equipment:
Required Text
Wilson, R. & Kolander, C. (2003). Drug Abuse Prevention: A School & Community Partnership.
3rd Ed. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Supplementary Text (available through NIDA)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (2003). Prevention Drug Use among Children and Adolescents,
a Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders. 2nd Ed. NIDA
Publication No. 04-4212(A).
VII. Basis for Student Evaluation:
50%
20%
20%
10%
Examinations
Research Project: Paper and presentation of one scientific health behavior theory and it’s
relation to substance abuse prevention
Completion of Center of Substance Abuse Prevention’s Foundations of Prevention on-line
course
Quizzes and homework assignments
The weight of evaluation criteria may vary at the discretion of the instructor and will be indicated at
the beginning of each course.
A=90-100%
B=80-89%
C=70-79%
D=60-69%
F=59% & below