Certificates/Less-than-2-year Certificates in Substance Abuse + Addiction Counseling: A program that prepares individuals to help prevent substance abuse, counsel individuals and families with drug and alcohol problems, and perform intervention and therapeutic services for persons suffering from addiction. Includes instruction in individual and group counseling skills, psychology of addiction, sociology, crisis intervention, substance abuse identification methodologies, substance abuse treatment modalities, substance abuse prevention and treatment resources, pharmacology and behavioral aspects of abused substances, treatment evaluation, patient observation and education, group dynamics, professional standards and ethics, and applicable law and regulations.
The program in Chemical Dependency Studies centers around the specific skills and abilities necessary to provide comprehensive drug and alcohol counseling. Course work includes the twelve counselor core function applications in addiction screening, intake, assessment, orientation, counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, clients education, client‘s rights, confidentiality, professional ethics, and reports and record keeping....
A program that prepares individuals to help prevent substance abuse, counsel individuals and families with drug and alcohol problems, and perform intervention and therapeutic services for persons suffering from addiction. Includes instruction in individual and group counseling skills, psychology of addiction, sociology, crisis intervention, substance abuse identification methodologies, substance abuse treatment modalities, substance abuse prevention...
The Substance Abuse Counseling certificate is designed to provide cross-training for helping professionals in other disciplines, i.e. bachelor and master level social workers, counselors, psychologists, nurses, criminal justices, etc. It also trains students for employment as a counselor intern. After completing the 18 hours (270 educational hrs.) of credit plus 336 practicum hours' experience in an approved substance abuse agency, students may...
First Semester
PSYT 1329 Interviewing and Communication Skills
DAAC 1319 Introduction to Alcohol and Other Drug Addictions
DAAC 1304 Pharmacology of Addiction
DAAC 1309 Assessment Skill of Alcohol and Other Drug Addictions
CMSW 1309 Problems of Children and Adolescents
The curriculum for the Drug and Alcohol Certificate is designed to prepare individuals for work in the addictions field. The program emphasizes a public health approach that addresses community, social, and individual factors of addiction while providing certificate candidates with a strong background in treatment modalities, health education and prevention, professional and ethical responsibilities, and client advocacy.
Alcoholism and substance abuse counselors help alcoholics and substance abusers overcome addiction and establish a more adaptive life-style. Counselors may help the client with initial detoxification; with psychological adjustment to the loss of alcohol and/or drugs by means of individual, group, family and marital counseling; with engagement in a self-help group such as Alcoholics Anonymous and/or Narcotics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, Sex and...
A program that prepares individuals to help prevent substance abuse, counsel individuals and families with drug and alcohol problems, and perform intervention and therapeutic services for persons suffering from addiction. Includes instruction in individual and group counseling skills, psychology of addiction, sociology, crisis intervention, substance abuse identification methodologies, substance abuse treatment modalities, substance abuse prevention...
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