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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is an orientation course to the Addiction Counseling philosophy as expressed by a variety of professional sources. The student, regardless of professional identity or discipline, will have a basic understanding of addiction that includes knowledge of current models and theories, appreciation of the multiple contexts within which substance use occurs, and awareness of the effects of psychoactive drug use. Each professional must be knowledgeable about the continuum of care and the social contexts affecting the treatment and recovery process. Each addictions specialist must be able to identify a variety of helping strategies that can be tailored to meet the needs of the individual client. Each professional must be prepared to adapt to an ever-changing set of challenges and constraints.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how the student can become familiar with the major concepts of various personality theories. This course examines addiction counseling from a comprehensive view of counseling ethical issues, and allows the student to develop their own counseling style. An exploration of practical psychotherapeutic techniques, the development of skills required to assist clients in exploring problems and their ramifications, examination of attitudes and feelings, considering alternative solutions, and making decisions and committing those decisions to action.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the benefits of group counseling, the process of establishing a therapeutic environment through group therapy, utilizing appropriate counseling techniques and identifying and resolving issues of transference and counter-transference within a group counseling/therapy setting.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how counselors can measure client's problems. The student will examine several methods of measurement, with a focus on instruments a client can fill out him/herself that give a fairly clear profile of the client. During this course the student will practice skillful clinical documentation. This will encompass the ability to collect appropriate patient data (history information), evaluate the data clinically, and establish an effective treatment plan and communicate this information in the patient record and during multi-disciplinary case conference reviews.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the administrative, clinical, and evaluative activities that bring the client, treatment services, community agencies, and other resources together to focus on issues and needs identified in the treatment plan. Service coordination, which includes case management and client advocacy, establishes a framework of action for the client to achieve a specified goal. This course explores collaboration with the client and significant others, coordination of treatment and referral services, liaison activities with community resources and managed care systems, client advocacy, and ongoing evaluation of treatment progress and client needs.
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3.00 Credits
This course will outline major categories of drugs abused. It will include the psychological and physiological effects of the drug on the body, the drugs' history, withdrawal symptoms, and therapeutic intervention. The student will be introduced to basic drug components, interactions, contraindications and usages of drugs encountered in a therapeutic setting.
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1.00 Credits
This course is descriptive of an overview of addiction. Students will be exposed to a significant amount of information regarding theory and actual practice in the continually changing field of Addiction Counseling. In order to solidify or add depth to their own views, students will be encouraged to be open-minded and to seek information, even from those whose opinions may differ from their own.
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2.00 Credits
This course is based on the dynamics associated with substance use, abuse, and dependence in families, couples, and significant others. Topics of exploration include the impact of interaction patterns on substance use behaviors, cultural factors related to the impact of substance use disorders on families, couples, and significant others; systems theory and dynamics; signs and patterns of domestic violence; and impacts of substance use behaviors on interaction patterns.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an orientation course to the Addiction Counseling philosophy as expressed by a variety of professional sources. The student will have a basic understanding of addiction that includes knowledge of current models and theories, appreciation of the multiple contexts within which substance use occurs, and awareness of the effects of psychoactive drug use. Students will be introduced to the continuum of care and the social contexts affecting the treatment and recovery process. Students will explore a variety of helping strategies that can be tailored to meet the needs of the individual client.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of CA121, Addictions I, an enhanced theory and methods course in which the Addiction Counseling philosophy is expressed by a variety of more extensive professional sources. The student will add to their basic understanding of addiction counseling which includes additional knowledge of current models and theories, appreciation of the multiple contexts within which substance use occurs, and awareness of the effects of psychoactive drug use. Students will be knowledgeable about the continuum of care and the social contexts affecting the treatment and recovery process. Students will explore a variety of helping strategies that can be tailored to meet the needs of the individual client and an ever-changing set of challenges and constraints.
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