Addictions Seminar-Prevention

Catalog description

This course will provide the student an understanding of the risk and protective factors for the onset of substance abuse disorders and how these may be targeted in the early intervention activities of preventive counseling and best-practice prevention programming. Program funders and school systems increasingly want services that prevent problems from occurring. Participants in this course will learn the skills needed to be effective in these settings. Participants will learn skills that are applicable at the American Society of Addiction Medicine's Early Intervention level of care (0.5).