ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT IN ADDICTION COUNSELING

Catalog description

This course builds on the Foundations and Methods Courses in Substance Abuse Counseling by having students apply their knowledge in Assessment and Treatment. Experiential learning will be a major component in this course with an emphasis on holistic assessment and diagnosis of substance use disorders, and contemporary holistic treatment methods, including motivational interviewing and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). This course will also explore using counseling strategies in multicultural situations. It will allow the student to have an understanding of client differences: cultural, ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic, and individual. A focus will be on interventions and case management. Role plays will be used to practice assessment and treatment planning.