Chemical and Psychological Dependency Counseling

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of dependency counseling strategies using a biopsychological approach to help identify, change, and maintain dependency-free behaviors. You will use your understanding of the biopsychological model to explore how substance use and process disorders begin and intensify as a complicated interaction between chemical and behavioral changes that occur during addiction. You will practice identifying diagnoses using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and proposing appropriate interventions through evaluating and writing case studies.