Co-Occurring Trauma and Addiction

Catalog description

Class provides basic knowledge in how to identify trauma and its long and short term effects on clients and students will learn how to build a therapeutic relationship with a traumatized client to promote psychological healing. Students will have the opportunity to learn treatment strategies for working with clients that have co-occurring substance use/addiction, mental health and traumatic experiences such as physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and learn how to assess for suicide risk. Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ACP 116 and ACP 117 and ACP 220 or ACP 222