Substance Abuse and Recovery for Counselors

Catalog description

The course provides students with the history and development of addiction counseling. Students explore the factors that increase the likelihood for a person, community, or group to be at risk or resilient to psychoactive substance use disorders. Moreover, students learn about professional counseling organizations, credentials, legal and ethical considerations, record keeping, evaluation, treatment, and other practice and management considerations that specifically apply in addiction counseling. Additional topics include principles of abstinence and harm reduction models of addiction recovery along with role of spirituality in the addiction recovery process.