Substance Use & Recovery    3 s.h

Catalog description

This course explores traditional and contemporary theories related to substance misuse and substance use disorders. Students will develop beginning-level practice application skills for intervening with individuals regarding their substance misuse. The course surveys a range of evidence-based approaches to: screening, assessment, and diagnosis of substance misuse/substance use disorder and related problems; determining the nature and severity of problems associated with substance use; evaluating readiness to change; and, treatment planning and intervention to ameliorate substance use problems. Content of this course meets the forty (40) hours of chemical dependency specific education in: theories of addiction (5 hours), counseling procedures and strategies with addicted populations (14 hours), group process and techniques working with addicted populations (5 hours), assessment and diagnosis of addiction (3 hours), treatment planning (7 hours), ethics (6 hours). Three hour lecture per week.