ADC 201 - Chemical Dependency Counseling Skills

(3 credits)

45 contact hours
Prerequisites: ADC 106 and ADC 108
Students are prepared to be addiction counselors, placing special emphasis on establishing and maintaining a therapeutic relationship that enables the client to abstain from substance use and abuse and achieve a healthy life. Training focuses on the skills of interviewing, active listening, confrontation, defense mechanisms, communications skills, transference, transitions in the counseling relationship, and increasing client responsibility.