Addiction Counseling, AAS

Program Learning Outcomes

• Conduct assessments of client needs and resources at both the individual and community level, including analysis of social and political barriers that may impede health.

• Plan, facilitate , implement  interventions and evaluate the outcome of serves for those served.

• Engage in practices and techniques that encompass group facilitation, psychosocial assessment, behavioral change and motivating practices working with diverse populations.

• Utilize a variety of counseling skills and abilities to function effectively as chemical dependency counselors in a variety of setting.

• Demonstrate the ability to adhere to professional ethical standards, including confidentiality, sensitivity when working with diverse populations and responsibility for professional growth.

• Seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ informant technology to engage in life learn learning.

• Develop and promote healthy practices, self-awareness and self-care applying this personally, with clients, colleagues and other professional.

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with clients, colleagues, and supervisors.

• Work together with individuals and groups to assess needs, promote strengths, manage problems, set goals, develop or access resources, implement and assess action plans.

• Examine the relationship between self, community, and environments, evaluating potential impacts and consequences of actions, and making choices and contributions based on that evaluation and evaluation.

• Explain the characteristics and treatment demands of chemically dependent/substance abusing clients.

• Identify, analyze and evaluate rhetorical strategies in one’s own and others’ writing in order to communicate effectively.

• Apply/utilize written computer skills to maintain appropriate client and agency reports, records, documents.

• Employ and interpret clear, concise, and open  communications in a professional skills including verbal, nonverbal, and written communications in a professional manner.

• Utilize mathematical, symbolic, logical , graphical, and statistical  analysis for the interpretation and solution of problems in the natural world and human society.

• Gather, assemble, and interpret data through various methods necessary to determine consumers’ strengths and barriers that interfere with their ability to overcome adversity or achieved valued life goals.

• Use critical thinking skills to make sound and reasoned decisions regarding common ethical dilemmas encountered in various practice settings.

• Apply appropriate diagnostics criteria for substance related disorders, and criteria for other mental health disorders that commonly co-occur with addictive disorders.

1st Semester

• PRE 100 - Preparation for Academic Achievement (1 credit)
• ADC 106 - Fundamentals of Chemical Dependency Treatment (3 credits)
• ENG 101 - English Writing (3 credits)
• AHS 100 - Introduction to Human Services (4 credits)
• ADC 108 - Pharmacology of Chemical Dependency (3 credits)
• CLT 100 - Computer Literacy (2 credits)

2nd Semester

• ADC 201 - Chemical Dependency Counseling Skills (3 credits)
• AHS 101 - Clinical/Fieldwork I: Human Services Individual Counseling (4 credits)
• PSY 101 - Introductory Psychology (3 credits)
• HLF-Elective - Health and Life Fitness  (1 credit)
• SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology (3 credits)
• AHS 295 - Professional Ethics in Human Services (3 credits)

3rd Semester

• BIO 101 - General Biology (3 credits)
• ADC 202 - Assessment and Treatment Planning with Chemically Dependent Clients (3 credits)
• AHS 102 - Clinical/Fieldwork II: Human Services Group Counseling (5 credits)
• HLF-Elective - Health and Life Fitness  (1 credit)
• PSY 104 - Developmental Psychology (3 credits)

4th Semester

• MAT 107 - Modern Elementary Statistics (3 credits)
• PSY 204 - Introduction to Abnormal Psychology (3 credits)
• ADC 205 - Clinical Fieldwork III Chemical Dependency (3 credits)
• SPE 101 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication (3 credits)

Program Total 60