Sep 17, 2024  
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog 
    
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog

Addiction Counseling Certificate


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The Addiction Counseling certificate track is specifically designed to prepare students and practicing professionals for entry-level positions as substance abuse counselors. This program is designed to provide career development opportunities to increase the number of credentialed counselors in the Baltimore region. This program also increases the skills of practicing entry-level Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) counselors by providing skills training to help them meet requirements for certification and by providing internship opportunities for students desiring to work in this mental health specialization.

Priority for admission to this certificate track goes to those planning to work in the Baltimore City area. Applicants must have a high school diploma or GED®, no fewer than three years of AODA work experience, and no history of alcohol or other drug misuse or active dependency for a period of two years immediately prior to admission to this program. Please note that this academic certificate is not a substitute for certification through the Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists.

Suggested Sequence of Courses

** All BCCC students must meet the College’s Computer Literacy requirements in order to receive a degree or a certificate. All first-time, full- and part-time degree and certificate seeking students are required to complete the PRE 100  course within the first six credits.

 

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 services 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 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.

Program Total 28


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