Sub Abuse/Counseling

SW

309

Sub Abuse/Counseling

In classroom sessions, students will acquire an understanding ofAOD abuse as a bio-psycho-social problem. Applying basic socialwork principles, participants will learn a spectrum of treatmentapproaches to helping clients achieve abstinence and long-termrecovery and acquire insight into the client-counselor relationship.Sessions will include counseling exercises, experiential groupexperience and other counseling techniques designed to honestudents' counseling skills that are vital in a clinical setting. Lecturesand readings will address: intakes; DSM-IV diagnoses; leadingand co-leading groups; individual counseling; family counseling;treatment planning, motivating clients to change; self-help programs;encountering resistance; relapse prevention; vocational training andreferrals and termination. Pre-requisites: SW 301 and SW 302 andSW 337

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

No

019528