Certificate Program

The Addiction Studies Program is designed to provide the education, knowledge, training and skills necessary for persons to function effectively and efficiently at all professional hire levels, and in all vocational areas and settings in the field of chemical dependency - whether in prevention, intervention, treatment, or recovery - consistent with the identified core skills, competencies and standards, ethics, values and attitudes of the emerging new profession, Chemical Dependency Specialist (CDS).

CORE COURSES

                                UNITS

Addict 1                Understanding Addiction and Counseling                3

Addict 2                Drugs In Perspective: Pharmacology and Physiology                3

Addict 7                Addiction Treatment And Recovery                3

SKILLS COURSES

Addict 4                Addiction Counselor Training                3

Addict 5                Group Skills For Addiction Counselors                3

Addict 10                Addiction And The Family                3

FIELD WORK COURSE

Addict 9                Field Work For Addiction Personnel                3

ELECTIVE COURSES

Choose two of the following

Addict 11                Drinking Driver Programs Personnel Training                3

Addict 13                Addictive Diseases & Lifestyle Disorders                3

Addict 14                Addiction And Theories Of Human Development                3

Addict 15                Sociological Aspects Of Addiction                3

Addict 16                Continuing Recovery: Specific Strategies And Basic Skills                3

Addict 17                Women And Addiction                3

Addict 18                Addiction And Eating Disorders                3

Addict 19                Alcohol And Drug Education And Prevention                3

Plus one course in Child Development, Psychology or Sociology           3