City Vision College Course 416 Mental Illness and Addiction

Course 416 - Mental Illness and Addiction

(3 credits) (This course is offered during the Fall Term 2 - October to December)

An overview on Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser: clients who have both chemical dependency and mental health issues. Students will learn the most significant predictors of treatment success, how to provide an empathic and continuous treatment relationship, how to distinguish between the criteria of substance abuse vs. substance dependency and more. Students will also learn how to recognize the diagnostic features of the more common mental health disorders such as affective and anxiety disorders, but will also study psychotic, cognitive disorders, and many others. Finally, students will understand how to implement general treatment strategies and tactics when working with the dually diagnosed client as well as with families.

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