Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics
Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics (3 credits ) Provides a complete road map for assessing, diagnosing, and treating alcoholism. Topics include recognizing alcohol problems in clients, understanding the critical concepts of the treatment of alcoholism, the 12-step approach, relapse prevention, and recognizing primary or secondary psychiatric disorders in clients who are chemically dependent.
Professor: Diane Thomas
Week One
Learning Objectives for this Session:
To introduce the content and purpose of this course. To introduce the instructor and other students who are involved in this course. To introduce to the "treatment" professional how to recognize alcohol problems in his or her clients. To learn the various criteria used to diagnose both alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse.
Week Two
Learning Objectives for this Session:
Recognize the widespread adverse effects of alcohol in our families and communities Understand the difference between type one and type two alcoholism Introduce the student to the psychopathology related to addictions Learn that addiction is a brain disease Explore the benefits of utilizing God, our higher power, in treatment
Week Three
Learning Objectives for this Session:
Understand the importance of treatment planning as an effective part of healing. Learn the important components of a treatment plan. Become aware of the treatment planning tools available to drug and alcohol counselors.
Week Four
Learning Objectives for this Session:
Become aware of the different goals treatment professional can utilize to help those recovery Understand the importance of being honest in treatment Learn about habits and the behavior chain relative to alcoholism Recognize the importance of group interventions
Week Five
Learning Objectives for this Session:
Learn the importance of the 12-steps for treatment of alcoholism. Understand that participation in Alcoholics Anonymous is associated with positive outcomes in the treatment of alcoholism Go in-depth with steps one through five.
Week Six
Learning Objectives for this Session:
Learn how to work with the patient who is depressed, and pain, angry, suicidal, and homicidal Become familiar with various personality disorders Learn about anxiety, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders, impulse control disorders and the psychotic patient.
Week Seven
Learning Objectives for this Session:
Understand the high rates of patients presenting with both psychiatric disorders and chemical dependency Learn how to work with the patient who is depressed, and pain, angry, suicidal, and homicidal Become familiar with various personality disorders Learn about anxiety, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders, impulse control disorders and the psychotic patient.
Week Eight
Learning Objectives for this Session:
Learn to recognize when a patient should be discharged from treatment. Understand the discharge criteria. Become aware of the difference between a lapse and relapse. Recognize signs and symptoms of relapse.- Learn about the importance of a recovery community for sobriety.
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Understand your role in this recovery community.
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Become familiar with codependency and its role in addictions and recovery.
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Gain knowledge of the promises Alcoholics Anonymous makes for those who work their recovery.
Estimated Course Materials & Tuition:
Digital Media Fee $50.00
Tuition $450.00
Required Textbook: Perkinson, R. R. (2002). Treating alcoholism: Helping your clients find the road to recovery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Suggested Textbooks: American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC: Author Perkinson, R. R. & Jongsma, A.E. (1998). The chemical dependence treatment planner. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Total Cost of Course: (Does not include the cost of buying textbooks)
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