1 Understanding Addiction and Counseling (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Overview of community prevention, education, outreach and referral. A study of the nature of alcoholism/chemical dependency, including intervention, treatment and recovery and counseling chemically dependent persons.
2 Drugs In Perspective (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Pharmacology and physiology of alcohol and other drugs. The fundamental principles of the action of alcohol and other drugs. Pharmacological and physiological implications of tolerance, habituation, and excessive consumption of alcohol and other drugs. The psychophysical, cultural, and social implications will be presented.
4 Addiction Counselor Training (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Participants will be trained in the listening and responding skills, learning to apply eight basic communication skills in one-on-one interactions with clients/patients, as well as learning counseling skills in the areas of empathy, values, and attitude exploration, and problem solving, with distinct applications to chemical dependency.
5 Group Skills For Addiction Counselors (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
A course to train participants in the skills and principles fundamental to facilitating a group, including group process, establishing goals, curative factors, starting a counseling group, observing a group, and making interventions, with special emphasis upon chemical dependency-specific issues in a group setting.
7 Addiction Treatment And Recovery (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Intervention, treatment and recovery, including assessment, case management, orientation, treatment planning, relapse prevention, and after care planning. The therapeutic dynamics of Alcoholics Anonymous are compared to a number of different schools of psychology and programs of transformation, growth and development.
9 Field Work For Addiction Personnel (3)
Lecture 1 hour; Laboratory 5 hours.
Prerequisites: Addiction Studies 1 or 2 with a grade of “C” or better..
Supervised practicum, internship. Participants must be already
knowledgeable about chemical dependency. An opportunity to document at least 160 hours working at an agency or in some situation directly in the field of chemical dependency, in addition to the classroom hours. Those seeking CAADAC certification will want to document a minimum of 255 fieldwork hours in addition to the 45 semester hours during the semester.
10 Addiction And The Family (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
A course on chemical dependency as a family disease, to include many theoretical and practical issues including: assessment, treatment, and recovery of the chemically dependent family, interventions, family counseling, family systems and theory, domestic violence, children of alcoholics, et al.
Course
Course
Descriptions
11 Drinking Driver Programs Personnel Training (3)
Lecture 2 hours; Laboratory 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
This course will provide present and prospective employees of Drinking Driver Programs with identified specific knowledge and skills necessary to function effectively and efficiently in a drinking driver program.
13 Addictive Diseases & Lifestyle Disorders (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
Examines the pathology and nature of, and the intervention, treatment, and recovery processes involved in, a wide range of addictive diseases and lifestyle disorders: chemical dependency, including nicotine; sexual addiction; gambling addiction; eating disorders (including anorexia and bulimia); compulsive spending; workaholism and type “A” behavior; violence addiction battering, child abuse, and incest, including forms of state sanctioned violence.
14 Addiction And Theories Of Human Development (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
Focuses on developmental stages of body, mind, emotion, spirit (values and morals), and relationships, as they are effected by the disease process of chemical dependency, and positively enhanced by the health process of recovery. Theorists include Piaget, Freud, Erikson, Kohlberg, Fowler, Keene, Maslow and Frankl. Readings include biographies.
15 Sociological Aspects Of Addiction (3) CSU
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
The basic principles and concepts of sociology with special emphasis upon the social phenomenon of chemical dependency, as it effects the family, and large sociological groups such as women, senior citizens, ethnic minorities, et al.
16 Continuing Recovery: Strategies And Basic Skills (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
This course covers applied methodology and “counseling skills” with respect to chemical dependency and other addictive disorders. Course contents may include: role play, case studies, interventions demonstrations, 12 Step Model of Recovery, Reality Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, family systems analysis, relapse prevention theory and techniques.
17 Women And Addiction (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
A comparative analysis of women who become addicted. Relates to those unique factors that contribute to addictive disorders in women and the implication for treatment. Those addictions include alcohol, other drugs, overeating, smoking, and addictive relationships.
18 Addiction And Eating Disorders (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
To work effectively in the field of chemical dependency an understanding of eating disorders, such as bulimia, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia, is necessary, recognizing that their presence is a crucial issue in chemical dependency recovery.
19 Alcohol And Drug Education And Prevention (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
The study of prevention strategies in the field of alcohol and drug addictions stressing a positive and practical approach to the immediate reduction and eventual elimination of alcohol and drug abuse, and the disease of addiction.
20 Domestic Violence Counselor Training (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
Explores the nature of domestic violence; its signs and symptoms and its impact upon individuals, families, and society. Training in cultural and ethnic issues, counseling victims and families, intervention, treatment, and recovery processes for those affected by domestic violence. Prevention, education, and social policy issues are addressed.
21 Problem Gambling Counselor Training (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
Explores the nature of addiction and problem gambling and its impact upon individuals, families, and society. Cultural and ethnic issues are studied. Provides “advanced counseling skills” training in the intervention and recovery processes involved in treating addiction and problem gambling.
22 Prevention Specialist Training (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
An alcohol and drug abuse core prevention course to provide the basic knowledge and skills necessary for prospective prevention specialists to work effectively in prevention at the individual, social, and community levels, including learning prevention history, current strategies and recent developments.
23 Batterers’ Intervention Facilitator Training (3)
Lecture 3 hours.
Note: This course provides 54 hours of continuing education for CADC I
& II, NCAC/MAC, CATC and MFT/LCSW; also through an officially
approved provider number for licenses and certificates.
Designed to meet the standards contained in California Penal Code 1203.098 for Probation Department approved batterers’ intervention facilitators. Provides basic knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate batterers’ rehabilitation groups. Examines co-morbidity factors between domestic violence, substance abuse and addictions. Presents lesson plans and explanations for their use in a California “approved” 52-week intervention program for batterers.
91 Field Work for Addiction Personnel (3)
Lecture 1 hour; Laboratory 5 hours.
Prerequisite: Addiction Studies 9 with a grade of “C” or better
Supervised practicum, internship served at an addiction treatment and recovery facility to acquire, during the semester, 150 of the 300 hours required by the California Office of Alcohol and Drug Programs, and the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Educators (CAADE).