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  • COUN 7700: Adv Substance Use Disorder Cou

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed to equip students with advanced counseling skills to treat individuals with substance use disorder (SUD). The course covers screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for people with SUDs. Students learn how to utilize motivational interviewing (Ml), apply the transtheoretical model of counseling (stages of change), and implement evidence based practice in the treatment of SUD and co-occurring conditions. Other topics discussed include working with groups and the professional ethics applicable to SUD counselors. The knowledge and skills outlined in the screening, assessment, and engagement domain of the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB) for the Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) and the Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CAADC) credentials are addressed.
    ShareCOUN 7700 - Adv Substance Use Disorder Cou

  • COUN 7710: Treatment Plan Collab & Refer

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed to equip students with knowledge of the treatment planning process and counseling strategies to guide addiction recovery and reduce relapse. Students learn about assessment and collaboration with the client, relapse prevention groups for co-occurring disorders, resources for the family, community resources to support recovery, rationale for a referral, client advocacy to facilitate continuity of care, relapse prevention therapies, case management activities for service coordination, documentation, and multiple pathways of recovery in treatment planning and referral. The knowledge and skills outlined in the treatment planning, collaboration, and referral domain of the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB) for the Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) and the Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CAADC) and relapse prevention counseling are the primary focus of this course. The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACPREP) Standards for the addiction counseling specialty area are also addressed.
    ShareCOUN 7710 - Treatment Plan Collab & Refer

  • COUN 7720: Gambling Addiction

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed for graduate students interested in working in community based human service systems and school counseling positions. Although directly applicable for those interested in the field of Problem Gambling/Gambling Addiction, alcohol and other drug rehabilitation treatment, the course material is also important for training professionals dealing with any target population. Since Problem Gambling/Gambling Addiction is inherent in all sectors of our society, it is important for human service professionals to understand Gambling Addiction and other Impulse Control Disorders, the dynamics of addiction and the special problems experienced by affected individuals.
    ShareCOUN 7720 - Gambling Addiction

  • COUN 7730: Addiction and the Family

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed for graduate students interested in working in community based human service systems and school counseling positions. Although directly applicable for those interested in the field of alcohol and other drug rehabilitation treatment, the course material is also important for training professionals dealing with any target population. Characteristics are features discussed in this course are not limited to those individuals that have grown up in dysfunctional families associated to substance abuse or dependence but familial dysfunction in general. Characteristics of this type of role development can be found in any family with dysfunction and are precursors for multiple mental health diagnoses ranging from mood and affective disorders as well as axis to involvement or disorders or personality. Additionally, since substance abuse and addiction is inherent in all sectors of our society, it is imperative for human service professionals to develop a comprehensive understanding of the pertinent assessment and evaluation procedures relevant to working with the substance abuse population.
    ShareCOUN 7730 - Addiction and the Family

  • COUN 7740: Sub Use Disord & Adv Grp Skill

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed for graduate students interested in working in community based human service systems and school counseling positions. Although directly applicable for those interested in the field of alcohol and other drug rehabilitation treatment, the course material is also important for training professionals dealing with any target population. This course integrates advanced group leadership practices and or interventions for the purpose of preparing counselors to appropriately facilitate/manage a process/psychoeducational group with a substance abuse focus. Additionally, since substance abuse and addiction is inherent in all sectors of our society, it is imperative for human service professionals to develop a comprehensive understanding of the pertinent assessment and evaluation procedures relevant to working with the substance abuse population.
    ShareCOUN 7740 - Sub Use Disord & Adv Grp Skill

  • COUN 7750: Prev, Edu & Treat of Sub Abuse

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Participants engage in the study of societal pressures, attempts to prevent substance abuse, and treatment strategies along with the comparative analysis of efficacy. Offered spring semester annually.
    ShareCOUN 7750 - Prev, Edu & Treat of Sub Abuse

  • COUN 7760: Opioid Abuse

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course includes an overview of the history of drugs of abuse and the biological bases of behavior including the neurological mechanisms of addiction. General categories of addictive substances are surveyed before embarking upon a more in-depth exploration of opioid compounds. The medicinal properties of a range of both licit and illicit opioids are discussed, as is the related abuse potential. Medications used to treat opioid use disorder are covered, as are the strategies of opioid substitution, opioid antagonism and harm reduction.
    ShareCOUN 7760 - Opioid Abuse

  • COUN 7770: Advocacy and Public Policy in Addictions and Recovery

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Advocacy and Public Policy in Addictions and Recovery
    ShareCOUN 7770 - Advocacy and Public Policy in Addictions and Recovery

  • COUN 7800: Issues/Technique Coun Athletes

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course examines current counseling strategies used with members of sport teams at the youth, high school, college and professional levels. Participants will explore current research in three main areas: motivation and life skill development, psychosocial development and career maturity.
    ShareCOUN 7800 - Issues/Technique Coun Athletes

  • COUN 7810: Sports Counseling Programming

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course offers students an overview of various life skills, including career development, study skills, goal setting, time management, health and wellness, values clarification, problem-solving, and decision-making, to name a few. Students will develop a teaching philosophy that includes methods for teaching life skills to the athlete population. They will be given opportunities to make presentations on topics of their interest so that they may teach or offer workshops on life skills to the athlete population.
    ShareCOUN 7810 - Sports Counseling Programming