An Overview of Addiction Treatment..........14 CEUs

This course is intended to prepare students to practice in the field of substance abuse treatment. The course will present an integrative biopsychosocial model for the understanding and treatment of substance abuse. Course content includes an overview of the history of substance abuse, a review of models of addiction, a multidimensional model of the addiction process, the physiological affects of commonly abused substances, assessment and diagnosis of substance abuse disorders, an examination of treatment effectiveness, and specific clinical skills and treatment strategies for individual adult clients, adolescents, and families.