Addiction
Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT
EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM: Associate in Arts
Note:
Associate in Arts in Addiction Studies and Certificate of Completion in
Addiction Studies will not be offered beyond June 30, 2004.
1 UNDERSTANDING
ADDICTION AND COUNSELING
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
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:PHARMACOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
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 psycho-physical,cultural,and social implications
will be presented.
4 ADDICTION
COUNSELOR TRAINING
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
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
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
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.
6 MANAGEMENT
SKILLS FOR ADDICTION PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
Deals with law and ethics, community prevention, education, outreach and
referral, and personal and professional growth. Provides training in the
basic managerial skills and principles necessary
to function effectively at supervisory, administrative, or managerial
levels in chemical dependency programs, health care settings, and agencies.
7 ADDICTION
TREATMENT AND RECOVERY
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
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.
8 SPECIAL
ISSUES IN ADDICTION
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
Prevention, education, outreach and referral. Incorporating three issues
in the field of chemical dependency: services for chemically dependent
women; youth and prevention; and the initial visit.
9 FIELD
WORK FOR ADDICTION PERSONNEL
Prerequisite:Addiction Studies 1 or 2 | Lecture: 1 hour, field placement
minimum of 5 hours per week3 UNITS RPT2
Supervised practicum, internship. Participants must be already knowledgeable
about chemical dependency. An opportunity to document at least 100 hours
working at an agency or in some situation directly in the field of chemical
dependency, in addition to the classroom hours. Those seeking CAADC 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
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
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.
11 DRINKING
DRIVER PROGRAMS PERSONNEL TRAINING
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 2 hours, lab 3 hours 3 UNITS
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 AND LIFE-STYLE DISORDERS
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
Course 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 behavior; violence addiction battering,
child abuse, and incest, including forms of state-sanctioned violence.
14 ADDICTION
AND THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
Focuses on developmental stages of body, mind, emotion, spirit (values
and morals), and relationships, as they are affected 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
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
The basic principles and concepts of sociology with special emphasis upon
the social phenomenon of chemical dependency, as it affects the family,
and large sociological groups such as women, senior citizens, ethnic minorities,
et al.
16 CONTINUING
RECOVERY: SPECIFIC STRATEGIES AND BASIC SKILLS
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
Course covers specific strategies and basic life skills found to be essential
to consolidate on-going mature recovery from the disease of addiction
including diet and exercise; therapy for core
issues;emotional expression;cognitive restructuring;self-esteem, values
clarification; and spiritual growth and development.
17 WOMEN
AND ADDICTION 3 UNITS
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours
A comparative analysis of women who become addicted. Relates to those
unique factors which 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
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
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
Prerequisite: None | Lecture: 3 hours 3 UNITS
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.
921 COOPERATIVE
EDUCATION
2 UNITS RPT3
931 COOPERATIVE
EDUCATION
3 UNITS RPT3
941 COOPERATIVE
EDUCATION
4 UNITS RPT3
Supervised training is conducted in the form of on-the-job training in
an employment area that will enhance the student's educational goals.
Limits to transfer credit: See Cooperative Education Credit Guide.
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