Course description
Are you passionate about helping others in their time of need? If so, the Drugs Solvent and Alcohol Abuse Counselling Level 4 online course is tailor-made for you.
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Training Course Content
Unit 1: The counselling relationship and basis for addictive behaviour
- Exploring substance misuse
- Review of counselling skills and theory
- Psychodynamic approach
- Behavioural and cognitive approach
- Humanist approach
- What is dependence?
- Theory specific to substance dependence
- The counselling relationship: ethical considerations
Unit 2: Substance abuse
- Classification and effects of psychoactive drugs
- Some background physiology
- Working with substance misusers
- Assessment and approach
- Basic assessment criteria
- Initial session suggestions
Unit 3: Alcohol abuse
- Introduction and discussion
- Models and approaches
- Pathological components of alcohol misuse
- Working with people who have alcohol related problems
- The twelve-step approach
- Specific issues
- Counselling tools
- Challenges
- Alcoholism
Unit 4: The cognitive approach
- Theoretical perspectives
- Pavlov and Skinner
- Behaviour and learning review
- Case formulation
- Analogies
- Modelling
- Role reversal
- Imagery
- Problem-solving skills
- Behavioural tasks
- Ending the CBT programme
Unit 5: The psychodynamic approach
- Theoretical perspectives
- Karl Jung
- Object relations and ego-psychology
- The psychodynamic model in substance and abuse counselling contexts
- Brief psychodynamic therapy
Unit 6: The person-centred approach
- Rogers and the person-centred approach
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- The existentialist approach
- Case studies
- Discussion about the person-centred approach
Course delivery details
Split into 6 units, every element of this course seeks to expand your understanding of this specialist area of counselling, so you can achieve the theoretical knowledge you need to apply these skills within real and practical settings.
This course is assessed using a series of written assignments that are designed to test your knowledge of the course materials. These will need to be sent to your personal tutor for marking, whereupon they will supply you with helpful tips and feedback. No external examinations are required.
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