SUD500 Individual, Group and Family Counseling

This course will examine the process and components of Individual, Group and Family counseling used by SUD counselors.

• Counseling is a relationship in which the counselor helps the client to  mobilizes resources to resolve his/her problems and/or to modify attitudes and values.

• Exploration of a problem, its ramification and examination of attitudes and feeling; consideration of alternative solutions; decision making; therapeutic approaches, (e.g., Reality Therapy, RET; Brief Therapy, Motivational Interviewing; etc. )

• Provisions of services to special populations, co-occurring disorders, people with disabilities, cultural differences and criminal justice, etc. 

• Family Counseling related to substance use issues; Theories of family codependency; techniques for motivating family involvement in the treatment process; techniques of multifamily group counseling; working with family Therapists, selecting Therapists for family work; counselor identification of limitations relating to family issues. 

• Group Counseling: Purpose and function of different types of counseling groups; models of group; group techniques; stages of group development; group interventions; group patterns; therapeutic factors in groups; expression, commitment, process groups, didactic training; role of the counselor and group orientation.