ALDC 102 — Addictions Counseling: Professional Responsibilities
This course emphasizes standards for ensuring thorough documentation; ethical aspects of addictions counseling; the counselor's need for cultural competence, personal growth, and professional growth; counselor/client expectations based on goals, objectives, rules, and obligations; and the use of laboratory tests/results for determining a course of treatment. Students can rapidly transition into working positions as Counselor Interns in community treatment settings. Emphasis will be on ethics and legal conduct as well as skills of documentation and professional growth, given they are necessary work skills of today's practicing counselor.