Counselling Skills for Addiction Professionals

This course provides the foundational counselling concepts and practice skills required when supporting individuals in the field of addiction. The focus will be on applying communication skills within the stages of interviewing. Emphasis will be placed on how to engage clients and to cultivate a helping relationship. A basic model of crisis intervention will be examined for a variety of crisis situations that are common in the field of addiction work. Through the use of experiential learning and audiovisual demonstrations, students will practice counselling skills using frameworks such as TTM and MI. With the integration of counselling concepts and techniques, students will develop a personal counselling approach.         

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