Drugs, Solvents and Alcohol Abuse Counselling Level 4

About This Course

The Drugs Solvent and Alcohol Abuse Counselling Level 4 online course will give you a comprehensive understanding of dependence theories and counselling ethics as you learn to assist individuals in overcoming destructive behaviours, providing support, guidance, and rehabilitation.

This course delves into the ethics, skills, approaches, and techniques essential for providing counselling services to individuals struggling with drugs, solvents, and alcohol. You’ll explore counselling theories and skills, working with substance abusers, understanding the pathological components of alcohol abuse, and much more.

Uncover the root causes of addiction and play a crucial role in the road to recovery.

Course Benefits

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 will:

• Help you to develop a strong foundation of knowledge and competency that can be transferred into your work.
• Enable you to study on your own terms – no classrooms, no strict deadlines and no exams.
• Allow you to study from home – all course materials will be sent straight to your door, enabling you to fit your studies around your obligations.

Course Units

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

Assessment

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.

Required Knowledge

No prior knowledge or skills in this area are needed in order to enrol onto this course, making it ideal for those just starting out in this career field.

Awarding Body

Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive certification from National Institution of Qualifications (NIOQ).

This course has been designed to meet the requirements of specific learners or employers. It is endorsed by National Institution of Qualifications, meaning the course has undergone external quality checks to ensure that they are maintained and delivered to an excellent standard.

National Institution of Qualifications are a national certificating organisation. Endorsement of our courses ensures learners have access to high quality materials that cover all learning outcomes, helping them to achieve their potential.

Support

From the guidance of our personal tutors whose industry experience will help to support and mentor your studies, to our comprehensive study guide and course materials; from day one we will go above and beyond to help you succeed in your studies. With twelve months tutor support, you have the option of completing in as little as three months, or using the full twelve months.

You too can take advantage of the extensive knowledge base of our personal tutors and use their experiences to get all of your questions answered. Similarly, our student support team are readily available to lend you their advice and guidance as they help you to decipher your course materials and answer your questions.

Only one click away, you can trust that help will be there when you need it.