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Counseling
COU-728 The Cycle of Substance Abuse
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The goal of this course is to help professionals working with deaf and hard of hearing people understand the impact of drug and alcohol abuse throughout the individual’s life span as well as within family and social systems. The course will examine current trends in alcohol and drug abuse; legal implications; street names and drug symptom identifiers for counselors; the medical implications for prescription and non-prescription drug abuse; substance abuse terminology; the historical context of substance abuse in American society; community responses to substance abuse; essentials of substance abuse prevention; deafness, family dynamics, and substance abuse; and substance abuse treatment strategies and service accessibility.
Graduate level standing.
Program: Counseling
Credit: 3
COU-351
Techniques of Student…
This course focuses on the acquisition of the…
Credits 1
COU-352
This course, the second in the series, focuses…
COU-395
Special Topics
Special topics in the discipline, designed primarily for…
Credits 1-5
COU-330
Introduction to the…
When taught for 3 credits, this course is…
Credits 3-4
COU-794
Internship II in…
This course is the final in a sequence…
Credits 3
COU-795
Grading System: letter grades only.
Credits 1-3