PSY 6326 Addictions Counseling
This course provides a foundation in different ways of theoretically conceptualizing addiction psychopathologies as well as working clinically with individuals with addictions. The latter includes discussion of individual and group treatment as well as in different levels of care (e.g., residential, halfway house, intensive outpatient, etc.). Although the existential-phenomenological and psychodynamic theories are emphasized as reflecting ways to understand the human person suffering from an addiction, other theoretical traditions such as motivational interviewing and 12-step approaches are also considered.