Drugs Solvent and Alcohol Abuse Counselling QLS Level 4

What does a drug and alcohol counsellor do?

By using various methods, drug and alcohol counsellors will help provide assistance to help their clients overcome destructive behaviour, offering support, guidance, and rehabilitation. They will also try and help to expose the root cause of the addiction, which can sometimes be a big step in the road to recovery. This Drugs Solvent and Alcohol Abuse Counselling QLS Level 4 course focuses on the ethics, skills, approaches and techniques of providing a counselling service to users of drugs, solvents and alcohol. During the course you will explore counselling skills and theory, working with substance abusers, pathological components of alcohol abuse, and much more. All course materials will be delivered to you by post or online, so it couldn't be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors will help you every step of the way by email. You can work at your own pace. Completed coursework can be delivered by post or via email, so handing in an assignment is simple. Boost your career opportunities and equip yourself with the skills you need for your long-term success. Home learning is easy and stress-free, so enrol with us today! What next? There are several avenues you can go down once you have successfully completed this course. You could take a look at our other counselling  courses, or you could further your education by studying a counselling degree at university. If you want to work in counselling using your Drugs, Solvent and Alcohol Abuse Counselling Level 4 qualification, here are just a few of the jobs you could explore (depending on your credentials):

• Substance abuse counsellor
• Clinical supervisor
• Community health worker
• Probation officer
• Mental health counsellor
• Social and community service worker

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Course Content

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