Drugs, Solvents and Alcohol Abuse Counselling Level 3

This course assesses the following units:

Unit 1: Counselling relationships and dependence

• What is substance misuse and dependence
• Counselling theories and approaches
• Approaches to counselling
• Exploring dependence
• Why do people become addicted?
• Counselling ethics

Unit 2: Working with alcohol abusers

• Alcohol abuse
• Factors influencing consumption of alcohol
• Working with alcoholics
• Approaches to dealing with alcohol misuse
• Cycle of change model
• Specific issues with alcohol misusers

Unit 3: Working with substance misusers

• The effects of substance misuse
• The brain and central nervous system
• Drug laws
• Counselling substance misusers
• How to tackle substance abuse situations

Unit 4: Person-centred approaches to misuse counselling

• Carl Rogers
• Maslows hierarchy of needs
• Existential approaches
• Pros and cons of the person-centred approach

Unit 5: Psychodynamic approaches to misuse counselling

• Psychodynamic approach theory
• Carl Jung
• Object relations theory
• Psychodynamic theory
• Limitations of the approach

Unit 6: Cognitive approaches to misuse counselling

• Cognitive approach theory
• Social learning theory
• Behaviour and learning reviews
• Cognitive behavioural therapy

This course can be taken over a 12 month period but you can complete it as fast or as slowly as you wish

To pass this course learners must pass 6 assignments. These are completed after navigating through the corresponding lessons and writing your answers to assignment questions. Once these have been read and marked by your personal tutor, feedback and marks are provided to students which contain helpful tips to improve work in future assignments.