Pre-Service Educational Resources

Course description: This course examines the incidence and etiology of chemical dependence and its impact on adolescents, families, and society. The course also addresses physiological, psychosocial, and cultural aspects of psychoactive substances in relation to adolescents, adolescent assessment techniques and classification of substance use disorders, and special characteristics of adolescents of diverse population groups, particularly those at high risk.

Course description: This course focuses on current issues impacting addiction. Living with drugs, how drugs work-their use and addiction; major drugs involved in substance use disorders (SUD); drugs and crime; the social impact of drugs; prevention, treatment and education are addressed.

Course description: This course discusses the causes and consequences of addiction as they relate to the individual, family, community, and society. Response alternatives regarding intervention, treatment, education, and prevention are reviewed.

Course description: This course is designed to enhance the student’s understanding of selected topics in the area of addiction counseling, including the preparation for the licensed chemical dependency counselor examination process. The selected topic will be designed to give insight into the complex fields of druguse disorders, compulsive behaviors, treatment, recovery and prevention or how to prepare for the licensure examination.

Course description: This course will focus on aspects of substance use disorder prevention from a public health model. Topics include the history of prevention, risk and protective factors among youth, community-based prevention strategies, an overview of program design and evaluation, and resources for prevention planning.

Course description: This course is an advanced substance use disorder prevention course. Using the reduction of underage drinking as a model for prevention, the course will focus on aspects of substance use disorder prevention from a public health model, including characteristics and consequences of underage use, and environmental factors that contribute to youth use of substances. Keywords; Adolescents

Syllabus for the course "Problems of Substance Abuse and Addiction." Course description: A generalist course in addiction counseling at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). The course provides an overview of the current state of addiction counseling and prevention services. It is designed for individuals who plan to work indirectly with individuals or families impacted by addiction (e.g., child welfare workers, police officers, nurses, teachers, etc.). Keywords: University Course Disclaimer: This resource was developed prior to the launch of the ATTC Network's initiative on person-first and recovery oriented language. As such, it uses outdated terminology that is not aligned with current standards. Network representatives were unable to obtain permission to modify the existing resource, and recommend that should you use these sources to develop your own, that you embrace the current language best practices.