旨在提供帮助过程的工作知识，因为它适用于药物和酒精咨询, students completing this course should be able to: develop assessment and diagnostic skills; formulate appropriate goals, and treatment plans; improve interviewing and intervention skills with drug/alcohol clients; discuss and compare individual, 集团, and family treatment approaches; describe the levels of service available to drug/alcohol clients and their families; use AA, AL-ANON and other support 集团s as treatment allies; appreciate the impact of sex, 年龄, 种族, race and religion on the treatment process; and understand the American Psychiatric Association's (DSM V) assessment of substance use disorders, 反社会人格和抑郁症.