Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Addiction Studies: Prevention Efforts
Gain a better understanding of issues relating to substance abuse with this postbaccalaureate certificate program. Expand your career options. And hone your skills to work in schools, hospitals, mental health centers, and community service or treatment agencies where you can help others through counseling, treatment, or education.
Acquire Greater Skill in Recognizing and Preventing Chemical Dependency
Penn State’s postbaccalaureate certificate program focuses on the development of student assistance programs and includes course work on the guidance and counseling process, and trends and issues in addiction counseling. If you are a drug and alcohol counselor, human services educator, guidance counselor, or social worker, this program can provide you with insights that you can apply directly in your daily practice of chemical dependency prevention.
Gain additional understanding of:
- treatment settings available
- social impact
- legal response
- interview techniques
- assessment skills
- treatment plans
- treatment modalities
- impact on family
- self-help groups
- group facilitation
- prevention methods
- pathways to abuse
- skills to work with high-risk persons
Admission Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited undergraduate institution, or a college senior with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
- Students whose baccalaureate degree is not in a field substantially similar to counseling (psychology, rehabilitative services, human services, human development and family studies) and/or without substantive work experience must take CN ED 497 Foundations of Counseling and Guidance Processes prior to enrollment in the certificate program.
Approved by NAADAC and PCCAB
The certificate program in addiction studies is approved by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors and the Pennsylvania Chemical Abuse Certification Board. The courses can be taken individually for professional development as contact hours/CEUs or as a certificate program.
Add More Credentials to Your Résumé
You can apply the program’s 15 graduate-level credits toward a master’s or doctoral degree, based on specific degree program requirements. Talk with your adviser about how you can transfer credits from this program into a graduate program. Courses in this program may also be used as electives in the bachelor’s degree program in rehabilitation and human services.
Core Courses (15 credits)
CN ED 401 Foundations of Chemical Dependency Counseling (3 credits)
CN ED 416 Interpersonal Relationships and Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Dependency (3 credits)
CN ED 420 Chemical Dependency: Youth at Risk (3 credits)
CN ED 840 Trends and Issues in Addiction Counseling (3 credits)
CN ED 843 Prevention Strategies and Programming (3 credits)
