Upon completion of the Alcohol and Drug Counseling program at RCTC, students will achieve the following outcomes:
- Show proper use of the 12 core functions of a substance use counselor in clinical settings.
- Demonstrate, recognize, and exhibit professional standards by using legal, ethical, developmental, and culturally responsive counseling practice.
- Utilize a wide variety of crisis, educational, counseling or case management evidence-based methods, theories, skills, and interventions.
- Recognize how diversity, human development, or ecological systems influence etiology, case conception, prevention, and treatment of co-occurring and substance use disorders.
- Develop and foster relationships with behavioral health clients, professionals, organizations, and treatment agencies.
- Acquire familiarity with client and community resources, needs, and services.
- Assist clients in creating and maintaining a wholistic healthy lifestyle.
- Explore a wide variety of behavioral health careers and discern the requirements needed to work in that field.
- Evaluate how pharmacology influences a person’s ability to function in life, society, and the world.