Addictive Behaviours
PostgraduateTAS-KHA6012025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Addictive Behaviours
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Communicate theories and processes of the main models of addiction treatment in an accessible and culturally sensitive way.
- Facilitate client engagement by synthesising relevant information, assessing psychosocial needs, aligning treatments and refining referral capabilities.
- Use a variety of addiction counselling skills when working with clients.
- Apply self-reflective processes to evaluate your own addiction counselling competence.
- Introduction to the Unit
- Policy and Strategy
- Addiction, Physiological and Behavioural Aspects
- Theories of Addictive Behaviour - MI & SDT
- Theories of Addictive Behaviour - Other
- Assessment – Formats, Processes & Planning Outcomes
- Treatment – Models and Matching
- Referral Pathways & Processes
- Continuum of Engagement – The Service Delivery Spectrum
- Individual Counselling – MI & SDT
- Individual Counselling – Existential, CBT and Other Model
- Group-work – Psychotherapeutic and Psychoeducational
- Specific Populations – Complex, Adolescent & Mandated Clients
- Specific Populations – Comorbid, Homeless, LGBTQIA+ & Culturally Diverse Clients
This subject provides you with an introduction to studies in addictive behaviours in preparation for employment in the areas of alcohol and other substance counselling, treatment and prevention. It provides an overview of models of treatment and prevention of addictive behaviours with an emphasis on substance use disorders and behavioural addictions, such as gambling. Policy options and approaches to drug education and harm reduction are also introduced.
- Role-play (30%)
- Case Study (40%)
- Self-Reflection (30%)
- Practice Skills Log Sheet (0%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-COU-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Counselling
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 3 x 3-hr workshops; 4 x 1-hr live online discussions, 10 hrs per week online content and activities.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Diploma in Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-COU-GDI