Addictive Behaviours

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to: 

  1. Demonstrate an adequate understanding of the national social and policy context for provision of addiction counselling assessment & intervention
  2. Demonstrate a clear understanding of theories and process of the main models of addiction treatment
  3. Demonstrate understanding of, and capacity for, engagement, comprehensive psychosocial assessment, treatment matching and referral
  4. Demonstrate understanding of, and capacity to, undertake various forms of individual addiction counselling and group work
  5. Demonstrate the application of self-reflective processes in refinement of your own addiction counselling competence.

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• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About University of Tasmania

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• TAS-CHP-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Counselling for Health Professionals
• TAS-COU-GDI-2022 - 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:

• TAS-KHA501-Counselling Skills 1

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

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.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.