Addictions Counselling

This is a four-year baccalaureate program with a diploma exit option. The program provides you with the competencies required for interventions appropriate to individuals, families, and communities experiencing a variety of compulsive behaviors such as substance abuse, gambling, and eating or sexual disorders. You complete the first four semesters of the program at Medicine Hat College. To complete the baccalaureate degree, you will be required to take your final four semesters at the University of Lethbridge. The diploma option requires you to complete an additional fifth and final semester at Medicine Hat College. The final diploma semester is available only through Medicine Hat College.This unique program prepares you with knowledge of a range of dependencies and with multilevel intervention skills. After graduation, you will be able to promote healthy lifestyles in urban and rural settings and with diverse populations. This program, which is the only one of its kind in Canada, equips you with strong community-based skills and the potential to enhance the protective factors related to the resilience of individuals, families, and communities. You will find the field appealing as a healthy, high functioning individual, or if you have experienced addictions in your own life and have achieved a level of stability and functioning that enables you to counsel others successfully.

Field of study: Substance Abuse/Addiction Counselling