May 31, 2026  
2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

AC 218 - Alcoholism Fieldwork II


Credit Hours: 3

Second required semester of supervised practice in alcoholism counseling. Course requires a minimum of 150 hours of clinical activities plus a supervision seminar during class time.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  1. demonstrate an increased knowledge of their learning of intake, individual, and group counseling skills;
  2. demonstrate an increased awareness of how the recovery process is impacted by other psychoactive substance dependencies, psychiatric disorders, and developmental conflicts including children of alcoholics’ residual issues and object relationship impairment;
  3. demonstrate an increased self-understanding of their own issues as they relate to becoming a substance abuse counselor through agency supervision, privileging, and clinical internship seminar; and
  4. demonstrate an understanding of schema therapy and its application to addiction clients.


Prerequisites: AC 217 or SA 116
F/S (C)