GRADUATE CERTIFICATE
PROGRAMS
If you are looking for marketable, specialized skills to secure a career, consider
one of the graduate certificate programs at Georgian College. Graduate
studies at Georgian can fast-track you into the workplace in nine to 12
months with industry internships or placements. We will help you to develop
current, relevant, hands-on job skills in demand by business and agencies.
Most of our graduate certificate programs provide career internships or
other work experience components, which give you that important applied
experience for your resumé. Diverse in course content, they all share a
commitment to excellence and will provide you with marketable skills to
launch your chosen career!
Addictions: Treatment and Prevention
• Orillia • Three semesters, including a competency-based internship
• Start date: Fall
This program prepares students to provide a client-centred and client-driven
continuum of treatment for individuals with addiction problems. Building on a
solid framework of individual and group counselling skills, students extensively
study individual, gender and societal considerations and the resulting
treatment implications. The unique needs of selected populations are also
examined. While a range of treatment modalities is studied, special attention is
given to motivational interviewing and techniques and to the importance of
matching client needs with intervention options. In addition, the principles and
strategies of effective prevention and education are explored.
Graduate career opportunities
Graduates can expect to find employment as counsellors in addictions,
substance or chemical abuse and problem/compulsive gambling or as
attendants in residential, outpatient and street-front treatment settings.
For further information contact:
Heidi Stanley 705-325-2740, ext. 3076 heidi.stanley@georgiancollege.ca
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