在该研究生课程中，学生将学习为成瘾问题患者提供以客户为中心和以客户为导向的连续治疗方法。在个人和团体咨询技能的坚实框架下，学生研究个人，性别和社会因素以及由此产生的治疗意义。他们练习激励性面试技巧，并了解将客户需求与干预选项相匹配的重要性。此外，学生将重建教育和预防策略并设计，促进和评估此类工具。职业机会可能包括成瘾咨询员，药物滥用咨询员，化学物质戒毒管理咨询员，成瘾护士，问题赌博咨询员以及在住宅，门诊和临街治疗场所的服务员。
Students develop the skill set to provide a client-centered and client driven continuum of treatment for individuals with addiction problems. With a strong framework of individual and group counselling skills, students study individual, gender, and societal considerations and the resulting treatment implications through the lens of trauma informed care. They practice motivational interviewing techniques, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and dialectal behaviour therapy (DBT) while learning to match client needs with intervention options. In addition, students reconstruct education and prevention strategies in an effort to design, facilitate and evaluate such tools.