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  4. Graduate Certificate in Addictions Treatment and Prevention

Graduate Certificate in Addictions Treatment and Prevention

1 Year On Campus Certificate Program

Georgian College

Program Overview

In this graduate level program, students learn to provide a client-centred and client driven continuum of treatment for individuals with addiction problems. With a solid framework of individual and group counseling skills, the students study individual, gender and societal considerations and the resulting treatment implications. They practise motivational interviewing techniques and learn the importance of matching client needs with intervention options. In addition, students reconstruct education and prevention strategies and design, facilitate and evaluate such tools.

Program Key Stats

$16854 (Annual cost)



90 %

Eligibility Criteria


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Additional Information & Requirements

Post-secondary diploma, or degree, with a specialty in human, health or social sciences, College or university transcripts with proof of graduation, subjects taken, and grades received, Resum outlining work/volunteer/internship experiences, Letter of intent stating reason for applying, Test scores: TOEFL iBT of 89, IELTS of 6.5, CAEL of 60.

Career Options

  • Career opportunities may include addictions counsellors
  • substance abuse counsellors
  • chemical withdrawal management counsellors
  • addictions nurses
  • problem gambling counsellors and attendants in residential
  • out-patient
  • and street-front treatment settings

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