2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Addiction Counseling and Prevention Department
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Kelly Bass, Chairperson
Center for Health Education, Room 205
(605) 658-5950
acap@usd.edu
www.usd.edu/acp
FACULTY
Assistant Professors:
John Korkow, Ph.D., Licensed Addiction Counselor, Substance Abuse Professional
Instructor:
Amy Orr, MA, NCC, Licensed Addiction Counselor
Kari Termansen, MA, Licensed Addiction Counselor
Brennan Thompson, MSW, CSW-PIP, Licensed Addiction Counselor; Program Director
Lecturer:
Erin Nielsen Ogdahl, J.D., CSW, Licensed Addiction Counselor
Melissa Dittberner, Ph.D., Certified Prevention Specialist
Professor Emeritus:
Diane Sevening, Ed.D., Master Addiction Counselor, Licensed Addiction Counselor
Mary Merrigan, Ed.D., Master Addiction Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Addiction Counselor
MAJOR:
Addiction Counseling and Prevention, B.S.
Learning Outcomes:
Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will comprehensively explore addiction issues, before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion, and combine or synthesize existing ideas, or expertise in original ways reflecting a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and individualization in working with the addictive population.
Information Literacy - Students will recognize when there is a need for specific addiction information and identify, locate, evaluate and responsibly use this information to address the need or problem at hand with individuals or groups.
Ethical Reasoning – Students will be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems as they relate to addiction issues and recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different ethical perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas in addiction and consider the ramifications of alternative actions.
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity – Students will become aware of the diversity among the addicted population in ways that increase self awareness, knowledge, and empathic understanding in delivering effective counseling strategies in both individual and group settings.
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Treatment
Prevention
MINOR:
Addiction Counseling and Prevention
SCHOLARSHIPS
Please contact the department for additional information about available scholarships and awards. Also see School of Health Sciences for school level scholarships.
- Faithe Family Scholarship - AD Studies
- John R. Williams Memorial Scholarship
- Lulu B. Wheeler ADAS Scholarship
- Stacey Myers Memorial Scholarship
Student Learning Outcomes for Addiction Counseling and Prevention (B.S.)
- Students will comprehensively explore issues, ideas, artifacts and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion, and combine or synthesize existing ideas, images or expertise in original ways reflecting a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
- Students taking the 422L/522L ACP Treatment Continuum course will comprehensively explore issues, ideas, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion, and combine or synthesize existing ideas, images or expertise in original ways reflecting a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
- Students will recognize when there is a need for information and identify, locate, evaluate and effectively and responsibly use and convey that information to address the need or problem at hand.
- Students will recognize when there is a need for information and identify, locate, evaluate and effectively and responsibly use and convey that information to address the need or problem at hand. The students taking ACP 426/526 will identify a community need and formulate a grant and service-learning project to address this need. Various aspects of information literacy will be utilized in researching, evaluating and conveying the information.
- Students will be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different ethical perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas and consider the ramifications of alternative actions.
- Students taking the ACP 315 Legal and Ethical Issues in Substance Abuse will be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different ethical perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas and consider the ramifications of alternative actions.
- Students will intentionally engage with diversity in ways that increase awareness, content knowledge, cognitive sophistication, and empathic understanding of the complex ways individuals interact within systems and institutions leading to opportunities for equal access to participation in educational and community programs for all members of society.
- All students taking the ACP 412/512 Diverse Population course will intentionally engage with diversity in ways that increase awareness, content knowledge, cognitive sophistication, and empathic understanding of the complex ways individuals interact within systems and institutions leading to opportunities for equal access to participation in community programs for all members of society.
- Students will connect ideas and experiences in order to synthesize and transfer learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus.
- Students will connect ideas and experiences in order to synthesize and transfer learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus. All senior ACP majors are required to complete 3 credit hours of Individual Addiction Counseling Laboratory taught by ACP Faculty.
Programs
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