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Overview
Substance abuse/addiction counseling is a program that prepares individuals to help prevent substance abuse, counsel individuals and families with drug and alcohol problems, and perform intervention and therapeutic services for persons suffering from addiction. includes instruction in individual and group counseling skills, psychology of addiction, sociology, crisis intervention, substance abuse identification methodologies, substance abuse treatment modalities, substance abuse prevention and treatment resources, pharmacology and behavioral aspects of abused substances, treatment evaluation, patient observation and education, group dynamics, professional standards and ethics, and applicable law and regulations.
Highlights
School with the highest reported median starting salary ($57K) with a Associate's Degree: West Hills College - Coalinga
Career with the highest median salary ($48K) associated with this program: Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors
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Careers for program graduates
Substance abuse/addiction counseling majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
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Salary and Debt
How are students who recently completed a degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling doing?
Below is the distribution of starting salaries along with accumulated federal and private education loans across schools that offer a degree in the field mental and social health services and allied professions, which includes
substance abuse/addiction counseling.
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Recommended careers for those with a degree in counseling psychology
Following are the jobs recommended for those who study Counseling Psychology (which combines 9 programs). These are listed in order of highest nationwide employment.
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Explore schools that offer substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees and certificates
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Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Related Programs
Top 10 similar programs
Following are related programs, ordered by those with the highest number of completions. You can explore a full list by pressing the more details button.
- Public Health
- Mental Health Counseling
- Public Health Education and Promotion
- Specialized Study in Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions
- Marriage and Family Therapy
- Psychiatric and Mental Health Services Technician
- Specialized Study in Public Health
- Health Services Administration
- Community Health Services Liaison
- Community Health and Preventive Medicine
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Careers for counseling psychology majors
counseling psychology is part of a larger collection of programs: Community and Public Health. Is there a different program that's close to counseling psychology that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
Gender
Gender of recent graduates
Of all people with any degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling earned in the last academic year, 68% were women.
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Context: Gender representation
How does the gender distribution in this major compare to all other majors?
Context: Percentage women
This major has a higher percentage of women than 67% other programs.
Distribution: salaries by gender
Does gender greatly influence your salary with this degree? The closer the bar are, the less discrepancy there is.
Context: Salary inequity
For counseling psychology graduates, men have a 7% higher median salary than women, This is better than many: 92% of programs have graduates with higher salary inequities.
Race/Origin
Race/Origin of recent graduates
Here is an overview of race/origin for all substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates from this last academic year. We found a lower percentage of international graduates than in 64% of other programs.
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Context: Percentage of Minority Graduates
Minority students comprise a lower percentage of graduates than in 48% of other programs.
