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Assessment Framed as Student Success

Assessment Framed as Student Success. Grace Creasman, M.Ed., MSW Addiction Studies A pproved NAADAC Education Provider. Assessment Framed as Student Success.

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Assessment Framed as Student Success

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  1. Assessment Framed as Student Success Grace Creasman, M.Ed., MSW Addiction Studies Approved NAADAC Education Provider

  2. Assessment Framed as Student Success • Well-designed assessment plans provide students with a Meta view (overview) of the ADST program. This view can move students towards intentional learning as they understand connections between competencies, courses, assessments, and post-graduation certification and on to employment.

  3. Where do the ADST Competencies come from? • Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) 21 Addiction Counselor Competencies The Knowledge Skills & Attitudes of Professional Practice • NAADAC Basics of Addiction Counseling: Desk Reference & Study Guide

  4. State & NAADAC Align • STATE Competencies based on Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) 21 Addiction Counseling Competencies. • NAADAC Basics of Addiction Counseling based off of TAP 21

  5. Understand the characteristics & Dynamics of families, couples & Significant others affected by substance use. • Is familiar with interaction patterns among substance users and their significant others for key cultural groups. • Observes and identifies the basic interactive characteristics of the client’s social system. • Readily identifies non productive systemic interactions and how they are likely to affect recovery within families, couples & significant others for a variety of diverse cultural groups.

  6. Matching Competencies with course Objectives • Competency/Objective Understand the characteristics & Dynamics of families, couples, & significant others affected by addiction. • Reading/Assignment Chapter 2: Impact of Substance Abuse on Families. Assignment: My Family Discussion Board: How Porn Addiction Affects the Family

  7. Facilitate the engagement of selected members of the family or significantothers in the treatment & recovery process • Understands processes for engaging the client’s social network in treatment activities • Secures participation in appropriate treatment activities for family members and/or significant others • Successfully engages members of the client’s social network in counseling and other interventions designed to meet treatment goals.

  8. Matching competencies with course Objectives • Competency/Objective Facilitate the engagement of selected members of the family, couple or significant others in the Treatment & Recovery process. • Reading/Assignment Chapter 1: What is Family? Assignment: Discussion Board – What constitutes a family & how would you help facilitate the engagement of selected family members for involvement in the treatment & recovery process?

  9. What does WA state Require? • Minimum Requirements: WAC 246-811-030, an associates degree in human services or related field from an approved school, or successful completion of 90 quarter or 60 semester college credits in courses from an approved school. At least 45 quarter or 30 semester credits must be in courses specific to alcohol and drug addicted individuals and must include the topics listed below (a – w)

  10. How’s That working for you? • How do we know that what we are teaching students is what they need to succeed?

  11. The NAADAC exam Matching Courses to Competencies • Level I Exam Includes: • Pharmacology of Psychoactive Substances 30% ADST 300, 412, 464, 442, 444 – 512, 501, 542, 544 • Counseling Practice 40% ADST 302, 303, 308, 410, 420, 430, 440, 446, 464 – 501, 502, 520, 546 • Theoretical Base of Counseling 15% ADST 300, 302, 308, 420, 442, 444, 446, 462, 464 – 520, 542, 544, 546 Professional Issues 15% ADST 300, 420, 430, 462, 460 – 504, 520, 530, 535

  12. What happens Now? • By the time our students graduate they will have completed or have the option to complete: • Required addiction related coursework for the state of WA • The NAADAC Level I examination • 400 Hours of practicum in a state agency to count toward the 2000 state required hours of experience.

  13. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs • Employment of substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors is expected to grow by 27 percent from 2010 to 2020, faster than the average for all occupations. Growth is expected as more people seek treatment for their addictions or other behaviors and drug offenders are increasingly sentenced to treatment rather than jail time.

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