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california treatment center

Posted by Stacy on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:24 PM

I have just finished my paper that should solidify for me and A in my summer course that is finished as of tomorrow at two. I have to hand in this paper today and then I have my final tomorrow which I think I will just knock out of the park because I know the material so well. The class is a counseling education program designed to be a very in depth look at the inner workings of the world of drug treatment programs. It is probably the most in death class I have taken quite yet that has actually centered around programs and not just theory. For the class we had to do projects like building up treatments plans and daily schedules for a character sketch we were each given.

The paper that I just finished was a research project about a California treatment center in which I was assigned to explore their style of treatment. For this project the research was probably the hardest because I basically had to do it all by corresponding with counselors inside of the program who are of course very busy with their work. I did get all of my information though and it turned in to a wonderful paper which I think bears a lot of merit in what kind of work I want to do after I graduate. The center specialized is drug treatment for men and I know this is what I want to do. I am all about equal sexual rights but I know that treatment for abuse and substance issue seems to work a lot better and a lot faster when it is with a similar gender group.

In my correspondence with the counselors at the center I also got some great references and numbers to call if I ever need a job. I think that this is one of those projects that college is meant to provide which increases our knowledge of a topic while also giving us a way to explore what we're interested in working with. It is opportunities like this that really keep me excited about the next assignments I get each week in all my classes.