COUC 691 Substance Abuse: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling · Psychology, counseling and social work · Updated

COUC 691 pairs Capuzzi and Stauffer's Foundations of Addictions Counseling with Miller and Rollnick's Motivational Interviewing. These samples follow a composite case manager at a Lubbock recovery residence who researches the Texas Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor rules, resists the righting reflex with a college student, sits in on a Big Book study, a step meeting, a candlelight NA meeting and a clubhouse meeting, explains members' stories with genetic, conditioning, self-medication and sociocultural models, and closes with two Al-Anon meetings on detachment with love.

CourseCOUC 691 Substance Abuse: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention (COUC691)
Credit hours3
ProgramMA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work8 of 8
Samples on this site8 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published COUC 691 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What COUC 691 covers

The four forums sit in Modules/Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8; every thread stays between 350 and 450 words, both replies stay between 200 and 300, and the last forum cannot be written until the student has been to two Al-Anon meetings.

The credential paper opens the course in Module/Week 1, the AA and NA papers follow in Modules/Weeks 3 and 5, and the two-part models paper comes in Module/Week 7; the first three run six to seven pages with three or four outside sources.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes COUC 691 Substance Abuse: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention this way:
This course is designed to introduce the student to current theories and etiology of addictions and addictive behaviors, including strategies for prevention, intervention, and treatment. The identification of standard screening and assessment instruments for substance use disorders and process addictions are practiced, as well as screening for aggression, and danger to self and/or others, as well as co-occurring mental disorders are reviewed. The course also describes appropriate counseling strategies when working with clients with addiction and co-occurring disorders in a multicultural society.

COUC 691 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1Substance Abuse Certification Paper (Course Requirements Checklist and Quizzes 1 to 3 also due)100Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2DB Forum 1 (Quizzes 4 to 6 also due)50Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3Experiential Paper 1: AA (Quizzes 7 and 8 also due)100Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4DB Forum 2 (AA) (Quizzes 9 to 11 also due)50Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5Experiential Paper 2: NA (Quizzes 12 and 13 also due)100Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6DB Forum 3 (NA) (Quizzes 14 to 16 also due)50Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Theoretical Models and Approaches: Experiential Paper (Quizzes 17 to 19 also due)100Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8DB Forum 4 (Al-Anon) (Quiz 20 also due)50Read the Week 8 sample

Where COUC 691 papers lose points

COUC 691 papers lose credit when a credential paper quotes a training vendor instead of the state's own rules, when meeting papers retell events without tying them to research, when a member could be recognized from the details given, and when the models paper names a theory without showing which parts of the story it explains.

Using a COUC 691 sample well

The samples draw on Capuzzi and Stauffer, Miller and Rollnick, Chapter 562 of the Texas Administrative Code, the federal addiction counseling competencies, Eby and colleagues, Olmstead and colleagues, Miller and Rose, Moyers and Miller, Smedslund and colleagues, Project MATCH, Moos and Moos, Tonigan and colleagues, Walitzer and colleagues, Litt and colleagues, Kelly and colleagues, Witkiewitz and Marlatt, Toumbourou and colleagues, Kelly and Westerhoff, Khantzian, Prendergast and colleagues, Ashford and colleagues, Hettema and colleagues, Verhulst and colleagues, Carter and Tiffany, Robins, Orford and colleagues, and Miller, Meyers and colleagues.

COUC 691 questions, answered

Is COUC 691 the same as CEFS 691?

Both listings use one course guide, so the textbooks, the eight-module schedule and every graded assignment match; students in either listing can use these samples.

How many quizzes are in COUC 691?

The course has 20 quizzes worth 20 points apiece, every one tied to a single textbook chapter, open book, with ten multiple-choice or true-false items to finish in 30 minutes.

Which meetings does COUC 691 require?

Two Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for the Module/Week 3 paper, two Narcotics Anonymous meetings for the Module/Week 5 paper and at least two Al-Anon meetings for the final forum.

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