Cultural Humility and Responsive Practice in SUD Group Counseling
Practical skills for inclusive, respectful, and effective group facilitation.
Course Code: AODCEU-CHGC-001 • Self-Paced Online / Home Study
COURSE OVERVIEW
Cultural Humility and Responsive Practice in SUD Group Counseling
A practical, skills-focused continuing education course for SUD counselors who facilitate groups. The course emphasizes cultural humility, communication, group safety, language access, inclusive structure, respectful accountability, culturally responsive adaptation of counseling skills, and recovery capital.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Learning objectives
- Distinguish cultural competence, cultural humility, and culturally responsive practice in SUD group counseling.
- Identify how culture, communication, stigma, language, power, trauma, and prior system experiences can influence group participation.
- Use counselor self-awareness to reduce assumptions, stereotyping, and premature clinical labeling.
- Apply inclusive group structure, participation options, and communication strategies without weakening clinical expectations.
- Respond to stereotypes, cultural conflict, and facilitator mistakes in ways that protect dignity, safety, accountability, and learning.
- Identify cultural and community strengths that can function as recovery capital and incorporate them into group planning.
COURSE STRUCTURE
2 focused learning modules
The locked course architecture provides 90 designed instructional minutes and 10 required formative application checks plus a 10-question cumulative final. Course-specific module content is preserved in the controlling master and is not altered by this public page.
COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS
What is required to complete the course
Progress through the full 90-minute course structure and required learning activities.
The course includes 10 required application checks. They are formative and do not determine the final course grade.
A minimum score of 80%—8 of 10 correct—is required.
Learner feedback is required before the completion workflow can advance.
The learner must electronically attest that they personally completed the required course activities and assessments.
ASSESSMENT
Application checks and final exam
Application checks
The course includes 10 required application checks. They are formative and do not determine the final course grade.
Final exam
The cumulative final contains 10 scored questions. The passing standard is 80% (8/10).
Answer keys and grading logic are administrative controls and are not exposed on the public course page.
CERTIFICATE & PROVIDER STATUS
Certificate available after successful completion
Certificate eligibility requires completion of all modules, all required application checks, a passing final-exam score, the course evaluation, and the learner attestation.
AOD CEU Workshop is CADTP Approved CE Provider #309. CEUs are currently offered for CADTP; CCAPP and CAADE approval is planned for the future. Certificates are issued after all course-completion requirements are met.
LEARNER ACCESS
How to access your course
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After enrollment is confirmed, your course appears in My Account. Sign in with the learner account used for enrollment.
The course player tracks required lessons, application checks, the final exam, evaluation, attestation, and certificate eligibility.
Enroll using the course link, then open your course from My Account. Certificates become available after all completion requirements are met.
ENROLLMENT STATUS
Open for enrollment
This page previews the course. Purchase the course and sign in to access the lessons. Certificates are issued after all course-completion requirements are met.