What’s included in our Level 2 Award in Understanding Substance Misuse course?

Your lessons are designed so that they are interactive with group discussions. There is lots to explore within the course including some of the following; the assumptions, stereotypes and attitudes of addiction, the signs and symptoms of different drug types and ways of administration, how these affect the user and the wider community.

Why choose us?

This course is delivered fully online by Eljin Keeling-Johnson, who brings to the course his professional experiences of working for seven years in a drug and rehabilitation unit, where he honed his counselling and coaching skills, helping individuals achieve emotional healing and growth.

Our course is approved by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB).

Awarding Body

The Counselling And Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB) is a specialised awarding body managed by professional practitioners, supervisors, trainers, etc. It is the UK’s biggest provider of counselling qualifications, in which there are 130 recognised training centres in the UK with 10,000 candidates registered annually.

Ethical Framework

The BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in the Counselling Professions (2018) is central to the philosophy, approach and operation of the programme, and all programme training staff agree to work within it. The Ethical Framework can be downloaded from www.bacp.co.uk.

The New BACP SCoPEd Framework requires all counsellors to have the "ability to understand core issues relating to the role of psychiatric drugs, dependence and withdrawal and the implications these have for clients or patients in therapy" 2.6.a (A, B and C Therapists)

Course Requirements

You will be required to attend 4 days of training, split into 2 weekends, 8th and 9th August 2026, and the 22nd and 23rd August 2026, totalling 30 guided learning hours. There will be a requirement to show evidence of your learning.

Entry Requirements

18 years or over,

Able to cope with course content, (Support available). Ability to translate intra-personal experience into language.

Able to benefit from self-development and self-awareness.

Awareness of difference and diversity