Objectives

• Become familiar with some definitions of counselor identity from the counseling literature.
  
• Get acquainted with common themes related to counselor identity, such as professional competence, professional community, and professional self.
  
• Learn about Martin Heidegger's philosophical anthropology of the human person and how it can expand our understanding of counselors' professional identity.
  
• Be introduced to the idea of professional competence as related to counselors' beliefs and attitudes, knowledge of the profession's history, and professional skill set.
  
• Learn about the importance of belonging to a professional community and collaborating with other related helping professionals .
• Understand the basic tenets of ethical behavior.
  
• Integrate prior understanding with the knowledge acquired in this chapter.
  
• Use  moral principles to conceptualize an ethical dilemma.
• Identify an ethical dilemma within the context of an ethical decision-making model.
  

Objectives

• Explain the scope of practice and code of ethics for case managers
• Compare and contrast the code of ethics and scope of practice for case managers to that of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counselors and Social Workers

50 total hours

• 26 Hours of asynchronous academic work with videos,  12 Hours of interactive coursework via 2-hour weekly class meeting with Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes.
• 12 hours of supervision via a 2-hour weekly group supervision session with Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes.
• Required Text: TIP 41 Substance Abuse Treatment: Group Therapy
• Optional Text: TIP 57: Trauma-informed Care in Behavioral Health Services

Week 1

Group Counseling Introduction (2 Hours)

• Types of groups
• Differentiate between 12-step self-help groups and interpersonal process            
• Identify at least 10 advantages of group treatment

Trauma-Informed group practice (4 Hours)

• Creating safety
• Recognizing the impact of trauma on individual behaviors and reactions
• Group dynamics awareness

Week 2

Group Formation (2 Hours)

• Stages of group formation and stage-specific tasks
• Discuss how the client's stage of readiness for change affects group interventions

Group Counseling Skills and Interventions (2 Hours)

• Stages of treatment and goals for each stage
• Group counseling methods and skills 

Adult Learning Theory and Best Practices (2 Hours)

• Adult learning theory and learning styles
• Gamification in group therapy

Week 3

Group leadership (4 Hours)

• Concepts and techniques
• Facilitation skills including motivational enhancement and etiquette
• Using a structured curriculum to facilitate groups

Week 4

Communication skills (4 Hours)

• Empathy, active listening, rapport development
• Conflict management
• Emotion regulation and de-escalating runaway emotions

Week 5

Cultural Awareness (2 hours)

• Identify strategies for handling issues that arise when group norms and cultural values conflict
• Identify the six guidelines for clinicians on evaluating bias and prejudice

Discuss ways for increasing retention in groups (1 Hour)

Identify six of the most common errors the group leaders make and common group member fears (1 Hour)

Week 6

Group therapy ethics and confidentiality (2 Hours)

Group Documentation (2 Hours)

Final Written Exam

• Identify ethical issues in documentation (and lack thereof).
• Examine the types of information that should be documented.
• Identify the impact HIPAA has on record keeping ethics and procedures.
• Identify the types of information insurers often require in charts and the ethical implications .
• Explore ethical issues that arise with documentation when treating families, conducting groups, working in agencies, working with involuntary clients.

 Introduction to Case Management 

• Overview of Case Management (4 Hours)
• Standards of Practice for Case Management (2 Hours)
• Documentation (15 Hours)
• Medical terminology and documentation (2 Hours)

Foundations of Case Management 

• Lifespan issues in needs and approaches to treatment
  • Child Development 101: Parenting and Reparenting Through the Stages (8 Hours)
  • Examining Depression, Anxiety and Addiction Through a Developmental Lens (4 Hours)
  • Mental Health and the Elderly (6 Hours)
• Health and behavioral health risk and protective factors
  • Risk and Protective Factors for Co-Occurring Disorders (3 Hours)
  • Autoimmune Issues and Mental Health: Understanding the Interactions (4 Hours)
  • The Hypothalamic Pituitary Gonadal Axis and Mental Wellness (1 Hour)
  • Integrative Behavioral Health Master Class (30 Hours)
• Ethics and Confidentiality
  • Clinical Documentation and Ethical Issues (4 Hours)
  • Confidentiality, Ethics and HITECH Overview (3 Hours)
  • Risk and Disaster Management: An Ethical Issue (3 Hours
  • Case Management (and Counseling) Ethics (2 Hours)
  • Burnout Prevention (4 Hours)

Financial Aspects 

• Insurance principles; Public benefit programs and community resources; Cost containment, utilization management and managed care principles, sources and types of quality indicators (3 Hours)
•  Increasing Case Management Effectiveness (2 Hours)

Screening, Assessment and Placement 

• Assessment
  • Behavioral Health Assessment (4 Hours)
  • Behavioral Health Issues  (2 Hours)
  • Diagnosis and DSM V Overview (8 Hours)
  • Multicultural Issues in Counseling (20 Hours)
  • Child and Elder Abuse and Neglect (20 Hours)
• Placement
  • Assessment & Patient Placement Tools: Selection, Administration and Interpretation (4 Hours)
  • Patient Placement Criteria: Effective Use (4 Hours)
  • Physical Functioning Assessment (2 Hours)
  • Medication Reconciliation and Environmental Safety (2 Hours)

Services 

• Client engagement,  empowerment, motivational enhancement and stages of change
  • Communication Skills and Developing Rapport (1 Hours)
  • Facilitating Client Centered Learning (2 hours)
  • 5 Elements of Motivational Interventions & 5 Principles of Motivational Interviewing (2 Hours)
  • Creating Individualized, Effective Goals and Service Plans (3 Hours)
  • Counseling Foundations: Success, Resilience, Compliance and Solutions (11 Hours)
• Advocacy and client self-care management (2 Hours) (e.g., self advocacy, self-directed care, informed decision making, shared decision making, health education)
• Crisis assessment and intervention
• Communication skills, conflict resolution and support system enhancement  
  • Communicating with the Cognitively Impaired (2 Hours)
  • Assisting Families through Transitions (5 Hours)
• Health coaching and literacy and wellness and illness prevention programs, concepts, and strategies
  • Wellness and illness prevention programs, concepts, and strategies (2 Hours)
  • Health Coaching (2 Hours)
  • Improving Health Literacy (6 Hours)
  • Preventing Vulnerabilities: Pain, Sleep, Nutrition (6 Hours)
• Psychosocial Aspects and Management
  • Psychosocial aspects and management of clients with acute and chronic illnesses and disabilities
  • Psychosocial Aspects of Disability (17 Hours)
  • Chronic conditions 2
• Management of care transitions:
  • Referral and Service Coordination Overview (6 Hours)
  • Referral and Service Coordination within a Recovery Oriented System of Care(20 Hours)
  • The Referral Process—Identification, Initiation, Follow-Up (8 Hours)

• Life care planning
• Management of care transitions:
  • Referral and Service Coordination Overview (6 Hours)
  • Referral and Service Coordination within a Recovery Oriented System of Care(20 Hours)
  • The Referral Process—Identification, Initiation, Follow-Up (8 Hours)

Special Topics 

• Addiction
  • Addictions Overview (4 Hours) 
  • Addictions and Mood Disorders: Understanding the Interplay (2 Hours)
• Alzheimer's and Dementias
  • Alzheimer's and Dementias (8 Hours
  • Dementia Case Management
• Autoimmune and Chronic Pain
  • Autoimmune Issues and Mental Health: Understanding the Interactions (4 Hours)
  • Case Management for Chronic Pain (2 Hours)
  • Cancer
    • Cancer and Mental Health (2 Hour)
  • Diabetes
    • Diabetes, Depression, Autoimmune, and Special Issues (2 Hours)
  • Kidney
    • Psychosocial Aspects of Kidney Disease (4 Hours)
  • Stroke
    • Post Stroke Psychosocial Issues (2 Hours)

This course contains domestic violence awareness, ethics, and supervision continuing education hours.  Those categories are required by nearly every state.  It does NOT contain medical error prevention, state-specific laws and rules or multicultural issues.  AllCEUs does have courses in those areas, which you can purchase individually if you need them.

Objectives

• 2 Hours Domestic Violence Awareness
• 3 hours  Ethics including a review of ACA Ethics
• 5 Hours Clinical Supervision
• 2 Hours Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Clients
• 2 Hours Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills
• 2 Hours Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills
• 2 Hours Mental Health and Addiction Relapse Prevention
• 2 Hours Understanding Chemical and Behavioral Addictions

• Review the HIPAA and HITECH and how they directly relate to mental health clinicians regarding confidentiality and accessibility of protected health information.

• Identify ethical issues in documentation (and lack thereof).
• Examine the types of information that should be documented.
• Identify the impact HIPAA has on record keeping ethics and procedures.
• Identify the types of information insurers often require in charts and the ethical implications .
• Explore ethical issues that arise with documentation when treating families, conducting groups, working in agencies, working with involuntary clients.

Objectives:

• Examine ethical and legal standards in counseling
• Review basic ethical principles
  
• Familiarize student with new CRCC code of ethics
  
• Reviews Rehabilitation Counseling Codes of Ethics as they are being developed in conjunction with the ACA

Note: This is not preapproved through CRCC, but conforms to CRCC standards, 30,000+ words and 20 questions on the exam.

Objectives:

• Identify differences between etherapy and face-to-face counseling
• Discuss the pros and cons of etherapy
• Discuss issues with client confidentiality
• Explore issues related to boundaries, dual relationships and social networking
• Review various ethical codes as they relate to etherapy
• Dealing with disinhibition
• Common ethical violations in etherapy

Contact Hours: 3

Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC

Objectives:

• Understand why it is an ethical imperative to be culturally responsive
• Identify ethical issues that arise for counselors working in a multicultural setting
• Explore how our environment, forms, procedures and self/person can impact the relationship

•     Explore ethical and legal standards in counseling
•     Discuss different codes of ethics (APA, ACA, AAMFT)
•     Discuss the principles supporting and informing ethical codes (i.e. beneficence)
•     Identify steps in ethical decision making
•     Define, identify and discuss how to deal effectively with transference and countertransference issues
•     Identify stressors in the profession and burnout prevention techniques
•     Clarify personal values and their effect in a counselor's work
•     Discuss the role of spiritual and religious values in counseling
•     Identify cultural values and assumptions in therapy
•     Identify the characteristics of a multiculturally competent counselor
•     Explain the purpose of informed consent
•     Identify Counselor's Responsibilities in Record Keeping
•     Identify ways to reduce malpractice liability
•     Define and explain the conditions for maintaining confidentiality, privilege and privacy.
•     Explain HIPAA regulations and what they mean to counselors

Objectives

• Discuss ethical and legal standards in counseling
• Demonstrate familiarity with what often leads to boundary breaches.
  
• Explore the most frequently made allegations of ethics violations. 
  
• Discuss examples of multiple relationships. 
  
• Examine important areas to consider regarding boundaries.
• Demonstrate familiarity with components of informed consent including HIPAA

Objectives:

• Explore practice management issues for mental health professionals
• Define ethics in terms of attending to consumer's biopsychosocial needs
• Discuss how to individualize treatment
• Identify four types of motivation
• List the components of SNAP to be strengths, needs, attitudes and preferences
• Identify boundary issues in small communities and recovery communities

Objectives:

• Explore ethical and legal standards in counseling
• Explain the difference between ethical and legal guidelines
  
• Identify causes of ethical stress
  
• Discuss the Un-Ethics mantra
  
• Identify the areas in which professionals must be competent
  

Contact Hours: 3

Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP,

Objectives:

• Explore practice management issues for mental health professionals
• Explain the reason for ethical codes
• Present multiple methods for analyzing ethical problems
• Identifying lying or B.S.
• Define different types of ethics
• Learn about compassion stress and compassion fatigue

• Review the philosophical ethical principles
• Explore how the following are ethical imperatives and how to fit them in
  • Counseling Skills Development
  • Ongoing Supervision
  • Self-Care

Objectives:

• Identify differences between etherapy and face-to-face counseling
• Discuss the pros and cons of etherapy
• Discuss issues with client confidentiality
• Explore issues related to boundaries, dual relationships and social networking
• Review various ethical codes as they relate to etherapy
• Dealing with disinhibition
• Common ethical violations in etherapy

updated 2/22

• Define ethical awareness
• Explore multiple case studies involving ethical issues
• Explore the connection between ethical awareness and behavior and critical thinking
• Examine 22 of the most common cognitive fallacies or mistakes that lead to breaches of ethics.
• Discuss common justifications for unethical behavior, and what can be done to prevent ethical missteps
• Define and examine the dynamics of trust, caring and power in terms of our greatest ethical dilemma

• Explore the concepts of beneficence and non-malfeasance in counseling, common counseling ethical violations and prevention strategies.

• Identify signs and causes of burnout.
• Explore Physical, Interpersonal, Environmental, Cognitive, Emotional, Spiritual (PIECES) techniques for burnout prevention.

• Define cultural competence, presents a rationale for pursuing it, and describes the process of becoming culturally competent and responsive to client needs.
• Address the development of cultural awareness.
• Describe core competencies for counselors and other clinical staff.
• Provide guidelines for culturally responsive clinical services.
• Provide organizational strategies to promote the development and implementation of culturally responsive practices.
• Provide a general introduction to each major racial and ethnic group, providing specific cultural knowledge related to substance use and treatment.
• Explore the concept of “drug culture” and its role in substance use disorder treatment.
• Review the Florida statute on patient brokering
• Review the Florida Statute on Patient Rights

• Explore ethical and legal standards in counseling
• Discuss different codes of ethics (APA, ACA, AAMFT)
• Discuss the principles supporting and informing ethical codes (i.e. beneficence)
• Identify steps in ethical decision making
• Define, identify and discuss how to deal effectively with transference and countertransference issues
• Identify stressors in the profession and burnout prevention techniques
• Clarify personal values and their effect in a counselor's work
• Discuss the role of spiritual and religious values in counseling
• Identify cultural values and assumptions in therapy
• Identify the characteristics of a multiculturally competent counselor
• Explain the purpose of informed consent
• Identify Counselor's Responsibilities in Record Keeping
• Identify ways to reduce malpractice liability
• Define and explain the conditions for maintaining confidentiality, privilege and privacy.
• Explain HIPAA regulations and what they mean to counselors

• What is an Intervention? (2 Hours)
• Addiction Specific Training (6 Hours)
• Detoxification and Medical Emergencies (15 Hours): Understanding the signs that your client may need emergency medical assistance and understanding detox procedures to prepare clients for what they might experience in treatment.
• Screening for Addiction and Mental Health Issues (3 Hours): Provides skills necessary to screen for mental health and addiction issues in order to identify the most effective treatment placement resources.
• Pharmacology (5 Hours): Helps the interventionist understand the impact of substances on the physical and emotional health of the patient and learn to identify signs of intoxification and withdrawal.
• Eating Disorders (3 Hours): Eating disorders require specilized treatment and often co-occur with addictions and mental health issues, so they must be addressed as part of the recovery process.
• Gambling, Gaming and Sex Addiction (6 Hours): Like other process addictions, sex and pornography addiction often co-occurs with other issues and presents a significant risk of relapse if left untreated.
• Pre-Intervention Skills (5 Hours): Helps the interventionist develop the necessary skills for begining the interveniton process and assisting families through life transitions.
• Intervention Models and Skills (5 Hours) : Presents a variety of different approaches to interventions to help the interventionist formulate a vision for how they will condut their interventions.
• Family Systems (12 Hours): Identifies the family dynamics of addiction, codependency, guilt and other issues which need to be addressed to facilitate family recovery.
• Motivational Interviewing (12 Hours): Provides the skills to increase and maintain the family's motivation for conducting the intervention, for encouraging the person to enter treatment and for encouraging everyone to adhere to the plan and stay motivated to continue to work their own recovery plans.
• Crisis Intervention (6 Hours):  Provides information about signs of crisis and steps to take to get someone in crisis to a safe place.
• Treatment Placement and Aftercare (10 Hours): Teaches you about the different types of treatment and services that may be needed to facilitate the recovery process.
• Case Management (10 Hours): Helps you understand how to pull everything together into a cohesive plan for recovery.
• Ethics (6 Hours): Reviews ethical decision making and the importance of ethical behavior in interventions.
• Documentation (2 Hours): Helps you see some of the types of documentation you will need to create fo ryour intervention business.
• The Business of Interventions is a bonus section that walks you through the Small Business Administrations guide for starting a small business.

• Explore multicultural and pluralistic trends; social or cultural issues affecting individuals, couples and families
• Examine the influence of culture and society on mental health
• Discuss issues in mental health care for African Americans, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Hispanic Americans
• Explore Ethics Codes in Multicultural Counseling
• Examine Cultural Values and Assumptions in Therapy
• Discuss matching Client and Counselor
• Understanding the competencies needed to work with special populations.

• Discuss professional history and trends
• Explore professional roles and functions
• Examine ethical and legal standards in counseling
• Explore federal and state laws and regulations affecting counselors

• 10 Hours in Mentoring
• 10 Hours in Advocacy
• 16 Hours in Ethics
• 10 Hours in Recovery Support
• 54 Hours in Electives
• Crisis Intervention and Building Resilience
• Recovery Oriented System of Care
• Life and Recovery Skills

NOTE: Here is a link to the GA Code of Ethics, as the classes link to the FL Code of Ethics in some places.   They are actually identical because they use a national standard..and are copies of that:

https://www.thegarrnetwork.org/narr-standards

• NARR Standards for Recovery Residences/http://farronline.org/standards-ethics/standards/
• 397.487 Voluntary certification of recovery residences.
• Writing Policies and Procedures
• Risk Management

• Crisis Prevention and Intervention
• Verbal De-Escalation
• Disaster Planning

• Behavioral -health screening tools
• Medication management
• Signs and symptoms of intoxication & withdrawal

• Understanding Addiction and Co-Occurring Disorders
• Relapse Prevention
• Motivational Enhancement
• Wellness Strategies
• Practical Living Skills (interpersonal Effectiveness)

• FARR Code of Ethics http://farronline.org/narr-code-of-ethics/
• Client Rights
• Cultural competence
• Documentation
• Emotional/social intelligence (Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance)

• NARR Standards for Recovery Residences/http://farronline.org/standards-ethics/standards/
• 397.487 Voluntary certification of recovery residences.
• Writing Policies and Procedures
• Risk Management

40 hours of related training. 
Health Education (3 hours)
  - Tobacco dependence Knowledge and Education
Assessment and Referral (3 hours)
  -Assessment Interview
Treatment Planning and Counseling (16 hours)
  -Counseling Skills            
  Treatment Planning
  -Pharmacotherapy
  -Relapse Prevention
Professional Responsibility (6 hours)
  -Diversity and Special Health Issues
  - documentation and Evaluation
  -Professional Resources
  -Law and Ethics
  -Professional development
Remaining 12 hours may be spread among the domains as appropriate for the specific area of practice for
the applicant