Counseling and Crisis Intervention
Objectives
- Learn group and individual activities that can be used with clients to assist them in addressing depression
- Define Physical, emotional, cognitive, environmental and interpersonal interventions
- Discuss why it is important to add-in happiness experiences
- Discuss solution focused methods for helping clients identify emotional interventions
- Define mindfulness and how it can help clients tap into happiness and gratitude and develop hardiness
Based on 100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes (pdf included) and Counselor Toolbox Episodes 282, 283, 285, 286, 287 & 288 (Video versions of the podcast are in the course)
$24.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Define and explore mindfulness and compassion.
- Discuss essential skills for new mindfulness teachers.
- Explore the Mindfulness program, how to implement it in practice and assist patients in achieving goals for each of the 8 session
$36.00 for 90 days - Objectives This course will cover the following:
- The Goal of ACT
- What is Mindfulness?
- How Does ACT Differ from Other Mindfulness-based Approaches?
- What is Unique to Act?
- Healthy Normality
- Destructive Normality
- Experiential Avoidance
- Therapeutic Interventions
- Confronting the Agenda
- Control is the Problem, Not the Solution
- Six Core Principles of ACT
$24.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Help clients learn the art of Radical Acceptance including
- Accepting Failure
- Accepting Isolation & Rejection
- Accepting Loss of Control
- Accepting Loss & Death
This multimedia course is based in part on Counselor Toolbox Podcasts 38 & 161
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Review Bowlby's theory of attachment
- Explore the types of attachment
- Learn about Hazan and Shaver's Adult Attachment Theory
- Identify the impact of insecure attachment
- Explore ways to help clients change their attachment style and feel more secure in relationships
- Help clients increase awareness of their story including beliefs about and behavioral reactions to situations that trigger their fear of abandonment Learn about fear of abandonment
- Explore the concept of schemas or core beliefs Examine common traps in thinking, reacting and relationships
- Learn skills necessary to
- Accept their past as part of their story
- Acknowledge that their past does not have to continue to negatively impact them in the present
$9.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Explore Why We Procrastinate
- Learn how to address some of the most common causes
- Fear of Failure (and Success)
- Perfectionism
- Being Overwhelmed
- Laziness/Lack of Motivation
- Negative Self-Talk
- Uncertainty about How or Where to Start
- Identify techniques to overcome procrastination
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Do 15 and Apply Parkinsons Law
- Shorten the daily to do list
- Leverage Peak Energy Times
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Be accountable to Someone
- Pay attention to temperament
- Low tolerance for adversity/Attitude of gratitude
- Find (and eliminate) what rewards your procrastination
$6.00 for 90 days- Explore Why We Procrastinate
Objectives:
- Extent of the Problem
- Risk Factors for Suicide
- Protective Factors
- Warning Signs and Precipitating Events
- Neurobiological and Genetic Factors
- The Role of Substance Use in Suicidal Behavior
- Specific Populations
- Co-Occurring Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior
- Accidental Versus Suicidal Overdose
- The Role of Trauma and Abuse
- Assessment of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
- Treatment of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
- The Effects of Suicide on Family and Friends
- The Effects of Suicide on Counselors
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Review the physical, affective, cognitive, environmental and relational impacts of infidelity and betrayal.
$9.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Define types of resistance
- Examine some of the reasons for treatment noncompliance
- Explore how to differentiate learning vs. performance issues
- Review principles of motivational enhancement
- Identify techniques to respond to noncompliance including: Roll with Resistance Tipping the Scales
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 163
$9.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Explore the uses and benefits of Aromatherapy, Meditation, Guided Imagery in the treatment of depression, anxiety, anger, PTSD and addiction.
$24.00 for 90 days- Objectives:
- Explore human roles
- Identify the 3 parts to the learning process.
- Identify the 5 components of learning.
- Identify the benefits and drawback of each learning style and how to modify lessons to accommodate them.
- Discuss how psychoeducational groups and treatment plans can accommodate a variety of learning styles.
- Identify how physical and security needs impact the learning process.
- Define and discuss the acronym SMART.
- Identify pitfalls in goal setting and adult education.
$18.00 for 90 days - Objectives:
- Identify the signs and causes of anger.
- Learn about the anger cycle.
- Learn how to develop an anger control plan.
- Identify how prior interactions have led to problem anger.
- Discuss the A-B-C-D model as it relates to anger management.
$12.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Explore the function of anger
- Identify the costs and benefits of anger
- Identify anger triggers
- Rejection/Isolation
- Failure
- Loss of control
- The unknown
- Explore multiple skills necessary for Anger Management:
- Mindful self-awareness
- Distress tolerance
- Values clarification/Goal setting
- Motivational enhancement skills
- Cognitive behavioral skills
- Cognitive processing skills
- Communication skills
- Compassion focused skills
- Self-esteem building skills
- Wellness skills (Vulnerability identification and prevention)
$30.00 for 90 daysObjectives
Explore techniques to help patients identify and resolve various types of anger including:
- Guilt and Shame
- Resentment
- Jealousy and Envy
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Define Animal Assisted Therapy
- Explore the research around animal assisted therapy
- Learn techniques associated with AAT
- Differentiate between animal assisted therapy and animal assisted activities
- AAT and Sexual Abuse
- AAT and Anger Management
- AAT and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- AAT and Diagnosis
- AAT and Communication
- AAT and Mental Health
- AAT and Counselling
- Integration of Animals into Therapeutic Practice
- Common Counselling Approaches and AAT
- Populations Who May Benefit from AAT in Counselling
- Potential Benefits of AAT in Counselling
- Discuss how to ensure that the AAT program is part of a culturally responsive system of care
- Review some general cautions
$24.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
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Identify the symptoms of anxiety
- Examine the function of anxiety
- Explore ways anxiety can become dysfunctional
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Identify the impact of anxiety on the person and recovery
- Identify interventions that are commonly used to address anxiety and prevent relapse
- Help for family members or significant others in dealing with a person with this issue
$6.00 for 90 days-
Identify the symptoms of anxiety
Objectives:
- Review the symptoms of anxiety in adults and children
- Explore the impacts of anxiety
- Identify strategies for prevention and intervention
$3.00 for 90 days- Review the symptoms of anxiety in adults and children
- Objectives:
- Explore social mores and interaction patterns
- Learn how to define target behaviors
- Define: Discriminitive stimuli, reinforcement, punishment, reinforcement schedules, chaining, behavior strain, extinction burst, extinction
- Practice applying these terms to behaviors
- Identify ways to effectively apply punishment and reinforcement to modify behavior
$6.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Define behavior modification
- Explore how behavior modification can be useful in practice
- Learn basic behavior modification terms: Unconditioned stimulus and response. Conditioned stimulus and response, Discriminitive stimuli, Punishment, Reinforcement, Learned helplessness, Extinction burst, Shaping and Chaining
- Identify ways behavior modification can be used in therapy
- Identify ways in which understanding of stimuli and rewards can be used to increase change
$18.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Apply behavior modification in the home, workplace and for self-improvement
- Reward and Punishment: Examining the positives and negatives
- Triggers and Stimuli: For new and old behaviors
- Chaining and Trouble Shooting: Examining missed triggers and increasing motivation
$6.00 for 90 days - Apply behavior modification in the home, workplace and for self-improvement