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- Objectives
- Describe why should a counselor be concerned with promoting wellness
- Describe how good nutrition contributes to protecting against depression, anxiety
- Discuss how obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension can contribute to depression and anxiety
- Describe cholesterol
- List the issues that are related to obese people developing depression
- Explain how depression can lead people to eat more and be more sedentary leading to obesity which worsens the depression
- Explain why “comfort foods” high in sugar can cause a “crash” in blood sugar leading to a worsening of depression
- Identify the percentage of high school girls who have used vomiting or laxatives for weight control in the last three months
- Identify the percentage of high school girls reporting subclinical symptoms of eating disorders
- Describe ways obese patients are viewed
- Discuss the impact of obesity on patients receiving adequate medical treatment
- Identify how early the negative attitudes towards obese people emerge
- Explain why unhealthy people often are not motivated to make healthy changes
- Describe ways clinicians can help patients focus on environmental factors that influence eating and activity
$18.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Evaluate the strengths, basic objectives, and the delivery of Psychological First Aid, including when and for whom the interventions would be appropriate.
- Review the methods used to contact and engage disaster survivors, enhance immediate and ongoing safety, to provide physical and emotional comfort, and to offer practical help to survivors.
- Examine ways to help establish brief or ongoing contacts with primary support persons or other sources of support, including family members, friends, and community helping resources, and determine methods to link survivors with available collaborative services needed at the time or in the future.
- Identify common psychological reactions to traumatic experiences and losses, particularly the differences in how children, adolescents, adults, and older adults react and cope
$21.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- To identify and define the purpose of 9 types of psychotropic drug classes.
- To name common side effects and risks of these classes of drugs.
- To list the five strategies for aiding tobacco users willing to quit (Five A’s) and unwilling to quit (5 Rs).
- To identify and describe life-threatening syndromes that can develop as a result of taking psychopharmacological medication.
- To familiarize the counselor with ways to interact with their client’s medical doctor.
- To educate the counselor in ways to encourage medication compliance in client sessions.
$18.00 for 90 days Objective
- Explore historic and well-established contemporary counseling theories, principles and techniques of counseling and their application in professional counseling settings
- Discuss the causes of PTSD
- Examine PTSD through a strengths-based lens
- Identify tools to help patients deal with PTSD symptoms
- Define Cognitive Processing Therapy
- Explore the 12 Session Protocol for CPT
- Examine complex trauma from a developmental and strengths-based lens
- Identify interventions to help patients acquire the skills to mitigate the impact of complex trauma
$18.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Define recovery and resilience (R&R)
- Identify factors that contribute to recovery and resilience
- Identify the interaction of co-occurring disorders in the process of recovery and resilience
$6.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Explore information on the use of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
- Identify Key Features in the Formulation and Implementation of a Treatment Plan
- Understand How to Establish a Therapeutic Alliance
- Discuss Treatment Settings and Housing Options
- Identify management concerns in each of the three stages of presentation
- Identify Special Issues in Caring for Patients With Treatment-Resistant Illness
- Discuss Clinical Features Influencing the Treatment Plan
- Identify Pharmacological Treatments
- List Other Somatic Therapies and Specific Psychosocial Interventions
$45.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Define crisis
- Explore general principles of crisis management
- Identify methods for effectively screening for crisis
- In therapy sessions
- In the community
- Identify the steps in crisis management
- Identify risk factors for suicide
$12.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Define the person-centered approach
- Identify the requirements for an assessment
- Describe the procedure and reason for identifying the presenting problem
- List the component of SNAP
- Define what strengths are and how to elicit them.
- Identify needs as being the sum of the parts of Maslow’s hierarchy
- Differentiate between the three dimensions of learning, and describe how to individualize treatment
- Discuss what is meant by special considerations
$12.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Review the concept of self-esteem
- Discuss the importance of self esteem
- Identify some of the causes of poor self-esteem
- Review the activities in "The Self-Esteem Companion” and discuss how this book can be integrated into group therapy settings
$6.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Introduction to Bronfenbrenner’s Socioecological Model
- Risk factors for addiction and mental health issues
- Ways to mitigate risk
- Protective factors for addiction and mental health issues
- Ways to enhance protection
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 176 Sociological Approach to Risk and Resilience
$6.00 for 90 days