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- 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 daysObjectives
- Define stigma and discrimination
- Explore the protections under the ADA
- List several ways our consumers are stigmatized or discriminated against
- Identify ways to fight discrimination
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Explore group counseling methods and skills
- Identify the five models of group therapy currently used in substance abuse treatment and the three other types of groups that can be integrated into the five models
- Differentiate between 12-step self-help groups and interpersonal process groups
- Identify at least 10 advantages of group treatment
- Identify the three modifications that need to be made to group treatment in order to improve its effectiveness in substance abuse settings
- Discuss how the client's stage of readiness for change affects the types of groups he or she will be in
- Describe the characteristics of each of the five group models used in substance abuse treatment
- Effectively match clients with appropriate groups
- Accurately assess client readiness for group primary placement considerations
- Identify as six dimensions assess for the ASAM patient placement criteria
- Identify the six levels of treatment identified by the ASAM patient placement criteria that
- Identify the three other criteria we should be considered when determining the patient's appropriateness for group therapy
- Identify the difference between culture, cultural knowledge, cultural awareness, and cultural competence
- Understand the components of the diversity wheel
- Identify strategies for handling issues that arise when group norms and cultural values conflict
- Identify the six guidelines for clinicians on the evaluating bias and prejudice
- Identify for techniques that can be helpful in providing substance abuse treatment to a culturally diverse groups
- Identify six guidelines for preparing the group for a new member from a racial or ethnic minority
- Discuss the benefits of fixed and revolving membership groups
- Identify the most effective ways to prepare client for participation in groups is that
- Be familiar with the recommended issues to discuss in pre-group interviews
- Discuss ways for increasing retention in groups
- Identify specific group tasks appropriate for each phase of the group
- Discuss how to convert conflict and resistance in the positive energy that powers the group's
- Explain how to deal with disruptive group members
- Explain how to cool down runaway affect or turn a crisis into an opportunity
- Identify six of the most common errors the group leaders make
- Describe four types of training that are recommended for group therapists
$60.00 for 90 days