Identify case management needs of persons with substance abuse and/or mental health disorders (co-occurring).
Discuss how counseling differs from case management
Identify the five core functions of treatment professionals using case management
Identify the skills necessary to provide effective case management services
Identify common causes for the breakdown of service coordination
Define the various models of case management and describe how they are used with persons with mental healtha nd substance use disorders disorders
Identify the eight principles of case management
Effectively identify service gaps and establish and maintain relations with agencies and governmental entities who can address these unmet needs
Identify information to be shared with referral sources and necessary documentation and/or releases to provide that information
Establish realistic treatment and recovery expectations with the client
Develop relationships with agencies in order to enhance case finding activities
Differentiate between the services required during pretreatment, treatment and aftercare
Identify ways to effectively evaluate quality of care in case management programs
Effectively identify clients who have "special needs"
Identify the ways that each of the special needs impact the delivery of case management services
Identify referral resources in their communities
For mental health and addiction counselors (LPC, LMHC, LPCC, LADC, CADC, and counselors in training), social workers (LCSW, LMSW, LSW, RSW), pastoral staff, case managers (CCM) and marriage and family therapists (LMFT)
Learn how to teach patients to self monitor their eating behaviors
Explore the crucial issue for many patients with eating disorders of regular eating and weighing
Learn about the function and effects of Binge Eating, Purging and Driven Exercise
Identify how moods impact disordered eating
Explore the role of dietary restriction and rules in maintaining disordered eating, along with guidelines for normal eating.
Explore how people with eating disorders place an unusually high value on controlling their eating, weight and/or shape, and how they judge their self-worth accordingly
Review information and strategies to start changing the thoughts associated with disordered eating and weight control habits
Get introduced to a range of strategies for challenging dietary rules and restriction, and food avoidance.
Discuss some of the consequences of over-emphasizing shape and weight.
Explores the role of low self-esteem in disordered eating and weight control habits.
Peruse strategies for improving self-esteem by developing new rules for living and new, more balanced beliefs about yourself.
Define the "eating disorder mindset," a set of distorted beliefs about eating, weight and shape
Develop a plan for maintaining the goals that have been achieved so far and preventing relapse
Learn about normal brain development across the lifespan
Explore the neurobiology of PTSD
Highlight the changes in cognition and brain structure associated with PTSD
Identify crucial components to effective PTSD treatment
Examine the effects of pharmacotherapy on brain function
Learn about the function hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in the stress response systems, and abnormalities in the HPA axis in persons with PTSD
Identify specific neurochemicals implicated in the development of PTSD including chatecholamines, serotonin, amino acids (specifically GABA) and peptides.