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Objectives
- Provide the client and significant others with clarification and further information as needed regarding the treatment program
- Examine ethical and legal standards in counseling
- Discuss what needs to be covered during orientation
- Explore effective communication styles
- List factors affecting the client's comprehension of assessment findings
- Discuss client rights
Objectives:
- Define addictions
- Identify different types of addictions
- Define different types of addictive thinking
- Identify reasons for engaging in addictive behavior
Objectives
- Describe essential attitudes for conducting effective assessments
- Select and use a comprehensive assessment process that is sensitive to age, gender, racial and ethnic cultural issues, and disabilities
- Identify considerations to assess validity/reliability and usefulness of various objective testing instruments
- Conducting comprehensive assessment interviews and collecting information from collateral sources.
- Differentiate between the function of screening and assessment
- Identify multiple sources of information for the assessment
- Identify types of questions for each area of the mental status exam
- Identify differences in assessment across special populations (women, homeless, criminal justice)
Objectives:
- Review opiates as a depressant and analgesic
- Explore various types of opiates, methods of administration
- Review the short and long term effects of opiates
- Identify symptoms of opiate withdrawal and intoxication
- Discuss factors that make it so easy to overdose on opiates
- Review the use of Naloxone
- Review the different types of benzodiazepines and their half life
- Identify symptoms of benzodiazepine intoxication and withdrawal (including protracted withdrawal)
- Review the short and long term effects of benzodiazapine use
Objective
- Define sex and pornography addiction
- Compare and contrast sex addiction with drug addiciton
- Identify tools that can assist sex addicts
- Explore current protocols for early recovery of the sex addict
- Identify issues that may impact the relationship and ways to engage the significant other in the recovery process
Objectives:
- Define the
PACER model
- Explore how
PACER dimensions interact
- Examine the transdiagnostic assessment process
Objectives:
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Learn about the functions of oxytocin
- Identify how oxytocin may impact mood, cognition, behavior (including addiction) and social functioning
- Explore current research involving the use of intranasal oxytocin for treatment
Objectives
- Explain why pain management matters.
- Name various treatment team members.
- List drug and non-drug treatment options.
- Learn the three classes of analgesics.
- Name goals of pain therapy.
- Develop skills for communicating with a medical practitioner about pain.
- Describe pain using numerical, verbal and visual scales.
- Discuss concerns for use of opioid medication for pain treatment.
- Discuss and describe the "Opioid Contract".
- List the five classes of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
- Identify prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the U.S.
- Compare and contrast Injection and Infusion therapies.
- Identify benefits and drawbacks of various treatments.
- Learn four stress management techniques.
- Classify methods of pain management that can be completed by the client on their own.
- Learn about promising new treatment options.
Objectives
- Identify the eight steps of psychiatric management for persons with panic disorder
- Explain how to select the most appropriate treatment settings
- Summarize the psychopharmacological recommendations for treating panic disorder
- Summarize the length of treatment and the tapering process
- Identify the types of psychoeducation we should be provided to patients with panic disorder
- Identify five ways to increase treatment compliance
- Summarize psychosocial interventions for panic disorder
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different treatment modalities
Objectives:
- Identify the symptoms of panic
- Examine the function of panic
- Explore ways panic can become dysfunctional
- Identify the impact of panic on the person and recovery
- Identify interventions that are commonly used to address panic and prevent relapse
- Help for family members or significant others in dealing with a person with this issue