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- 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 - Objectives
- Describe the effects alcohol and drug usage can have on the HIV and AIDS disease process in patients.
- Describe the roles alcohol and drug usage have in the contracting of HIV.
- List the members involved in the collaborative care of patients with HIV and AIDS.
- Describe some of the common myths about HIV and AIDS.
- Describe the risk factors associated with contracting HIV.
- Identify preventative measures to avoid contracting HIV.
- List the items included on an HIV/AIDS Risk Assessment Checklist.
- Describe HIV infection preventative measures.
- Identify the goals of risk-reduction counseling.
- Describe the process of testing for HIV infection.
- Describe the factors involved in HIV pre- and post-test counseling.
- Identify the requirements for reporting HIV and AIDS test results.
- Generally describe how HIV is medically monitored.
- Describe how clinicians can increase client’s adherence to HIV medication regimens and compliance with prescribed care plans.
- Describe how the client’s gender, culture and sexuality orientation influence their compliance with treatment.
- List events which may initiate client relapse.
- Describe relapse prevention techniques.
- Describe the counselor’s role in supporting the client with HIV or AIDS cope with issues of death, dying, grief and bereavement.
- Identify steps involved in case management for the client with HIV or AIDS.
- Identify the legal regulations and processes in place to protect and assist clients HIV or AIDS.
$84.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Learn why these habits contribute to recovery from addiction and mood issues and techniques to help clients implement them
- Awareness and Authenticity
- Acceptance
- Gratitude
- Compassion
- Breathing
- Purposeful action and Long-Term Goals
- Back-Talk
- Thought Conditioning
- Be Sense-sational
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 175 Models and Theories of Co-Occurring Disorders
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Explain how trauma informed practices and trauma specific services can enhance client retention, treatment outcomes and organizational standing
- Understand the difference between trauma-informed and trauma-specific services
- Demonstrate knowledge of how trauma affects diverse people throughout their lifespans and with different mental health problems, cognitive and physical disabilities, and substance use issues
- Demonstrate knowledge of the impact of trauma on diverse cultures with regard to the meanings various cultures attach to trauma and the attitudes they have regarding behavioral health treatment
- Identify the 16 components of trauma informed care
- Describe the impact of trauma on the individual, family and community
- Review best practices for trauma screening and assessment
- Develop an understanding of behavior as communication which may have been learned or developed as a way of coping with trauma and will learn skills and tools to enhance rapport, motivation and client activation.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the variety of ways clients express stress reactions
- Describe how these reactions “make sense” from a survival/reinforcement perspective
- Identify ways to help clients develop alternate responses while maintaining personal power and a sense of safety
- Give examples of when clients trauma histories may have triggered the use of : Avoidance, aggression, passivity
- Learn approaches to enhance client empowerment and choice.
- Explore approaches to trauma-informed crisis intervention
- Identify biopsychosocial interventions that can assist in the recovery from trauma.
- Learn ways to enhance mindfulness
- Explore techniques for addressing cognitive distortions
$72.00 for 120 daysObjectives
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Identify the organizational costs of employee turnover
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Define trauma
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Explore the effects of trauma and HPA-Axis dysregulation
- Identify problematic employee behaviors and explore how they might relate to prior trauma
- Discuss sources of trauma (or trauma re-enactment) in the workplace
- Explain what a trauma organized system is.
- Explain how trauma contributes to employee stress, behavioral issues and turnover.
- Identify at least 10 common workplace stressors and bad habits that contribute to turnover
- Explain how trauma informed processes are at work and need to be addressed not only in clients, but also staff (mitigating trauma)
- Give at least three examples of behavior as a form of communication
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Describe characteristics of healthy organizations
- Identify interventions for sources of workplace stress and turnover
- Effectively use the psychological flexibility matrix to chart helpful and unhelpful responses to situations
- Explain behavioral principles underlying behavior and behavior change.
- Demonstrate ability to explore the benefits and drawbacks of all behaviors to better understand how to motivate change.Learn techniques to create a healthy trauma-informed organizational culture that inspires growth and reduces turnover.
- Learn about the SELF Model (Safety, Emotional Management, Loss, Future) and apply it to workplace events and employee behavior
- Use the SELF Model to solve complex problems and develop a sense of purpose instead of abandoning the organization.
- Learn ways to encourage people to grow and adapt to change
- Provide at least 3 examples of activities to help staff create a vision of a healthy workplace and rewarding career that inspires purposeful action
- Identify at least 5 ways to demonstrate a that diversity and participation is valued
- Discuss ways to build a culture of democracy
- Give at least 3 examples of ways to model nonviolence and enhance safety
- Define emotional intelligence
- Discuss the benefits of emotional regulation
- Explain the benefits and process of developing a system of open communication
- Develop a plan for how to create a commitment to growth and change based in social responsibility in their work settings
- Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of healthy organizations and how to use principles of motivation and behavior change to encourage these characteristics.
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Learn the principles of motivational interviewing
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively use motivational interviewing with staff to address factors that impair motivation
- Describe at least 3 interventions that can be used to enhance the development of a staff community
- Explain the principles of positive, strengths-based management and apply those principles to scenarios based on current or past staff issues.
$60.00 for 120 days-
- Objectives
- Define motivational interviewing
- Define rolling with resistance
- Define the FRAMES approach
- Identify effective techniques for increasing motivation
$12.00 for 90 days - Objectives:
- Explore historic and well-established contemporary counseling theories, principles and techniques of counseling and their application in professional counseling settings;
- Define Readiness
- Learn how to use the readiness ruler
- Identify the 4 types of precontemplators
- Identify processes people use to move through the stages of change
- Explore the TransTheoretical Model of Change
- Discuss the 7 steps in the change process
$12.00 for 90 days