Multimedia, online courses allow you to move through the training process at your convenience. Email with your instructor 8am-8pm 7 days a week. NAADAC and IC & RC approved continuing education provider
Objectives
Clinical Evaluation: 35 hours
Treatment Planning: 30 hours
Counseling: 50 hours
Case Management and Referral: 10 hours
Client, Family and Community Education: 15 hours
Documentation: 15 hours
Ethical and Professional Responsibilities: 30 hours
Based on the NARR standards, this training series provides education to become certified as a Recovery Residence Administrator
ObjectivesRecovery Residence Operations and Administration: 20 hours
NARR Standards for Recovery Residences/http://farronline.org/standards-ethics/standards/
397.487 Voluntary certification of recovery residences.
Writing Policies and Procedures
Risk Management
Maintaining the Physical Residence: 20 hours
Crisis Prevention and Intervention
Verbal De-Escalation
Disaster Planning
Resident Screening and Admissions: 10 hours
Behavioral -health screening tools
Medication management
Signs and symptoms of intoxication & withdrawal
Residence Recovery Support: 30 hours
Understanding Addiction and Co-Occurring Disorders
Relapse Prevention
Motivational Enhancement
Wellness Strategies
Practical Living Skills (interpersonal Effectiveness)
Legal, Professional and Ethical Responsibilities: 20 hours
FARR Code of Ethics http://farronline.org/narr-code-of-ethics/
Client Rights
Cultural competence
Documentation
Emotional/social intelligence (Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance)
Facilitates collaborative treatment and recovery planning with an emphasis on personal choice and a focus on clients' goals and knowledge of what has previously worked for them
Respects clients' ways of managing stress reactions while supporting and facilitating taking risks to acquire different coping skills that are consistent with clients' values and preferred identity and way of being in the world
Demonstrates knowledge and skill in general trauma-informed counseling strategies, including, but not limited to, grounding techniques that manage dissociative experiences, cognitive- behavioral tools that focus on both anxiety reduction and distress tolerance, and stress management and relaxation tools that reduce hyperarousal
This masterclass provides 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) with the information they need to provide more sensitive, strengths-based treatment to persons who may be dealing with trauma.
Objectives
Trauma 101–Provides an overview of trauma, and an understanding of trauma informed principles and practices
Trauma-Informed Care: Increases awareness of the different types of trauma, their impact and individual differences in the experience of traumatic events.
Trauma Informed Care: Impact of Trauma: Overview of the effects of trauma on the brain and physical health; social relationships; mental health; and the community/society at large.
Trauma Informed Care: Screening and Assessment
Trauma Informed Care: Trauma Specific Services reviews many of the current best and promising practices for survivors of trauma, ranging from child abuse to natural disasters.
Trauma and Resiliency: Highlights the concepts and components of individual, family and community resiliency.
Neurological Impact of Trauma: Provides an overview of the human brain and its response to stress and trauma.
Pharmacotherapy for Trauma: Reviews current practice guidelines for the use of SSRIs, Benzodiazepines, Rapid-Acting Antidepressants, Alpha-1 Antagonists and Mood Stabilizers
Identify the differences between anticipated and sudden loss and at least five factors that affect individual reactions to loss.
Explore how people perceive and make sense of trauma and unexpected change and what information and education is most helpful immediately after death.
Learn effective presence and support measures, self-care techniques, including self-awareness, externalization and actions.
Review associated complications that can arise from sudden and/or violent death and how to effectively mourn the person who died and maintain a healthy connection.
Identify the 6 basic fears and how they relate to crisis
Discuss characteristics of crisis
Learn about models of crisis Intervention
Examine cultural influences in behaviors
Practice the steps in Verbal Crisis De-Escalation
Use brief intervention approaches with persons in crisis to reduce symptoms of crisis and increase motivation for change and other health improvements
Support persons experiencing a crisis to engage meaningfully and safely in a critical incident stress
debriefing process within 24 to 72 hours post-crisis in order to reduce distress and improve mental health
Create crisis plans in collaboration with persons experiencing crisis using strength-based approaches
Explore how to use telecommunication- and technology-based solutions for people at risk for, or experiencing, crisis as a means for receiving:
Identify effective and trauma-informed interventions that can be utilized to mitigate or prevent future crisis in adults
Explore how case management can be used to support people in crisis