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Objectives
Identify signs and causes of burnout.
Explore Physical, Interpersonal, Environmental, Cognitive, Emotional, Spiritual (PIECES) techniques for burnout prevention.
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Define cultural competence, presents a rationale for pursuing it, and describes the process of becoming culturally competent and responsive to client needs.
Address the development of cultural awareness.
Describe core competencies for counselors and other clinical staff.
Provide guidelines for culturally responsive clinical services.
Provide organizational strategies to promote the development and implementation of culturally responsive practices.
Provide a general introduction to each major racial and ethnic group, providing specific cultural knowledge related to substance use and treatment.
Explore the concept of “drug culture” and its role in substance use disorder treatment.
Review the Florida statute on patient brokering
Review the Florida Statute on Patient Rights
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Explore ethical and legal standards in counseling
Discuss different codes of ethics (APA, ACA, AAMFT)
Discuss the principles supporting and informing ethical codes (i.e. beneficence)
Identify steps in ethical decision making
Define, identify and discuss how to deal effectively with transference and countertransference issues
Identify stressors in the profession and burnout prevention techniques
Clarify personal values and their effect in a counselor's work
Discuss the role of spiritual and religious values in counseling
Identify cultural values and assumptions in therapy
Identify the characteristics of a multiculturally competent counselor
Explain the purpose of informed consent
Identify Counselor's Responsibilities in Record Keeping
Identify ways to reduce malpractice liability
Define and explain the conditions for maintaining confidentiality, privilege and privacy.
Explain HIPAA regulations and what they mean to counselors
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Review current research on evidence based and promising practices for Co-Occurring Disorders
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Explore the nature and needs of individuals at all developmental levels
Define the client as a person, persons, group, aggregate or community with whom the clinician is engaged in a professional, therapeutic partnership.
Learn how to assist clients in assuming responsibility for their own learning and treatment
Discuss ways to develop collaborative partnership relationships with clients which are critical to the success of client centered learning
Explore ways to improve communication between clients and clinicians and align their conversations accordingly.
Identify information, resources and support for clients that will promote care a way that is evidence informed and respects clients' preferences.
Realize the importance for clients to understand the information in order to facilitate effective learning and treatment compliance
Define the components of the LEARN model.
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Define closed, open and single-session groups
Explore th benefits and challenges for each
Identify the developmental phases for open groups
Discuss the process and necessary skills for managing open-ended groups
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Compare and contrast substance abuse treatment and family therapy
Explain how substance abuse treatment and family therapy can be integrated
Discuss the different definitions of family
Identify how families are distinguished from social support groups
Identify the four characteristics of families central to family therapy
Discuss five core components of the systems theory of marriage and family therapy
Discuss the four predominant family therapy models used in substance abuse treatment
Identifying the five stages of change in the Prochaska model
Identify the three levels of recovery in Kaufman's model
Identify the three phases of family change in substance abuse family therapy
Discuss criteria for determining the appropriateness of family therapy with substance abuse clients
Describe the impact of substance abuse on families
Describe the five characteristic patterns of codependent behavior
Discuss for strategies for addressing substance abuse is that family
Explain the concepts of denial and resistance
Discuss the value of using integrated models for providing substance abuse treatment to families
Discuss the limitations of integrated models
Identify seven general questions we should be answered when choosing and applying a family systems model
Differentiate between the eight integrated models for substance abuse treatment
Identify special populations to consider when using family therapy
Identify some of the most prominent challenges to emerging family therapy and substance abuse treatment
Describe and I components that are necessary in order to provide a comprehensive range of program activities
Define what adequate treatment is characterized by within a culturally competent model of substance abuse treatment and family therapy.
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Define Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Learn about the prevalence of FASDs in
individuals and families
Explore the effects of FASDs
Brainstorm modifications to standard procedures
and interventions to increase effectiveness with clients with FASD
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Review the following, highlighting some of the most common areas for violation including: sexual misconduct, violation of confidentiality, procedures for terminating practice, receiving kickbacks
Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.)
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Identify the CARES approach to creating secure attachment
Explore the needs of children in infancy, early childhood and middle and high school to identify
Challenges
Ways to promote secure attachment in an age-appropriate manner
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