Addiction Theory
Objectives:
- Mental health is a biopsychosocial issue
- A healthy body, positive emotional experiences, effective thinking strategies, positive environments and healthy interpersonal relationships are essential
- A weakness in any of these areas can contribute to extended distress and HPA-Axis dysregulation which can lead to mental health or addiction relapse.
$3.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Review current research on evidence based and promising practices for Co-Occurring Disorders
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Define the Family
- Examine how addiction impacts the family: Emotionally, Socially, Physically, Spiritually
- Explore the different roles in an addicted family
- Identify the function of those roles in maintaining homoeostasis
$9.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Post Traumatic Stress and the development of gambling issues
- Issues related to the co-occurrence of food addiction and gambling diorder
- Explore financial interventions with problem gamblers
- Learn about triggers for problem gambling and related issues in the elderly
- Review the relationship between gambling and domestic violence
- Review the literature related to patients with alexthymia who also have gambling disorder.
- Identify issues and interventions related to treatment of persons with bipolar disorder and gambling problems
- Explore the public stigma of gambling issues
- Identify unique concerns, issues and recommendations for people with gambling issues who use internet gambling modalities.
$72.00 for 90 days
Objectives
- Examine Personalized Feedback Interventions for Gambling Disorders:
- Identify treatment for Women Gamblers Using Web, Teleconference and Workbook
- Explore Using Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Gambling Disorder
- Review Psychological Treatments for Gambling Disorder
- Review the Guideline for Screening, Assessment and Treatment of Problem Gambling, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Practice Guidelines for Treating Gambling-Related Problems
$48.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Learn about Gambling Addiction
- Differentiate between problem and non-problem gambling
- Review an introduction to the treatment of gambling disorder
- Explore Gambling in a societal context
- Identify game characteristics and their impact
- Compare and contrast substance addiction to gambling issues
- Explore concurrent disorders often present with gambling issues
- Identify special issues in understanding gambling in older adults, adolescents and women
- Review how the stages of change model can be applied to selecting interventions and goals for persons with gambling issues
- Explore criteria for exploring reduction vs. abstinence goals
- Identify common triggers for gambling
- Learn about screening and assessment instruments used in the identification of problem gambling
- Learn about issues often present in the family of a person with a gambling problem, and potential interventions
- Identify personality characteristics which are more predictive of problem gambling
$60.00 for 90 days
Objectives
- Examine Personalized Feedback Interventions for Gambling Disorders:
- Identify treatment for Women Gamblers Using Web, Teleconference and Workbook
- Explore Using Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Gambling Disorder
- Review Psychological Treatments for Gambling Disorder
- Review the Guideline for Screening, Assessment and Treatment of Problem Gambling, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Practice Guidelines for Treating Gambling-Related Problems
$48.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Explore guilt in terms of anger at self
- Learn how the word "should" relates to guilt, anxiety and depression
- Learn about group and individual activities to identify guilt issues (both nurtured and ongoing)
- Explore how to apply the psychological flexibility matrix and challenging questions to guilt.
Based on Counselor Toolbox Podcasts 320-323
$18.00 for 90 days- Objectives:
- Define vulnerabilities
- Identify some of the most common vulnerabilities
- Explore their effects ways to prevent them
$3.00 for 90 days - Objectives • Concepts of social, political, economic, and cultural systems and their impact on drug taking activity. • The history of licit and illicit drug use. • Research reports and other literature identifying risk and resiliency factors for substance use. • Statistical information regarding the incidence and prevalence of substance use disorders in the general population and major demographic groups.$12.00 for 90 days