Addiction Theory
Unlimited Addiction Counseling Training courses focusing on the addiction knowledge training domain
Objectives
- Define Internet and Gaming Addiction
- Explore how these behaviors can develop into addictions
- Identify risk factors in individuals more predisposed to becoming addicted
- Identify characteristics of video games and online activities that make it addictive
- Review the most commonly accepted goals for treatment of internet and gaming addiction
- Review the most common biopsychosocial interventions to address internet and gaming addiction
$9.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Learn about what the 12-steps and their purpose
- Learn about the Big Book and what Big Book Studies are
- Learn about what the Big Book has to say about treatment, medication
- Hear from John M. of Sober Speak who shares some tools from the trenches to help people prevent relapse and deal with common issues in early recovery.
- Learn what it is like for someone to go to their first meeting so we can help prepare people.
$6.00 for 90 daysThis course is designed to teach clinicians and paraprofessionals
- Understanding Co-Occurring Disorders
- Motivation
- Goal Setting and Behavior Modification
- Mindfulness, Serenity and Purposeful Action
- Physical/Biological Needs
- Creating Safety
- Feelings, Emotions, Reactions
- Cognitive Interventions
- Coping Skills and Defense Mechanisms
- Problem Solving
- Decision making
- Planning for emergencies
- Relationships
- Assertiveness Training and Refusal Skills
- Enhancing social support networks
- Getting in Touch—Lessons Learned from Your Family of Origin
- Co-Dependency
- Self-Esteem: Your Relationship with Yourself
- Boundaries
- Putting it Together
$35.00 for 90 days- Understanding Co-Occurring Disorders
- Objectives
- Identify the most common settings for co-occurring disorders treatment.
- Differentiate between the levels of treatment from intervention to residential level IV.
- Discuss data and information gathering methods.
- Identify specific characteristics of treatment in problem solving courts, jails.
$24.00 for 90 days Objectives:
- Explore the impact of pornography on relationships
- Identify common reactions to finding out about porn
- Explore needs that may fuel negative cycles
- Interventions “Relationship Rescue Breaths”
- Improving intimacy
- Dealing with insecurity, vulnerability and grief
- Helping your partner understand what porn does for you
- Addressing triggers for porn use
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Discuss psychopharmacology and the role and effect of psychotropic medications in mental health.
- Identify the most common types of medication assisted therapies including methadone, suboxone and vivitrol.
- Discuss the utility and appropriateness of medication assisted therapy.
$24.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Learn about alcohol related dementia and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 186 Common Co-Occurring Issues Caused By Substance Abuse: Dementia and FASD
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives:
- Identify five common approaches to treatment
- Identify the main components of each approach
- Compare and contrast each approach for
- Practical utilization
- Research Support/Efficacy
- Explores social or cultural issues affecting individuals
$12.00 for 90 days Objective
- Identify criteria and methods for evaluating models and theories
- Discuss appropriate applications of models.
- How to access addiction related literature from multiple disciplines
- Review the 5 models of addiction development
- Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each
- Compare these to accepted models of mental illness and physical disease
- Explore the biopsychosocial model to develop an understanding of the comprehensive, interactive nature of addiction and mental health on environment, relationships and physical health
- Create initial treatment goals for a residential treatment program
$12.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Define the principles of effective treatment
- Explore current trends and practices
- Identify common approaches to treatment
- Identify the main components of each approach
- Compare and contrast each approach
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 187 Models of Treatment: Old and New Approaches
$6.00 for 90 days - Define the principles of effective treatment