Addiction Theory
Unlimited Addiction Counseling Training courses focusing on the addiction knowledge training domain
Objectives
- Review the fundamentals of what an addiction is and what functions it serves
- Explore behavioral addictions in contrast to chemical addictions
- Learn about the addicted family characteristics and characters
- Learn about specific behavioral addictions: Food, internet& gaming and sex
- Identify ways of dealing with the challenges of treating addictions from which most people cannot abstain.
Objectives:
- Define triggers and cravings
- Compare and contrast triggers and cravings with obsessions and compulsions
- Identify ways to help clients identify and cope with their triggers
- Explore the various types of triggers
- Explore what craving means and different ways to deal with it