Counselor Toolbox Podcast
CEU courses based on the videos at YouTube Doc Snipes
Objectives
- Examine the effects of traumatic stress
- Learn about normal brain development across the lifespan
- Explore the neurobiology of PTSD
- Highlight the changes in cognition and brain structure associated with PTSD
- Identify crucial components to effective PTSD treatment
- Examine the effects of pharmacotherapy on brain function
- Learn about the function hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in the stress response systems, and abnormalities in the HPA axis in persons with PTSD
- Identify specific neurochemicals implicated in the development of PTSD including chatecholamines, serotonin, amino acids (specifically GABA) and peptides.
$42.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Explore the overlap and concurrence of OCD, and generalized anxiety, eating disorders, addiction, PTSD, body dysmorphic disorder
- Identify neurotransmitters, emotional reactions and cognitive issues involved in each and what that may mean for treatment
$3.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Explore the various symptoms of neurotransmitter imbalance in a transdiagnostic framework
- Review the symptoms of excess and deficiency of serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, GABA and Glutamate.
- Identify physiological, cognitive and environmental factors to improve neurotransmitter regulation
- Explore the interaction between the neurotransmitters.
Based on Counselor Toolbox Podcast Episodes 354-358
$30.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
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Types of pain
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Impact of pain on sleep, HPA-Axis and mood
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Treatment options for chronic pain
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CBT Interventions
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 381
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Identify 25 ways parents, school counselors and teachers can help nurture children's mental health
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Define obsessions and compulsions
- Define obsessive compulsive personality disorder
- Define addiction
- Explore common obsessions and compulsions and their function
- Explore why addiction often co-occurs with OCD
- Identify interventions appropriate to assist people with OCD, OCPD and Addiction.
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives- Describe essential attitudes for conducting effective assessments
- Select and use a comprehensive assessment process that is sensitive to age, gender, racial and ethnic cultural issues, and disabilities
- Identify considerations to assess validity/reliability and usefulness of various objective testing instruments
- Conducting comprehensive assessment interviews and collecting information from collateral sources.
- Differentiate between the function of screening and assessment
- Identify multiple sources of information for the assessment
- Identify types of questions for each area of the mental status exam
- Identify differences in assessment across special populations (women, homeless, criminal justice)
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Review opiates as a depressant and analgesic
- Explore various types of opiates, methods of administration
- Review the short and long term effects of opiates
- Identify symptoms of opiate withdrawal and intoxication
- Discuss factors that make it so easy to overdose on opiates
- Review the use of Naloxone
- Review the different types of benzodiazepines and their half life
- Identify symptoms of benzodiazepine intoxication and withdrawal (including protracted withdrawal)
- Review the short and long term effects of benzodiazapine use
$12.00 for 90 daysObjective
- Define sex and pornography addiction
- Compare and contrast sex addiction with drug addiciton
- Identify tools that can assist sex addicts
- Explore current protocols for early recovery of the sex addict
- Identify issues that may impact the relationship and ways to engage the significant other in the recovery process
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Define the PACER model
- Explore how PACER dimensions interact
- Examine the transdiagnostic assessment process
$9.00 for 90 days-