Counselor Toolbox Podcast
CEUs based on the videos at YouTube Doc Snipes
- Objectives
- Explore historic and well-established contemporary counseling theories, principles and techniques of counseling and their application in professional counseling settings.
- Differentiate CBT from other therapies.
- Identify populations for whom CBT is appropriate.
- Identify 3 CBT techniques that you will use with your population.
- Learn how to increase determination using CBT
For mental health and addiction counselors (LPC, LMHC, LPCC, LADC, CADC, and counselors in training), social workers (LCSW, LMSW, LSW, RSW), pastoral staff, case managers (CCM) and marriage and family therapists (LMFT).
Free for 90 days Objectives:
- Identify the functional nature of PTSD symptoms
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Describe interventions including cognitive processing and contextual CBT to address PTSD symptoms in a healthier, more helpful way.
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Define cognitive impairment
- Explore symptoms of cognitive impairment in
- Alzheimer’s
- Dementias
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
- Review APA Treatment Guidelines for counselors working with persons with Alzheimer’s
- Identify methods for effective communication
- Learn how to handle difficult behaviors
- Identify specific issues and interventions for a person with a FASD
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 190 Communicating with the Cognitively Impaired
$6.00 for 90 days- Define cognitive impairment
Objectives
- Define cognitive impairment
- Explore symptoms of cognitive impairment in
- Alzheimer’s
- Dementias
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
- Review APA Treatment Guidelines for counselors working with persons with Alzheimer’s
- Identify methods for effective communication
- Learn how to handle difficult behaviors
- Identify specific issues and interventions for a person with a FASD
$6.00 for 90 days- Define cognitive impairment
Objectives
- Define Compassion-Focused Therapy
- Examine the underlying theory of CFT
- Identify the components of compassion
- Explore the issue of "fear of compassion"
- Review some techniques that can be used in CFT to develop compassion
$45.00 for 90 daysObjective
- Define complex trauma.
- Highlight the cost of complex trauma.
- Examine the impact and diagnostic issues of complex trauma.
- Continue discussing impact of complex trauma on children and adolescents.
- Identify the function of presenting symptoms.
- Learn to apply practical tools to aid in teaching new skills and tools and helping the patient improve quality of life.
$12.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Identify the differences between anticipated and sudden loss and at least five factors that affect individual reactions to loss.
- Explore how people perceive and make sense of trauma and unexpected change and what information and education is most helpful immediately after death.
- Learn effective presence and support measures, self-care techniques, including self-awareness, externalization and actions.
- Review associated complications that can arise from sudden and/or violent death and how to effectively mourn the person who died and maintain a healthy connection.
$12.00 for 90 days Objectives:
The student will learn about:
- Attachment
- The relationship between disrupted attachment and trauma
- The similarities between complicated grief and trauma
- The goals of treatment for someone with traumatic stress as a result of disrupted attachment.
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Describe the function of a mental status exam
- Identify the aspects of emotion, cognition and behavior that are assessed during an exam.
- Differentiate assessment from screening
- List important things to look for when screening for mood disorders, eating disorders, addictions, ADHD or psychotic disorders.
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Review the HIPAA and HITECH and how they directly relate to mental health clinicians regarding confidentiality and accessibility of protected health information.
$30.00 for 90 days - Objectives
Review the highlights of HIPAA and HITECH and how they directly relate to mental health clinicians regarding confidentiality and accessibility of protected health information.$9.00 for 90 days - Objectives:
- Define the critical inner voice
- Explore common messages from The Voice
- Identify helpful responses to The Voice
- Reflect upon why positive affirmations and prior interventions may not have worked.
$6.00 for 90 days Objectives:
- Define and review the concepts of contextual cognitive behavioral therapy
- Explore the impact of context on people’s phenomenological reality
- Explore how addiction and mental health issues can be influenced by context
- Explore how acceptance, awareness, mindfulness and psychological flexibility can be used transdiagnostically.
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives
Addiction and mental health professionals will improve their understanding of:
- American Indian and Alaska Native behavioral health.
- The importance of cultural awareness, cultural identity, and culture-specific knowledge when working with clients from diverse American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
- The role of native culture in health beliefs, help-seeking behavior, and healing practices.
- Prevention and treatment interventions based on culturally adapted, evidence-based best practices.
- Methods for achieving program-level cultural responsiveness, such as incorporating American Indian and Alaska Native beliefs and heritage in program design, environment, and staff development.
$18.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Define self-injury / self-harm
- Differentiate SSI from NSSI
- Dispel myths about NSSI
- Explore prevalence and risk factors
- Identify the types of NSSI and interventions
- Review how NSSI can become lethal
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Define characteristics of effective communication skills
- Identify aspects that need to be assessed to express accurate empathy
- Identify the things to assess to determine client lethality.
- Explore crisis/disaster counseling
- Define the different types of crises
- Identify at least 3 ways to ensure client and personal safety in a crisis
- List at least 5 techniques for de-escalating a crisis.
$6.00 for 90 days Objectives:
- We will explore the following acronyms, ways to teach
them in group practice and how they can benefit people with mental
health as well as addiction issues.
- FINE
- EGO
- FEAR
- HOW
- HALT
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 160 Counseling Tools Acronyms and Activities$12.00 for 90 days- We will explore the following acronyms, ways to teach
them in group practice and how they can benefit people with mental
health as well as addiction issues.
Objectives:
- The Difference between Gender Nonconformity and Gender Dysphoria
- Epidemiologic Considerations
- Explore the Sources of Stigma and Discrimination and Their Impact on Health
- Overview of Therapeutic Approaches for Gender Dysphoria
- Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria
Based in part on Counselor Toolbox Podcast Episode 382
$18.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Identify goals of couples therapy
- Identify common mistakes in couples therapy
- Explore things counselors need to consider when working with couples
Based in part on Counselor Toolbox Podcast 383
$6.00 for 90 days- Identify goals of couples therapy
- Objectives:
- Explore the varying courses of addictive and mental health disorders
- Explore the continuum of addictive behaviors from initiation, intoxication, harmful use, abuse, dependence, withdrawal, craving, relapse and recovery
- Explore the continuum of mental health disorders from mild to severe
$6.00 for 90 days