Counselor Toolbox Podcast
CEUs based on the videos at YouTube Doc Snipes
Objectives:
- Define Psychological Flexibility
- List the Main Principles of Psychological Flexibility
- Identify the Components of Psychological Flexibility
- Describe How to Teach Psychological Flexibility
- Explain the Short Cut Question
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Explore crisis/disaster counseling
- Learn the basic principles of suicide assessment
- Identify ways to estimate suicide risk
- Identify the necessary components for a suicide assessment
- Identify risk management methods including consultation, documentation
- Identify methods for determining appropriate placement
- Understand the factors contributing to suicide risk
$45.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Explore information on the use of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
- Differentially Diagnose Bipolar Disorder and depression
- Recognize general medical conditions and drugs that may mimic depression or mania
- Understand the goals of management of bipolar disorder and depression
- Identify bipolar patients at increased risk of suicide
- Understand the link between bipolar disorder and substance abuse
- Identify key areas of consideration when making a treatment placement decision
- Learn about the areas which patients with bipolar disorder and their families may need education
- Familiarize self with the most common psychopharmacological interventions for bipolar disorder abd depression
$45.00 for 90 days Objectives:
- Identify the symptoms of depression
- Examine the function of depression
- Explore ways depression can become dysfunctional
- Identify the impact of depression on the person and recovery
- Identify interventions that are commonly used to address depression and prevent relapse
- Help for family members or significant others in dealing with a person with this issue
$9.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Explore information on the use of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
- Identify the nature of depressive symptoms, the relationship between these symptoms and the toxic or withdrawal effects of substances, and how depressive symptoms affect treatment participation.
- Explore approaches and psychosocial interventions for working with depressive symptoms, and the clinician's role and responsibilities in relation to substance abuse clients with depressive symptoms.
- Determine specific principles, skills, techniques, and resources that may by used in implementing treatment strategies with clients.
- Recognize the interactive and collaborative process between the counselor and client and how it supports change and enhances psychological and emotional growth.
$30.00 for 90 days Objectives
Based on Counselor Toolbox Podcasts 328-332
- 328 Recovering from Growing Up with an Addicted or Borderline Parent
- 329 Addressing Co-Dependency and Abandonment Fears
- 330 Developing Interpersonal Effectiveness (boundaries, assertiveness)
- 331 Developing Interpersonal Effectiveness: Self-Esteem
- 332 Developing Healthy Support Networks (Saying No, Asking for help, 7-habits)
$18.00 for 90 days- 328 Recovering from Growing Up with an Addicted or Borderline Parent
Objectives
- Help clients identify 3 Steps to a Breakthrough
- Helping clients decide to do the impossible
- Tools to encourage clients to explore motivation: Why we do what we do
- Identify techniques to help clients get unstuck
- Help clients explore whether they use a Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Explain the basic principles of psychological flexibility including awareness, acceptance and purposeful action.
- Describe how to use the flexibility matrix for both prevention of distress as well as interventions to deal with problems.
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Define social justice
- Explore the goals of social justice education to include
- Identity
- Diversity
- Justice
- Action
$9.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Review the basic premises of DBT
- Learn about the HPA-Axis
- Define emotion regulation
- Identify why emotion regulation is important and how it can help clients
- Explore emotion regulation techniques
- Define goals of distress tolerance
Discuss why some clients do not choose distress tolerance
Explore a variety of Distress Tolerance and Reality Acceptance Skills including
- STOP
- Pros and Cons
- TIP
- ACCEPTS
- Self Soothing
- IMPROVE the Moment
- Radical Acceptance
- Turning the Mind
$18.00 for 90 days- Objectives:
- The Basics of DBT
- The B in DBT: What You Need to Know About Behavior
- Mindfulness
- Reducing Emotional Reactivity
- Distress Tolerance Skills
- What Clients Need to Know About Emotions
- Helping Clients Become More Effective In Relationships
- Review the basic principles of mindfulness
- Identify the function of mindfulness
- Differentiate mindfulness from meditation
- Explore a variety of mindfulness techniques
- Explore the concept of relaxation
- Define interpersonal effectiveness
- Identify barriers to interpersonal effectiveness
- Examine the goals of interpersonal effectiveness
- Review techniques for improving interpersonal effectiveness
- Define dialectics
- Explore how dialectics can be used to help clients explore the concepts of reality and truth
- Identify ways in which dialectics can reduce emotional turmoil and distress
$24.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Why was DBT created
- Identify the philosophical and theoretical roots of DBT
- Understanding Emotional Dysregulation
- Identify DBT assumptions about clients and therapists
- Explore skills to help clients learn: Distress Tolerance. Emotional Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness
$18.00 for 90 days - Objectives:
- Explore information on the use of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders;
- Understand the interaction between the diagnoses
- Identify how many "problem” behaviors are semi-functional adaptations to help the person survive
- Develop an understanding for how a positive change in any one area can lead to positive changes throughout the system
$12.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Define the framing bias
- Learn about medical diagnoses and symptoms of substance intoxication or withdrawal which mimic mood disorders
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 184 Differential Diagnosis and the Framing Bias
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Explore the concept of anxiety and regret being energy tied up in the future and the past
- Identify 5 anxiety management techniques and learn methods to tech those
- Identify 5 regret interventions and learn methods to teach those
- Identify 5 ways to help clients find happiness on a daily basis: Daily scavenger hunt
Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 165 Addressing Anxiety and Regret
$9.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- The Potential Utility of Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools
- An Overview of Behavioral Health Technologies
- Emerging Technologies and Future Opportunities
- Integrating Technology Into Existing Services
- Legal and Ethical Issues To Consider
$12.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Define an Eating Disorder
- Discuss indicators of readiness for change
- Explore factors maintaining disordered eating
- Learn how to teach patients to self monitor their eating behaviors
- Explore the crucial issue for many patients with eating disorders of regular eating and weighing
- Learn about the function and effects of Binge Eating, Purging and Driven Exercise
- Identify how moods impact disordered eating
- Explore the role of dietary restriction and rules in maintaining disordered eating, along with guidelines for normal eating.
- Explore how people with eating disorders place an unusually high value on controlling their eating, weight and/or shape, and how they judge their self-worth accordingly
- Review information and strategies to start changing the thoughts associated with disordered eating and weight control habits
- Get introduced to a range of strategies for challenging dietary rules and restriction, and food avoidance.
- Discuss some of the consequences of over-emphasizing shape and weight.
- Explores the role of low self-esteem in disordered eating and weight control habits.
- Peruse strategies for improving self-esteem by developing new rules for living and new, more balanced beliefs about yourself.
- Define the "eating disorder mindset," a set of distorted beliefs about eating, weight and shape
- Develop a plan for maintaining the goals that have been achieved so far and preventing relapse
$45.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Explore information on the use of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
- Summarize the diagnostic characteristics for anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder
- Summarize the most common psychotherapeutic interventions for each disorder
- Describe the characteristics of clients with each of these disorders
- Identify common psychological and medical disorders that cooccur with eating disorders
- Describe how to place patients in any appropriate level of care
- Identify psychological or physical symptoms in comment in eating disorders which may necessitate hospitalization
- Summarize the goals of treatment for persons with eating disorders
$36.00 for 90 days Objectives
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Match clients with substance abuse treatment groups.
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Assess clients’ readiness to participate in group therapy.
- Determine clients’ needs for specialized groups
$6.00 for 90 days-
- Objectives:
- Examine how patient placement instruments were developed to identify the most appropriate level of care
- Explore different patient placement criteria guidelines including the LOCUS, LOCAT, and ASAM
- Discuss the implications for what each patient placement insturment assesses.
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of each instrument.
- Practice using patient placement criteria using case studies
$12.00 for 90 days