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A New Dimension in Addiction Counseling-Perceptual Adjustment Theory (PAT)-FADP Members-Click Here
This training course is developed to enhance the students' skills with new, advanced strategies and basic knowledge of addiction counseling. It will expose students to Perceptual Adjustment Therapy, an elegant therapy designed to individualize the treatment process while respecting the client in his or her present dilemma. Perceptual Adjustment Therapy presents strategies, which anticipate and resolve the conditions of relapse, dry drunk syndrome, switching addictions, and spiritual unrest. A complimentary benefit of using these strategies is in assisting the counselor to prevent personal burnout and promote health and well being.
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Addiction: Effective Intervention Strategies-Click Here
This course is designed to focus on new and proven effective intervention strategies, techniques and resources for understanding, confrontation and dealing with Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Addiction… In the Workplace … and Any Place. Topics of concentration that will be addressed are: Definitions & Warning Signs, Problem Indications, Drug –Free Workplace, Documentation and Resources. Methods of instruction will be a combination of case studies, problem analysis along with didactic teaching techniques.
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Basic HIV/AIDS Education-Click Here
Subtitled Preventing HIV Disease Among Substance Abusers and Treatment Planning for the Client with HIV Disease, this course is designed to enable counselors and other program personnel to incorporate HIV disease prevention efforts into existing substance abuse treatment and prevention services. Participants will learn: the connection between substance abuse and HIV disease and fundamental principles unique to prevention efforts with this target population; relevant information about HIV, transmission, disease progression and symptoms; strategies for targeted prevention education; counseling techniques for personal decision making about HIV antibody testing; skills in risk assessment, risk reduction and health promotion; and methods for integrating HIV disease prevention into ongoing responsibilities.
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Compulsive Gambling: Hidden Addiction-Click Here
The course is intended for Addiction counselors, Human service professionals, and EPA professionals. Studies indicate that 10%-30% of an addictions counselor's caseload is made up of problems related to pathological gambling. Left undetected this impulse control disorder can disrupt an addicts recovery program leading to relapse after relapse. Likewise left untreated The clients family, vocational and social pursuits and be severely disrupted, the Course Will focus on screening tools, DMS IV criteria intervention and concomitant treatment strategies for dually addicted gamblers and their family members. We will examine the explosive growth of the gambling industry and the impact on the treatment community. Methods of instruction will include role-play, small group exercises, films and didactic instruction methods.
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Coping With Domestic Violence: Strategies and Techniques-Click Here
One of the problems pervasive to our culture is domestic violence. We hear reports of emotional and physical abuse and neglect on a daily basis. The phenomenon is not new. It has in fact existed for centuries, but it is only in the last few years that domestic violence has been brought to the forefront. Abuse and neglect affect an alarming radius of one's life--personally as well as at the workplace. This problem with violence is usually interdependent with another problem. Understanding the mutual influences and the symbiotic relationships is necessary for the health professional to effectively assess and manage these cases. The question before us now is, "What can be done to reverse the alarming trend?" and "How can we protect those being affected?" This course will focus on those issues.
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Denial and Acceptance-Click Here
DUI Approved-3 CEUs
Code: C308
This course is designed to provide the participant with an understanding of the various modes of denial and the defense systems involving denial. The past experience and case study analysis activities related to denial and resistance of the modes will be used to familiarize the participants and assist them in identifying the appropriate response in the presented situations. Participants will be involved in problem solving of the major stages of chemical dependency with an emphasis on the process and involvement of denial and acceptance in these major stages. The participants will acquire an understanding of the impact of the recovery process on the denial system using the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Developing a Viable, Drug-Free Workplace: An EAP Strategy-Click Here
This course is designed to focus on new and problematic areas that have proven troublesome for EAPs in developing a viable Drug-Free Workplace. Topics of concentration that will be addressed are: drug-free workplace policy and procedures, confidentiality, drug testing, ethics, legal aspects, risk management. Methods of instruction will be a combination of case studies, problem analysis along with didactic teaching techniques.
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Employee Assistance Programming: Past, Present, and Future-Click Here
The EAP has traditionally been the looked upon as the service that offers alcohol & drug intervention and short-term counseling for employees of organizations. During the past 5 years, the EAP professional has been tasked with an Increasing number of responsibilities that extend well beyond the traditional EAP role. The EAP may be called upon to conduct mediation, intervene in resolution of departmental conflicts, and be prepared to offer CISD services or intervene in a potentially violent situation. In some areas, the EAP professional may be asked to organize a health promotion program or oversee the Workers Compensation programs. In short, the EAP professional is being increasingly tasked to assume more and more responsibilities for which they may or may not have training. Should the EAP professional limit their services to the traditional role of counselor or, in order to survive, must they expand their roles to include wider service organizations? This course will explore these issues through case studies, situational/problem solving exercises and text reading.
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Facilitating Spiritual Passages-Click Here
This course brings to the practicing counselor the ways and means for assisting clients with spiritual concerns. Sensitive counselors will recognize that, overtly or covertly, clients do bring their spiritual concerns to the helping and healing relationship. Here you will find an understanding of spirituality that speaks to the concern of counselors not to be sectarian or prescriptive. Understandings, skills, exercises - all tools that have direct application to the helping process are presented. The evolution of spirituality in recovery from illness, and in the life cycle generally, is presented in a way that makes clear the intervention technologies that are called for. Healing reaches all domains of human nature: physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual. Counselors will come from this course with greater ability to recognize the spiritual issues of clients and greater comfort and skill for the task of facilitating their spiritual pilgrimage.
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Introspection in Recovery: A Mythological Journey-Click Here
This course includes examination of the "three phases of introspection" involved in attempts at recovery. It is believed that Recovery (from any addiction or past trauma, etc.) includes "visits" to three life areas or introspective targets. Mythologically speaking, the three targets for introspection include "the mud", "the marshes", and "the caverns". You will notice that most models for recovery (including the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous) capitalize on the importance of introspection in these life areas. In this course the "three phases of introspection" will be clarified with applications made to clinical practice. Presentation of information will be accomplished through narratives including possibilities for "story telling" as well as via case studies and text readings.
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