The Practice of Addiction Counseling

Learn the best evidence-based practices and tools for treatment and recovery support for in-person and virtual services and learn to help your clients remain open to change. Register Today!

Description

Initiating addiction treatment is much like a puzzle. To create an effective treatment plan, you must understand the layers and nuances of the client's history-digging into the client's biological, psychological, emotional, and systemic background-and conceptualize the case, making hypotheses that serve as a map to which factors you must address and in what order.

The Practice of Addiction Counseling Learning Path will identify the data you need to describe and contextualize the client accurately, and the best evidence-based practices and tools for treatment and recovery support. It will explain considerations when offering remote services and how to leverage your relationship with the client to help them recognize and resolve their ambivalence while remaining open to change.

What You Will Learn

Elevate your scope of practice to better serve those struggling with addiction

Define a biopsychosocial intake and assessment.
Describe screening and assessment considerations with special populations.
Explore the transtheoretical model (stages of change).
Define what a case conceptualization encompasses.
Describe the process involved in diagnosing a client with a substance use disorder (SUD).
Describe the process of co-creating a treatment plan.
Understand and apply the NAADAC Code of Ethics.

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Eligibility

Must be 18 Years or older

Refund Policy

You will have seven days to request a full refund after purchase. No hidden fees. All books and materials are included with purchase.

Curriculum

Micro-Course 1 - Collecting the Data: Intake & Biopsychosocial Assessment
Discover a client-centered treatment plan that demonstrates incorporation of data from screening and assessment tools and processes that are sensitive to age, gender, race or ethnicity, culture, or disability
Micro-Course 2 - Case Conceptualization: Diagnosis & Treatment Planning
Examine at least three (3) models that attempt to explain how substance use disorders develop and at least three (3) treatment modalities used to address substance use disorders and addictive behavior disorders (ABD).
Micro-Course 3 - Telehealth & Ethical Practice
Understand the clinician's professional and ethical responsibilities when working with clients who are directly or indirectly dealing with substance use disorder and/or addictive behavior disorder.
Micro-Course 4 - Using Motivational Interviewing to Carry the Conversation
Explore what motivational interviewing is, explain its component parts, and demonstrate how it can be used to help clients struggling with substance use disorders and addictive behavior disorders.

Accreditation

This professional development offering has been approved by Walden University, a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 20 CEs. Walden University (NAADAC Provider #72251) is responsible for all aspects of its programming.

Applicable NAADAC counselor skill groups: Clinical Intake and Screening, Clinical Assessment, Treatment Plan, Counseling Services, Case Management, and Discharge and Continuing Care