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Helping Clients with Dual Disorders

Tracking # 20-1345600

$75.00

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Course overview

The purpose of this course is to teach professionals how to help people overcome co-occurring substance use disorders and mental illness. This course stresses treating both illnesses in the same place, at the same time, with the same team. Adapting Twelve Step principles and strategies to dual recovery is also stressed. One of the key adaptations will be employing a five-step process for taking medications appropriately. The course provides numerous how to suggestions, including ideas for running treatment groups. Participants will be asked to read Celebrating Small Victories: A Counselor's Manual For Treating Chronic Mental Illness And Substance Abuse. They will then take a 46 item test. If they answer 75 percent of the questions correctly, the will receive a certificate for eight hours.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board

Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant

2h C2-Counseling procedures and strategies as applied to those with substance use disorder
2h C3-Group process and techniques
2h C1-Substance Use Disorder & Recovery Knowledge
1h C5-Family Dynamics
1h C4- Assessment and diagnosis of substance use disorder

Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor II

2h C3-Group process and techniques
2h C2-Counseling procedures and strategies as applied to those with substance use disorder
1h C5-Family Dynamics
2h C1-Substance Use Disorder & Recovery Knowledge
1h C4- Assessment and diagnosis of substance use disorder

Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor III

2h C1-Substance Use Disorder & Recovery Knowledge
1h C5-Family Dynamics
2h C3-Group process and techniques
2h C2-Counseling procedures and strategies as applied to those with substance use disorder
1h C4- Assessment and diagnosis of substance use disorder

Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor

2h C3-Group process and techniques
2h C2-Counseling procedures and strategies as applied to those with substance use disorder
1h C4- Assessment and diagnosis of substance use disorder
1h C5-Family Dynamics
2h C1-Substance Use Disorder & Recovery Knowledge

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