Clinical Training Schedules

Ethics in the Helping Professions starts with an explanation of various approaches to ethical decision making. We review an ethical code that outlines common proscriptions in the helping professions, e.g. avoid dual relationships.

We list reasons good counselors make bad decisions, including the impact of burnout, peer pressure, drift, and personal issues.

Helping Clients in Early Recovery prepares professionals for dealing with the frustrations clients may face in the first year of recovery. This training shows professionals how to help clients move from denial through of the first five steps of AA/NA. Each participant is provided with a 167 page workbook Hauling it to the Curb: Cleaning up your life in early recovery.

Holiday Survival is a comprehensive guide designed to help individuals in recovery navigate the emotional, social and psychological challenges of the holiday season. Key themes and messages include understanding relapse as a process, holiday-specific risks to sobriety, and techniques for managing holiday stress.

Medications and Twelve Step Recovery defines abstinence for people taking medications. This training reviews Twelve Step fellowships' official stance on medications and explores using them appropriately. Taking medications is re-framed as a contract, with certain obligations for the person recovering from mental illness and substance abuse.

Professional Empowering, Enabling, and Disabling will discuss holding people responsible for that which they have control over, tracing relapses back to their source, using case-management to prevent relapse, and allowing consumers to feel the natural consequences of their actions. Participants will be asked to look at their own cultural values and developmental issues when deciding how to deal with relapses. The importance of case-management will be stressed, but with a caveat about setting appropriate limits on helping someone.

An Attitude of Gratitude looks at the scientific evidence supporting gratitude’s beneficial qualities. We will examine how gratitude can be used as a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy tool and provide several gratitude exercises.

This training will explore how methamphetamine is similar and dissimilar to other stimulants such as cocaine, crack, and prescription medications. We will help professionals adapt groups for people coping with the neurological and psychological fallout from methamphetamine abuse.

This training will draw heavily from SAMHSA’s TIP 33: Stimulant Abuse Treatment

Changing Addictive Thinking explores how irrational thinking sabotages recovery, and how AA/NA slogans can be used to combat cognitive distortions. It also looks at ways slogans can be misused, e.g. ‘easy does it’ does not mean do very little and wait for recovery to happen on its own.

This training describes ways to help people from mood and substance use disorders.

We will discuss the DSM-V criteria for these disorders, stressing both issues should be treated at the same time, in the same place if possible.

We will also discuss cognitive distortions that contribute to anxiety, depression, and relapse. Suicide prevention and the role of medications in recovery will be focal points.

This training will consider the pitfalls inherent to making assumptions about group members’ understanding of the group process. We will discuss dealing with ‘problem’ group members, e.g. the monopolist.

Much of the focus will be on teaching people to get more out of group, including how to appropriately confront other group members.

We will conclude with several group exercises that don’t require extensive preparation and may contribute to universality.

This training starts with an explanation of various approaches to ethical decision making. We review an ethical code that outlines common proscriptions in the helping professions, e.g. avoid dual relationships.

We list reasons good counselors make bad decisions, including the impact of burnout, peer pressure, drift, and personal issues.

Suicide, Violence, Mental Illness, & Addiction alerts professionals to the connection between violence, suicide, mental illness, and/or addiction. You will be given information on spotting and preventing violence and suicide among people coping with mental illness and/or substance misuse disorders.

The cycles of violence and suicide attempts will be discussed with an eye on how to intervene at each stage. How substance abuse and psychiatric symptoms impact people at each stage will be discussed.

This training will explore how methamphetamine is similar and dissimilar to other stimulants such as cocaine, crack, and prescription medications. We will help professionals adapt groups for people coping with the neurological and psychological fallout from methamphetamine abuse.

This training will draw heavily from SAMHSA’s TIP 33: Stimulant Abuse Treatment.

Changing Addictive Thinking explores how irrational thinking sabotages recovery, and how AA/NA slogans can be used to combat cognitive distortions. It also looks at ways slogans can be misused, e.g. ‘easy does it’ does not mean do very little and wait for recovery to happen on its own.

This training describes ways to help people from mood and substance use disorders.

We will discuss the DSM-V criteria for these disorders, stressing both issues should be treated at the same time, in the same place if possible.

We will also discuss cognitive distortions that contribute to anxiety, depression, and relapse. Suicide prevention and the role of medications in recovery will be focal points.

This training will consider the pitfalls inherent to making assumptions about group members’ understanding of the group process. We will discuss dealing with ‘problem’ group members, e.g. the monopolist.

Much of the focus will be on teaching people to get more out of group, including how to appropriately confront other group members.

We will conclude with several group exercises that don’t require extensive preparation and may contribute to universality.

This training starts with an explanation of various approaches to ethical decision making. We review an ethical code that outlines common proscriptions in the helping professions, e.g. avoid dual relationships.

We list reasons good counselors make bad decisions, including the impact of burnout, peer pressure, drift, and personal issues.

Suicide, Violence, Mental Illness, & Addiction alerts professionals to the connection between violence, suicide, mental illness, and/or addiction. You will be given information on spotting and preventing violence and suicide among people coping with mental illness and/or substance misuse disorders.

The cycles of violence and suicide attempts will be discussed with an eye on how to intervene at each stage. How substance abuse and psychiatric symptoms impact people at each stage will be discussed.