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Anger, Alcoholism, and Addiction: Treating Individuals, Couples, and
Families
 Authors: Ronald T. Potter-Efron, M.S.W., Ph.D. and Patricia S. Potter-Efron, M.S.


Textbook Course
 18 CEHs
Teach clients how to manage their anger in healthy ways! This advanced course discusses the relationship between anger, aggression and substance abuse. The major themes of the text include understanding what each client's anger means to that person, how one individual's anger affects others, and how anger issues can be addressed.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify the characteristics of normal anger, anger avoidance and chronic anger.
  • Examine the relationship between anger and substance abuse.
  • Describe the behavior patterns associated with expressing anger appropriately.
  • List the goals of anger management.
Counseling the Female Alcoholic: Examining Motivational
Techniques Within the Therapeutic Relationship
Author: Judith Goodman, Ph.D.		    


eBook Course
12 CEHs
Help your clients through the difficult and painful process of confronting their alcoholism! This advanced course describes ways of building trust, rapport and compassion between the counselor and the female clients. It also discusses how to make an accurate diagnosis for alcoholism and/or drug addiction in women that includes the existence of dual diagnosis. The course examines diagnostic and intervention strategies for female alcoholics and explores a number of effective approaches in presenting a diagnosis.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Describe a number of effective approaches in presenting a diagnosis to the client.
  • Identify key factors that can make an intervention successful.
  • Identify the internal obstacles women face in accepting the diagnosis of alcoholism.
  • List techniques for enhancing motivation for the treatment-resistant client.
  • Recognize the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship that promote an effective intervention.
On Being Alcoholic: Identity Crisis During the Diagnostic Stage ofTreatment
Author: Judith Goodman, Ph.D.		    


eBook Course
10 CEHs
This course examines the topic of female alcoholism and addresses the “identity crisis” that clients face during the diagnostic process. This text identifies the stages clients experience in coming to terms with their addiction, the techniques counselors can implement to support their clients through the identity crisis of early sobriety, and examines the areas of concern that can lead to obstacles for recovery.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Recognize the symptoms of alcoholism.
  • Identify the stages of the diagnostic process.
  • List the steps for each stage of the diagnostic process.
  • Discuss the rules of the alcoholic culture.
  • List the questions counselors must ask clients to promote the diagnostic process.
  • Identify the identity crisis that clients confront during the diagnostic process.
The Book of Ethics: Expert Guidance for Professionals Who Treat Addiction
Editors: Cynthia M. A. Geppert, M.D. and Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D.


Text Book Course
 10 CEHs


This course addresses ethical issues in substance abuse treatment, including the therapeutic relationship, cultural and spiritual dimensions of addiction treatment, the ethics of harm reduction, treating patients with co-occurring disorders, treating women, children and adolescents with substance abuse, treating patients with chronic pain, and forensic issues in the treatment of addictions.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Identify the ethical issues in the treatment of women, children and adolescents.
  • Recognize the ethical dilemmas in treating chronic pain in patients with substance abuse.
  • List the eight ethical principles in addiction treatment.
  • Explain the characteristics of the therapeutic relationship.
  • Discuss the ethical concerns of clinicians in recovery.
  • Define the ethics of harm reduction.
  • Discuss the ethical dilemmas in treating patients with co-occurring disorders.
  • List the cultural and spiritual dimensions of addiction treatment.
  • Discuss the forensic issues in addiction treatment.
Stepfamilies: A Guide to Working with Stepparents and Stepchildren
Authors: Emily B. Visher, Ph.D. and John S. Visher, M.D.


Text Book Course
 18 CEHs


Important information for clinicians working with stepfamilies, this course examines the specific problems and challenges faced by stepfamilies including: coping with loss, divided loyalties, "instant" love, unrealistic expectations, working out rules regarding family behavior, sexuality, stepsibling rivalry, recoupling issues, wicked stepmother myths, relationships with ex-spouses, adolescent stepchildren, rejection by stepchildren, and problems surrounding differing needs and sets of values. The authors discuss individual, couple, and group counseling goals and treatment strategies for stepfamilies and children of various ages.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • List the cultural characteristics of stepfamilies.
  • Identify the structural characteristics of stepfamilies.
  • Discuss the major topics usually covered in group work with stepfamilies.
  • Identify the major psychological tasks faced by stepfamilies.
  • Recognize the recoupling issues faced by the stepfamily.
  • Identify unique issues confronted by children in stepfamilies.
  • Define permeable stepfamily boundaries.
Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad
Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Authors: Carol Tavris, Ph.D. and Elliot Aronson, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
12 CEHs
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, experts in the area of social psychology, examine how people respond to making mistakes in their careers, marriages, and lives. False memories, self-justification, cognitive dissonance and the confirmation bias are all defined and explored -- how these mechanisms promote mistakes in identifying child abuse accurately, in marital conflicts, and in clinical work.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Define cognitive dissonance.
  • List the ways self-justification reduces cognitive dissonance.
  • Identify how inducements compromise integrity.
  • Recognize the bias of memory.
  • Define confirmation bias.
  • Discuss how interviewing techniques impact child abuse cases.
  • Recognize how self-justification plays a role in conflicts between couples.
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail
Author: John Gottman, Ph.D.


Text Book Course
15 CEHs
Considered a leading expert in the area of marriage counseling, Dr. John Gottman has done extensive research for over 20 years with more than 2,000 couples. In this text, he teaches how to identify the four warning signs that spell demise of a relationship. The text also describes highly effective tools for helping couples improve their marriage.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Recognize the characteristics of different styles of marriage.
  • List the three styles of marriage that lead to successful relationships.
  • Recognize the cycle of negativity.
  • Describe the dangers of "flooding" and "stonewalling".
  • Identify problem areas and unhealthy patterns of behavior that can lead to divorce.
  • Identify the warning signs that lead to divorce.
The Myths Behind Marriage and Motherhood:
Understanding the Source of Women's Anger
Author: Judith Goodman, Ph.D.		 View Text Information   


eBook Course
 10 CEHs
Fairy tales and myths set women up for unrealistic expectations in their marriages and in their roles as mothers. Forced to confront the truth or submit to the stereotype, women pay a price no matter what they choose to do. That price women pay for trying to live the fantasy is to suffer from anger and rage, depression and anxiety disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction, as well as eating disorders. This course introduces the treatment issues involved in confronting the myths, teaching female clients to express their anger appropriately, and breaking the cycle of rage.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Identify how women's anger and rage affects family dynamics and relationships.
  • List the factors contributing to the cycle of rage experienced by women.
  • Describe the myths about women as wives and mothers.
  • Discuss how these myths have been perpetuated in our society.
  • Define healthy boundaries in relationships.
  • List treatment issues.
You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in
 Conversation
Author: Deborah Tannen


Textbook Course
 12 CEHs
Improve communication between mothers and daughters. This course provides an in-depth view of mother/daughter relationships and explores how the words exchanged between them has a tremendous influence on the nature of their relationship. Deborah Tannen examines communication patterns that can often lead to misunderstandings. She also discusses the literal meaning behind the words women use and the distinction between what is said and what is heard.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify the complex dynamics of mothers and daughters in conversation.
  • Recognize how the mother/daughter relationship effects communication.
  • Examine how mother/daughter conversations can lead to verbal conflict.
  • Detail the steps necessary to change the pattern of negative interaction.
  • Describe methods for improving communication between mothers and daughters.
  • Identify the metamessage and message in conversations.
The Link Between A.D.D. and Addiction: Getting the Help You Deserve
Author: Wendy Richardson, M.A.


Textbook Course
 15 CEHs
According to the author, as many as 50% of Americans with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) use alcohol and other drugs to medicate their ADD symptoms. This use often leads to addiction, causing even more problems for those already leading chaotic lives due to their ADD. This course examines the relationship between ADD and addictive behavior and offers insight and help for people with ADD, who are also struggling with an addiction. The text provides self-tests and checklists to help identify both ADD and addiction, as well as offering practical solutions for recovery.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify ADD symptoms and addictive behavior.
  • List the biological and genetic components of ADD and addiction.
  • Recognize when people with ADD are self-medicating with alcohol and/or other drugs.
  • Evaluate a treatment plan for ADD, with or without medications.
  • Describe ADD and addiction relapse issues.
Next Time, She'll Be Dead: Battering & How to Stop It
Author: Ann Jones, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 12 CEHs
This course examines the history of domestic violence in our society with an overview of the laws and rights of battered women. The text describes society's view of the battered woman by pointing out that the most commonly asked question is, "Why doesn't she leave?" rather than, "Why doesn't he stop battering her?" It also explores the roles of society, law enforcement, the legal system, and the media on the public's perception of battered women. Recommendations for making changes are offered at the conclusion of the text.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Recognize the characteristics and symptoms of battering.
  • Identify the ways our society encourages violence against women.
  • Examine how the legal system, law enforcement and gender biases contribute to the complexities of battering and domestic violence.
  • Describe how battering changes and affects the lives of those it touches.
  • List the options and alternatives available to victims of domestic violence and their families.

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Author: Mary Pipher, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 15 CEHs
Learn how to help adolescents and their parents deal with the emotional and psychological issues facing girls growing up in this society. This advanced course examines the psychosocial factors contributing to the current psychological problems faced by adolescent girls entering into adolescence. Also discussed are strategies that counselors can use to help guide girls into maintaining their true selves and grow into healthy adults.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • List the ways teenage girls are forced to choose between staying true to themselves or conforming to society's narrow definition of what it means to be female.
  • Identify the most common psychological problems faced by adolescent girls.
  • Describe how teen-aged girls are vulnerable to depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, violence, and sexual abuse.
  • Examine how consumerism and the media pressure young girls to conform to society's ideals about women.
ADHD and Teens: Proven Techniques for Handling emotional, Academic,
 and Behavioral Problems
 Author: Colleen Alexander-Roberts


Textbook Course
 12 CEHs
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common behavioral disorder in teenagers. This course discusses behavioral patterns associated with the disorder, diagnostic criteria and the use of medication as a treatment method. The text provides valuable information on the strategies and techniques for treating and managing ADHD in teenagers.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify the diagnostic criteria and symptoms of ADHD in teens.
  • Discuss the different stages of teen development and ADHD.
  • List the challenges faced by parents and ADHD teens transitioning from adolescence to adulthood.
  • Recognize the most common comorbid conditions linked to ADHD and teens.
  • Describe techniques for handling emotional, behavioral and academic issues associated with teen ADHD.
  • List the parental strategies for managing ADHD teens, within the social, family and school settings.
Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in
Relationships
Author: Susan Peabody


Textbook Course
 9 CEHs
Help your clients overcome the distorted thoughts, feelings, and behaviors associated with love addiction. The text takes an in-depth look into the many forms of love addiction, from the fatal attraction-type obsessive love addict, to the ambivalent love addict, who craves, but fears it at the same time. The book presents a solid, easy to follow, program for recovery, and explains how to form healthy relationships.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Identify the contributing factors that lead to love addiction.
  • Recognize the different forms of addiction to love.
  • Describe the characteristics of love addiction.
  • Identify the progressive stages of the disease.
  • Develop a recovery plan for the love addict.
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships
 Author: Patrick J. Carnes, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 11 CEHs
This course presents an in-depth study of the complex issues surrounding exploitive relationships, why they form, who is most susceptible, and how they become so powerful. The text examines the trauma bonding process, which the author refers to as the "betrayal bond" and describes how to recognize when traumatic bonding has occurred.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Recognize the cycles of abuse and the roles of the victim, victimizer, and rescuer.
  • List the ways trauma continues to affect people over time.
  • Identify the signs and presence of betrayal bonds.
  • Describe the path of awareness, path of action and the path of recovery.
  • Develop a checklist for examining relationships.
  • Formulate the steps to safely separate from these types of relationships.
Passages through Recovery: An Action Plan For Preventing Relapse
Author: Terence T. Gorski, M.A.


Textbook Course
 7 CEHs
Terence Gorski, recognized as a leader in the chemical dependency treatment field, describes the stages of recovery from chemical dependency and offers sound advice for working with clients through the challenges of each stage. The text presents a comprehensive approach to recovery and relapse prevention based on the author's extensive clinical experience.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • List the six progressive stages of recovery.
  • Recognize the symptoms of addiction and the signs of relapse.
  • Develop a recovery program.
  • Describe methods for relapse prevention.
Reclaim Your Family from Addiction: How Couples and Families Recover
 Love and Meaning
 Author: Craig Nakken, M.S.W.


Textbook Course
 12 CEHs
This course examines the family dynamics when one member suffers from addiction. The text identifies the “normal” responses of loved ones during when addiction dominates family members’ interactions. The author describes the stages of family addiction (Stage 1: Adjustment; Stage 2: Development of a Protective Persona; Stage 3: Hopelessness) and identifies how addiction affects family relationships between the couple and between parents and children. Finally, the author introduces a recovery plan through early, middle, and late recovery that the family will follow as the healing process takes place.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Develop an understanding of the "principles of betterment".
  • Define the three stages of addiction.
  • Describe how the addictive process affects family relationships.
  • Identify how addiction affects children.
  • Recognize the obstacles to a successful recovery program.
  • List the tasks accomplished by the family in early, middle, and late recovery.

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embracing Disorganization at
Home and in the Workplace
Author: Sari Solden, M.S.


Textbook Course
 18 CEHs
Learn to properly diagnose ADD in women as well as how to formulate an effective treatment plan. This course offers a comprehensive examination of Attention Deficit Disorder in women, including an overview of the diagnostic criteria and treatment issues specific to women. The text uses real-life case histories to examine the special challenges ADD women face, including how difficult it is for girls and women to be diagnosed accurately, and why women can go undiagnosed for so long. The author also presents a treatment approach that covers the essential requirements for restructuring life, renegotiating relationships, and refining the ADD woman's self-image.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Examine the specific challenges and struggles women with ADD face.
  • List the consequences for women when they go undiagnosed.
  • Recognize the specific characteristics of ADD in women.
  • Describe the challenges ADD women face in life during the treatment process because of their roles in society.
  • Identify the strategies and support necessary for successful treatment of the disorder in women.

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