Women and Addiction Continuing Education Services

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 Category Number of Units eBook Courses
 
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Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and
 Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them
Author: Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D.


Text Book Course
 12 CEHs
According to the author, workaholism is the "pretty addiction" because it is associated with status, power and money. Nevertheless, workaholism is devastating, not only to the workaholic, but also to their spouse and children. This course identifies the ramifications of this addiction on the family, the work environment, and on the person suffering from the disease.

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

  • Identify the characteristics of workaholism.
  • List the conditions that enable work addiction.
  • Define the myths about work addiction.
  • List the signs of work addiction.
  • Describe the classifications of workaholics.
  • Recognize how to use the WART.
  • Explain the steps of developing a self-care plan.
  • Identify the Family System Addictions Model.
Straight Talk: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids About Drugs
 and Alcohol
Author: Claudia Black, Ph.D.


Text Book Course
6 CEHs
Teach your clients what they should tell their children about their addiction, their children’s genetic vulnerability to addiction, and the guidelines to reduce the risk of addiction in their children. This course examines the family in recovery and how parents can support their children and educate them about addiction. The text discusses characteristics of addiction, differences in use, brain chemistry, environmental influences, multiple addiction, risk factors, reshaping family roles, and protective factors.

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

  • Discuss the facts about and characteristics of addiction.
  • Identify the genetic influences.
  • Recognize the environmental factors.
  • List the risk factors that can lead to addiction.
  • Explain how to restructure family roles.
  • List the protective factors that reduce addiction.
  • Describe what to say to children of different ages about addiction.
Treating Pornography Addiction: The Essential Tools for Recovery
Author: Kevin B. Skinner, Ph.D.


Text Book Course
 8 CEHs
Pornography is rapidly becoming one of the fastest growing and easily accessed addictions with the advent of the Internet. This course is developed to help clinicians better understand and assess the levels of pornography addiction in clients. Learn how to deactivate the reaction sequence, confront belief systems, recognize the development of addiction, create a “game plan”, and identify the stages of changes. The text for this course addresses the process of recovery from pornography addiction.

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

  • Recognize the levels of pornography addiction.
  • Define how to deactivate the reaction sequence.
  • Identify the beliefs that support pornography addiction.
  • List the six stages of change.
  • Discuss the key elements of the preparation stage.
  • Identify the characteristics of clients most likely to relapse.
Ethics for Addiction Professionals
 Authors: LeClair Bissell, M.D. and James E. Royce, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 4 CEHs
This course provides a comprehensive view of the ethical issues that are present in the addiction field, from Employee Assistance Programs to treatment and aftercare. By addressing probing questions that illuminate today's complex ethical landscape, the authors explore how standard guidelines for professional conduct benefit counselors and clients alike.

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

  • Identify confidentiality and mandated reporting requirements.
  • Define appropriate and unacceptable referral practices.
  • Recognize how to determine your limitations and know when to refer out.
  • Describe proper chain of command and channels of authority.
The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model
Authors: Stephanie Brown, Ph.D. and Virginia Lewis, Ph.D.


Text Book Course
18 CEHs


This course explores the process of recovery from alcoholism as it affects the entire family. The text presents an innovative model for understanding and treating families navigating through this difficult period. The text is an essential tool for clinicians from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and will enhance the work of addictions treatment specialists, couple and family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, and nurses.

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

  • Discuss the developmental process of recovery.
  • Recognize the safety issues for children.
  • List the defense mechanisms of the drinking stage.
  • Explain the clearly defined, predictable tasks and stages of recovery.
  • Identify the issues for couples during the stages of recovery.
  • List the factors that influence recovery.
  • Identify the rules and roles of the alcoholic family and the recovering family.
  • Discuss the value of 12-step programs to recovery.
Women, Anger & Depression: Strategies for Self-Empowerment
Author: Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
5 CEHs

  
This course examines the relationship between anger and depression, and how it affects women. The text explores how women have been told they don't know what they are talking about regarding their own minds and bodies, which has lead to generations of women who don't trust themselves, don't trust other women and don't permit themselves to know their full potential.

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

  • Describe the different types of depression and how it manifests in women.
  • Recognize the symptoms of unexpressed anger in women.
  • List methods female clients can use to regain control of their emotions and lives.
  • Identify ways women can learn to trust their feelings and instincts.
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners
Author: Kenneth M. Adams, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 5 CEHs
Help clients overcome the damage done when parents lack appropriate boundaries. This course identifies the complex relationship between child and parent and what happens when boundaries are violated. The information describes the victimization process and its consequences. It also distinguishes the differences between overt and covert incest and identifies the behavior patterns that lead to covert incest.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify the characteristics of covert incest.
  • Distinguish between covert and overt incest.
  • Describe how boundaries are violated.
  • Recognize the denial process involved in covert incest.
  • Examine the victimization process and its consequences to the child.
  • List the steps to take to begin the recovery process.

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Author: Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 15 CEHs
Teach your clients how to improve their communication skills and overcome conflict and misunderstanding. This course takes an in-depth look into how gender and culture influences communication styles. The text describes the hierarchal and connective structure of public and private conversations.

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

  • Identify contrasting conversational styles in communication.
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  • Describe the symmetries and asymmetries of listening and speaking.
  • Discuss advanced methods for improving clients' communication skills.
  • Recognize gender differences in speaking.
  • Distinguish between "public" and "private" speaking styles.
Counseling the Alcoholic Woman
Author: Joseph F. Perez, Ph.D.


Text Book Course
12 CEHs
This course explores the subject of female alcoholism and examines theoretical concerns and practical techniques, both in individual and group counseling. The text discusses the stages of alcoholism and the recovery process in women alcoholics. Defense mechanisms are examined, as well as enabling, and what it means to grow up in the alcoholic home.

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

  • List the most common defense mechanisms.
  • Discuss the progression of alcoholism.
  • Identify the stages of the recovery process.
  • Recognize the primary and secondary goals of counseling alcoholic women
  • Describe techniques in restructuring defenses.
  • List the benefits of group counseling.
Step-By Step-Parenting: A Guide to Successful Living with a Blended Family
 Author: James D. Eckler


Textbook Course
 10 CEHs
Help clients understand the dynamics of stepfamilies, including the unique difficulties in communication, parenting, and the couples’ relationships. The author discusses finances, background differences, stepsibling rivalries, custody battles, discipline, loyalty issues, trust, and jealousy. Also explored are the developmental tasks for children of each age group, together with the ten secrets of a happy marriage.

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

  • Define the role of background differences in establishing the new family.
  • Discuss the issues of authority and power within the stepfamily.
  • List the ten secrets of a happy marriage.
  • Identify stepsibling rivalries unique to this family structure.
  • List the developmental tasks of children from birth to sixteen years old.
  • Describe methods for improving communication skills.
  • List the discipline issues unique to stepfamilies.

The Myth of the Perfect Mother: Parenting Without Guilt
Author: Jane Swigart, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 12 CEHs
Help clients confront society's image of the perfect mother. This course examines the emotional realities of motherhood. Central to this exploration is a discussion of our culture's ability to simultaneously idealize and devalue the mother's role in American families. The course materials describe the "good mother/bad mother" myth that exists in popular literature, the media, and in society.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify the ways women are affected by the myths around motherhood.
  • Examine the dynamics between mother and children that lead to these myths.
  • Describe the dual image of motherhood that exists in American society.
  • List the ways clients can confront the myth about being the perfect mother.
Marriage on the Rocks: Learning to Live with Yourself and an Alcoholic
 Author: Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D.


Textbook Course
 5 CEHs
Recognize the dynamics of the alcoholic marriage, the effects on the spouse, and the damage done to the children. Help clients who are married to alcoholics develop their own separate recovery process. The author, Janet G. Woititz, stressed the importance of recovery for the spouse, regardless of whether the alcoholic is sober or continues drinking.

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

  • Describe the behavioral traits of the alcoholic.
  • List the defense mechanisms and characteristics of the spouse.
  • Identify the effects on children of having an alcoholic parent.
  • Develop a recovery plan for the family of an alcoholic.
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Keys To Successful Stepmothering
Author: Philippa Greene Mulford


Textbook Course
 6 CEHs
Offer your clients practical solutions for achieving harmony in the stepfamily. This course examines the role of the stepmother in developing a healthy stepfamily, addresses common stepfamily issues, confronts the myths of the wicked stepmother, and discusses appropriate ways to merge two families.

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

  • Describe ways to merge two families.
  • Identify common stepfamily issues that frequently lead to conflict.
  • List ways to avoid common misunderstandings between stepmothers and stepchildren.
  • Recognize the effects of divorce and stepfamilies on children.
  • Identify the myths associated with stepmothers and stepfamilies.
  • Recognize how these myths lead to conflict.
  • List the characteristics of a healthy stepfamily.
Parenting the Teenage Brain: Understanding a Work in Progress
Author: Sheryl Feinstein, Ed.D.


Text Book Course
 7 CEHs
Teenage behavior can be unpredictable and often challenging for parents. This course offers an in-depth look into the developing adolescent brain and presents techniques for strengthening and refining parenting skills. The text is based on neuroscientific studies of the brain, and offers into adolescents' emotional and cognitive behavior.

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

  • Identify the neurological and psychological stages of growth in the adolescent brain.
  • List the neurological reasons behind the unpredictability of teenage behavior.
  • Recognize the three main parenting styles.
  • Identify the parenting style most effective with adolescents.
  • Describe successful parenting strategies in light of adolescent brain development.

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