Women and Addiction Continuing Education Services

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 Category Number of Units eBook Courses
 
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Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention
Authors: Terence T. Gorski, M.A. and Merlene Miller, M.A.


Textbook Course
 10 CEHs
Long considered the pioneers of relapse prevention, Terence Gorski and Merlene Miller provide a comprehensive overview of recovery from alcohol and drug addiction in their book Staying Sober. The course examines the disease of addiction, the symptoms of withdrawal, the stages of recovery, and the steps for relapse prevention. The text describes the best tools for relapse prevention planning and presents an in-depth understanding of the relapse process.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Recognize the characteristics of alcohol and drug addiction.
  • Identify the symptoms of withdrawal.
  • List the warning signs of relapse.
  • Describe a relapse prevention plan.
  • Develop a treatment and recovery plan for the alcoholic or drug addict.
Stage II Relationships: Love Beyond Addiction
 Author: Earnie Larsen


Textbook Course
 4 CEHs
Help clients to develop and maintain healthy, nurturing relationships. This course explores the subject of relationships after sobriety has been achieved. The text describes techniques and methods for breaking the pattern of unhealthy behavior and offers strategies to make relationships work.

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

  • Identify behavioral patterns that lead to unhealthy relationships.
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  • Describe the skills required for maintaining healthy relationships.
  • List the six patterns of codependent behavior.
  • Develop a program for improving communication and establishing trust and understanding.
Understanding Co-dependency
Authors: Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse, M.A. and Joseph Cruse, M.D.


Text Book Course
 3 CEHs
This course examines the symptoms, complications, treatment, and recovery from co-dependency. According to the authors, co-dependency can be seen as a personal struggle with a variety of compulsive diseases and distorted behaviors. The text identifies the interaction between brain chemicals and the behaviors that stimulate the brain to establish compulsive and addictive behavioral processes.

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

  • Recognize the symptoms of co-dependency.
  • Describe the characteristics of the co-dependency trap.
  • List the components that contribute to chemical dependency.
  • Identify the self-defense behavioral patterns within the co-dependent family system.
  • Develop a recovery plan for treating co-dependency.

Understanding Girls with AD/HD
Authors: Kathleen G Nadeau, Ph.D., Ellen B. Littman, Ph.D. and Patricia O. Quinn, M.D.


Textbook Course
 14 CEHs
This course focuses on how girls with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) differ from boys with AD/HD. The text examines how AD/HD girls often go undiagnosed, and how to address the special needs AD/HD girls have with school, their social world and at home. A bonus is the age-related checklists, from pre-school to high school, provided in the text that enable parents and professionals to better identify girls with AD/HD throughout childhood and on through adolescence.

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

  • Recognize the characteristics of AD/HD in girls.
  • Examine the gender differences between girls and boys with AD/HD.
  • List the developmental characteristics of AD/HD in girls from preschool through the teen years.
  • Describe the ways AD/HD girls' symptoms increase at puberty.
  • Identify the challenges girls with AD/HD face growing up.
  • Formulate a treatment plan for girls with AD/HD.
Struggle for Intimacy
Author: Janet G. Woititz, Ed.D.


Textbook Course
 3 CEHs
Teach clients the successful steps to developing healthy relationships. This course examines the factors that contribute to difficulties with intimacy, including chemical dependency, behavioral patterns, and growing up in a dysfunctional or alcoholic family system. The text examines the solutions to the struggle for intimacy.

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

  • Identify issues that contribute to unsuccessful and unhealthy relationships.
  • Describe the elements of a healthy relationship.
  • List the fears of Adult Children of Alcoholics that negatively influence intimacy.
  • Develop a recovery plan for acquiring and improving intimacy skills.
Double Bind: A Guide to Recovery and Relapse Prevention for the
Chemically Dependent Sexual Abuse Survivor
Author: Caryl Trotter, M.A.


Textbook Course
 5 CEHs
This course examines treatment and recovery issues for the chemically dependent survivor of sexual abuse. The text is based on the work developed by the author, Caryl Trotter,  and renowned treatment/recovery expert Terence T. Gorski, whose model for recovery provides clear guidelines on how to integrate the healing process of the sexual abuse survivor with the developmental stages of chemical dependency recovery.

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

  • Identify the different forms of sexual abuse.
  • Formulate an assessment of the chemically dependent survivor.
  • Recognize the stages of the recovery process.
  • Describe the barriers to recovery and the signs of relapse.
  • Develop a relapse prevention plan.
Working Ourselves To Death: The High Cost of Workaholism and the
Rewards of Recovery
Author: Diane Fassel, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 7 CEHs
This course explores one of the most overlooked and difficult to diagnose addictions prevalent in society; workaholism. The text for the course takes an in-depth look into work addiction by examining the characteristics of the disease on the individual, the family, and the organization, and the effects on the workaholic family.

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

  • Identify the characteristics of the workaholic.
  • Recognize the four types of work addict.
  • Describe the effects of workaholism on the workaholic and family.
  • Define the role society  and the organizations play in reinforcing work addict behavior.
  • Develop a recovery plan for the workaholic.
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Boundaries in Marriage
 Authors: Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend


Textbook Course
 12 CEHs
Teach your clients the significance of establishing healthy boundaries in their marriages. Christian counselors, Dr. Cloud and Dr. Townsend describe what boundaries are necessary to maintain a successful and happy marriage. The text also examines how to protect a marriage from what the authors consider "intruders."

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

  • Define the appropriate boundaries for couples in successful relationships.
  • Identify the importance of healthy boundaries in a marriage.
  • Describe the "Ten Laws of Boundaries to Marriage."
  • Recognize the symptoms of conflict in a marriage.
  • Develop methods of resolving marital conflicts.
  • List the differences between "boundary-loving" and "boundary-resistant" couples.

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
Author: Gavin de Becker


Textbook Course
 15 CEHs

  
Teach your clients to listen to their intuition and recognize the signs of danger. The author, Gavin de Becker, is considered the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior. This course will examine how to use the "gift of fear" as a survival signal predicting or identifying the presence of danger.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Recognize the warning signs of real vs. imagined danger.
  • Describe the behavior used by perpetrators to lure their victims.
  • Identify the "messengers of intuition" that can help to avoid being a victim of violence.
  • List the "elements of prediction" in evaluating potential danger.
  • Define the meaning and context of the intent to use violence.
How to Break Your Addiction to a Person
Author: Howard M. Halpern, Ph.D.


Text Book Course
 8 CEHs
This course takes an in-depth look into the workings of addictive relationships. The author offers insight into how people get there, what keeps them stuck, and why it is so difficult for them to get out. The text describes techniques for restoring self-confidence and self-esteem, how to end a "bad" relationship, and patterns to look for to prevent repeating the past.

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

  • Recognize the characteristics of an addictive relationship.
  • Define "Attachment Hunger" and how it contributes to being addicted to another person.
  • Determi ne, through analysis and evaluation, whether a client should end a relationship.
  • Describe methods for breaking an addictive relationship or marriage.
  • Develop a plan for breaking the relationship addiction.
How to Control Your Anger Before It Controls You
 Authors: Albert Ellis, Ph.D. and Raymond Chip Tafrate, Ph.D.		  


Textbook Course
 8 CEHs
Left unchecked, anger can cause lasting damage in peoples' lives, destroy relationships, disrupt the ability to think or concentrate, and even cause serious illness. Teach your clients how to identify their anger and adapt healthy methods for confronting and changing their behavior. The text is based on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) methods.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify anger behavior patterns.
  • List the steps to discovering rage-creating beliefs.
  • Describe the techniques for systematically understanding the roots and nature of anger.
  • Examine the consequences of rage and anger behavior.
  • Develop a program for confronting irrational thinking and anger beliefs.
Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman's Tragic Quest for Thinness
 Author: Mary Pipher, Ph.D.


Textbook Course
 6 CEHs
This course provides insight into women's eating disorders, body image issues, dieting, and cultural pressure over their weight. The text specifically examines bulimia, anorexia, and obesity.

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

  • Identify the symptoms of bulimia and anorexia.
  • Recognize the role advertising plays in eating disorders.
  • Identify the factors that contribute to unhealthy eating behaviors and low self-image.
  • Describe methods of guidance and support for women and children who misuse food.
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression In Girls
 Author: Rachel Simmons


Textbook Course
 14 CEHs
This course examines a hidden culture of girls' aggression in our schools. The text looks at how girls cope with jealousy, anger, conflict, and competition, with dirty looks, taunting notes, rumor spreading, exclusion from social groups, and ganging up on close friends. The author defines female bullying and emotional abuse among adolescent girls and describes how the schools are responding. Participants will be provided with the knowledge and tools for assessing the impact of aggression on adolescent girls and their families.
Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify the three subcategories of aggressive behavior: relational, indirect and social aggression.
  • Recognize the signs of bullying and social aggression in adolescent girls.
  • Examine the techniques girls use to form and maintain relationships.
  • List how girls use relationships to position themselves within the group social hierarchy.
  • Identify the methods girls use to become popular and maintain their popularity.
  • Define the inner workings of cliques and their function in the school setting.

Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (And
 Parents Sane)
 Author: Gavin de Becker


Textbook Course
 14 CEHs
Whether your client is a parent or a teenager, this course provides valuable information for teaching clients how to protect themselves from sexual predators and violent offenders. Gavin de Becker is considered a leading expert on predicting violent behavior. In his book, Protecting the Gift he offers an insight into the behavior and strategies of sexual predators and violent offenders. His primary focus is identifying and providing practical steps to ensure our children's safety through effective screening and evaluation methods.

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

  • Recognize the warning signs that will help to detect sexual abuse.
  • List the "Test of Twelve" valuable safety skills that children need when left alone in public.
  • Describe methods to keep teenagers from unsafe situations with peers and adults.
  • Identify the "Signals of Denial" that can block valuable information and hinder the decision-making process.
  • Recognize the "Survival Signals" as a defense against the behaviors of sexual predators.
Angry Men, Passive Men: Understanding the Roots of Men's Anger and
 How to Move Beyond It
Authors: Marvin Allen with Jo Robinson


Textbook Course
 11 CEHs
This course explores the core issues regarding men's emotional experiences and identifies anger behavior patterns. It also examines why men think and act the way they do, and how the masculine codes of behavior shapes the traditional roles of men. The text draws on the life stories of men and the author's personal experiences.

Course objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
  • Identify angry and passive behavior patterns.
  • Recognize the characteristics of gender conditioning.
  • List the effects of living in the "Man Box".
  • Formulate a plan for improving communication.
  • Describe healthy methods for expressing emotions.
  • Identify anger-release techniques.

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