Fee: Only $200. Registration provides unlimited access.
To purchase this online training, please visit: https://cbtonlinetraining.com/course/substance-abuse-counselor-certification/
Prerequisite: Bachelors degree in a mental health field
This Home Study Course Includes:
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: The Basics of Helping People to Get Better — Home Study Program
“Treating Addiction: A CBT Approach” — Webinar Recording
Overcome Your Addiction
Dr. Aldo Pucci’s Book (online version), “Feel the Way You Want to Feel … No Matter What!”
Certification Examination
What You Will Learn
This course teaches trainees:
How to assess and help to correct underlying physical problems that drive people to drink / drug
How to identify the causes of cravings and correct those cravings
How to practice from a Cognitive Model of Substance Abuse Motivation
How to practice form a Cognitive Model of Substance Abuse Behavior
How to recognize the Five Categories of Substance Abuse Motivation
How to overcome the abusing identity
How to motivate clients to give up their self-abusing behaviors
How to assess the client’s motivation for using substances, including hidden motivation
How to assess the client’s actual goals
How to REALLY engage the client with his or her goals
How to help the client remain focused on those goals
What to do when they don’t buy AA
How to work with, and without, the disease model
How to prevent the abstinence violation effect (AVE)
How to overcome myths concerning willpower
Excellent behavioral techniques to prevent substance use
How to ensure that the client IS better, rather than just ACTING better
How to correct thoughts that lead people to return to substance using behavior
How to prevent relapse
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE BACKGROUND AND PHILOSOPHY OF CBT
The theoretical and philosophical basis of CBT and how to be guided by it Learning CBT theory and how to apply it to many different therapeutic situations Learn the myths and misconceptions of CBT to better address concerns with your clients and colleagues
THE SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO CBT: HOW TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE IN THE THERAPY PROCESS AT ANY GIVEN POINT
Not all approaches to CBT are systematic
Systematic approach to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Know where you are in the therapeutic process at any given point
GOAL SETTING THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL WAY
Developing goals for therapy, life goals and daily living goals
How to motivate the client to develop goals and to achieve them
THE ABC‘S OF EMOTIONS: HOW TO TEACH CLIENTS WHAT CAUSES THEIR FEELINGS AND BEHAVIOR
Understanding of the Emotional ABC’s is essential to emotional and behavioral improvement
Learn how to present the ABC’s of emotions to their clients in a manner that is understandable
Uncover “automatic thoughts” that make it appear as though people, situations and things cause feelings and behaviors
Practice the ABC’s during the seminar
THE RATIONAL QUESTIONS: HOW TO HELP CLIENTS DETERMINE FOR THEMSELVES WHETHER OR NOT THEIR THOUGHTS ARE RATIONAL
Learn how to teach clients the three rational questions to help clients determine whether or not their thinking and behavior is rational and healthy
Practice the rational questions during the seminar
COMMON MENTAL MISTAKES: HOW PEOPLE GO WRONG IN THEIR THINKING, AND HOW TO HELP THEM CORRECT THOSE MISTAKES
Learn how to recognize errors in clients’ thinking
Learn how to teach clients to recognize for themselves errors in their own thinking
Help clients correct those mistakes and develop new, rational replacement thoughts
HELPING PEOPLE PRACTICE THEIR NEW THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND BEHAVIORS
Learn excellent techniques that help clients practice their new, rational thoughts and behaviors
HOW TO END THERAPY, ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER LONG-TERM RESULTS
Learn, from a CBT perspective, how to recognize when a client is ready for therapy termination
Learn how to foster long-term results
THE ISSUE OF HOMEWORK
Discover homework assignments that can provide clients with an ongoing therapeutic focus
To purchase this online training, please visit: https://cbtonlinetraining.com/course/substance-abuse-counselor-certification/
