Section 2: Content Area C2 - Counseling Procedures (14 CE Hours)
- 1 Section
- 11 Lessons
- 1 Quiz
Course Content
- Course Overview & Introduction
- Module 1: Defining the SUD Counseling Profession and the Interdisciplinary Spectrum
- Module 2: The Written Record: Documentation of Clinical Services and Behavioral Writing
- Module 3: The Complex Intersection: Co-Occurring Disorders - Impact, Referrals, and Preventing Harm
- Module 4: Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries.
- Module 5: The Four Pillars of Clinical Intervention: Trauma-Informed Care, CBT, MI, and the Stages of Change
- Module 6: Harm Reduction Approaches
- Module 7: Safeguarding the Alliance: Identifying and Preventing Damaging Experiences in the Counseling Relationship
- Module 8: Models of Addiction Theory & Application
- Module 9: Core Functions of SUD Counseling: Individual and Family Modalities
- References
- Post Test
This 14-hour continuing education course, Content Area C2: Counseling Procedures and Strategies as Applied to Those with Substance Use Disorders, prepares Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant (CDCA) candidates and addiction professionals to translate theoretical knowledge into ethical clinical practice. Practitioners master scope-of-practice boundaries across the interdisciplinary team, behavioral clinical documentation, Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, trauma-informed care, harm reduction, professional boundaries, and the core individual and family counseling functions of SUD treatment. Upon successful completion of this course, earned hours are automatically reported to CE Broker.
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