Selected Models for Counseling

This offering is a core curriculum offering for individuals wishing to complete addictions certification education requirements. The content in the offering includes the National Institute on Drug Abuse Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A research-based guide and three therapy manuals entitled:  A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction; A Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction and An Individual Drug Counseling Approach to Treat Cocaine Addiction: The Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study Model.  All the models focus on treatment of cocaine addiction; however, we believe the information is generalizable to all substance dependency disorders.  The first model describes a cognitive-behavioral approach.  The second integrates a voucher incentives feature, which may help involve reluctant, more chronic users to remain in treatment long enough to start an abstinence-based lifestyle.  The third represents an individual counseling approach with a behavioral focus that is a more traditional addictions intervention with a 12-step emphasis.  This offering is part of a multi-part series on counseling models for addictions treatment.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to discuss the principles of drug addiction treatment

2. Participants will be able to describe functional analysis in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

3. Participants will be able to describe skills training in CBT

4. Participants will be able to identify the eight topics used for CBT skills training

5. Participants will be able to identify eight behavioral techniques used in the Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers (CRV) Model

6. Participants will be able to identify protocol for CRV sessions

7. Participants will be able to describe how the voucher system works in the CRV model

8. Participants will be able to list the seven areas of life functioning used for problem lists

9. Participants will be able to describe the three ways of handling triggers

10. Participants will be able to discuss the two elements of the IDC approach

11. Participants will be able to contrast IDC from other therapy models

12. Participants will be able to identify IDC stages and issues addressed in each stage

Total CE Credits:  12.0

Training Agenda:

Hour One-Two: The Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment

Hour Three -Six: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction

Hour Seven-Nine: A Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction

Hour Ten -Twelve:  An Individual Drug Counseling Approach to Treat Cocaine Addiction

Method: Study Guide, posttest and evaluation. Q&A by phone or Email.