Continuing Education
As a licensed mental health therapist, certified or licensed addictions counselor, licensed social worker or substance use disorder therapist, you will need a certain number of continuing education hours each year (CME, CEU, CE) and you will want to keep your education and training up to date with the most cutting-edge training available. We have you covered. We know that you need a minimum of 40 hours per year to keep your license or certification valid. Here are some top choice trainings that we can provide for you.
Please note these are trainings and not certifications, you will receive a certificate of completion after you complete the training with the appropriate number of continuing education hours, CEU, CE, or CME’s on the certificate. Each hour translates to 1 CEU or CME. You can purchase these independently or you can buy them in a bundle of 40 hours for $249.00
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NAADAC Provider Number #230248
ADACBGA CE Provider Number: 2021-10-002
Texas Certification Board – Provider Number: 2082-21
CACCF Certification Board (Canadian Board)
Continuing Education Program – Individual Courses
Purchase the program one course at a time or buy the Bundle for $249for ALL of the classes.
Ethics and Responsibilities Training – 6 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Understand and spot fraud-related conduct in the workplace.
- Understand boundaries, confidentiality, and professional standards and how to apply them
- Understand the traits of sexual misconduct, unlawful conduct, safety and welfare of your client, unqualified practice, and cooperation during any investigations.
- Understand and demonstrate proper report writing, case management, and record-keeping.
- Understand and demonstrate confidentiality, working in different states and Telehealth.
Harm Reduction Training – 6 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the big 3 M.A.T Programming (Medically Assisted Therapies)
- Understand how clean needle exchange programs work
- Understand what Naloxone, Suboxone, Methadone are and how they work in the body
- Learn 3 ways to find Safe Injection Sites
- Understand Opioid Replacement Treatment (ORT)
- Understand Heroin Maintenance programs
- Understand 2 Alcohol Harm Reduction Techniques
- Understand and apply Ethics of Harm Reduction
- Understand 5 Treatment Modalities for Harm Reduction
- Understand 3 ways Cannabis can assist in MAT
- Understand how Sugar, Food, and Nutrition play a role in addiction
- Understand how Porn and Sex Addiction are process addictions
- Understand what safer sex programs are and how to access them
- Understand 3 problems of sex work and HIV
- Understand what Decriminalization of Drugs means and demonstrate 2 ways to apply it.
Methamphetamine Training – 4 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Overview of Methamphetamines
- Understand and apply 3 Prevention Techniques
- Understand Slang terms and use
- Understand Current medical uses and trends
- Understand the differences between physical and mental addiction
- Understand 3 Long term use and complications
- Apply 5 Helpful tips for family
- Understand 2 ways meth affects the brain
- Understand Withdrawal Symptoms and 3 ways to combat them.
- Understand health and neurotransmitters, including Serotonin and dopamine uptake receptors
Amphetamine Training – 4 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Overview of Amphetamines
- Understand and apply 3 Prevention Techniques
- Understand Slang terms and use
- Understand Current medical uses and trends
- Understand the differences between doctor prescribed and street drugs
- Understand the differences between meth and amphetamines
- Understand 3 Long term use and complications
- Apply 5 Helpful tips for family
- Understand 2 ways drugs like diet pills, speed affects the brain
- Understand Withdrawal Symptoms and 3 ways to combat them.
- Understand health and neurotransmitters, including Serotonin and dopamine uptake receptors
Opiate Use Disorder Training – 6 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the difference between Opiates vs. Opioids
- Learn and apply 3 Prevention Techniques
- Understand and apply how Narcan works
- Understand how opiates and opioids work in the body
- Understand 5 opiate side effects and signs of addiction
- Learn the difference between addiction versus dependence
- Apply 3 Best practices
- Understand Acute Withdrawal Symptoms
- Learn 3 Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS)
- Understand 3 Medication Management Techniques
- Understand the Medically Assisted Treatments (MAT)Suboxone, Methadone, Vivitrol, and more
- Learn how Brain health and neurotransmitters play a role
- Understand how Pregnancy and opiates can be addressed safely
- Learn 5 ways of Accessing Community Supports
- Understand HIV issues and implications
Adverse Childhood Experience and Neonatal Alcohol Syndrome (ACE and NAS) Training – 6 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what Adverse Childhood Experiences are
- Understand how ACE affects adult children emotionally versus physically
- Understand and explain Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- Understand 3 ways both impact the brain and development
- Understand 3 ways ACE leads to risky behaviors: drug use, alcohol use, Sexual deviation, and criminal behaviors
- How Stress and toxicity play a role in life development and affect the body and brain
- Recited 3 coping skills that are used to deal with ACE
- Understand emotional, behavioral, and cognitive problems that arise out of ACE and NAS
- Understanding the Trauma-Informed approach
Relapse Prevention Training – 6 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Understand 5 Diagrams of addiction/recovery and the stages of relapse
- Learn and recite 3 signs and symptoms of relapse
- Understand 5 Reasons why people think they relapse
- Understand and apply how to avoid relapse
- Create an action plan for relapse prevention
- Learn 5 questions to prevent relapse
- Understand 3 treatment models of recovery
- Recognize 5 warning signs of a relapse
- Create and implement an action plan for a relapse prevention strategy
- Understand a daily recovery plan
- Understand the terms daily inventory, balance, and justification and how to handle them with clients.
Case Management Training – 6 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze and understand 3 ways to assess for proper aftercare placement
- Understand how to access Mental Health Community Services
- Understand how to access Physical Health Services in the Community
- Identify 3 ways of handling Court Documents and Court Requirements
- Demonstrate 3 ways of Dealing with Housing and Sober Living facilities
- Understand ways to explore employment with a client
- Understand Community Involvement and Planning
- Understand how to create a and smooth continuum of care
- Understand how to create an implementation of proper case management services and connections to those services
- Understand 3 ways to generate referrals and how to apply maintenance of those referrals
- Understand how to generate income as a Case Manager
- Understand insurance billables and cash pay clients
- Implementation of meetings and plugging into ‘the program’
Working with Clients 5 hours (hands-on training).
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the 4 parts of a successful Motivational Interview and implement them with clients
- Understand how auditory/visual and tactile styles of learning differ in clients
- Understand 4 basic Neurolinguistics Programming techniques (NLP)
- Identify 3 ways of connecting with clients
- Demonstrate 3 uses of mirroring body language to get a client to open up in sessions or groups
- Understand and demonstrate the difference between active and passive listening skills
- Understand how to share key details and when not to overshare key details of your personal life
- Demonstrate knowledge of 5 activities for clients to go deeper in groups and sessions
- Demonstrate 5 new didactic group activities