Along with Principles of Addiction Treatment and Addiction Counseling Skills, Case Conceptualization and Documentation, is considered to be part of the “Core Curriculum” and basic to the foundational training of an addiction counselor. This training is designed to provide the counselor with an understanding of the clinical record and the continuum of client care that the record documents and tracks. The training presents screening, basic assessment and evaluation, Substance Use Disorder diagnostic criteria, ASAM patient placement criteria, introduction to treatment planning, progress note completion, documentation requirements and basic referral and discharge planning. It emphasizes the confidentiality of the client record and includes releases of information, mandatory disclosure and informed consent, among
others.
Group therapy is a powerful tool in delivering addiction treatment
services, as individuals working on or in recovery provide support to
one another. The training will assist the aspiring addiction counselor
to understand models of effective group process, the use of group
therapy, and be able to demonstrate the skills necessary to facilitate a
group.
- Teacher: Gary Wareham
Trauma Informed Care is a treatment framework that involves
understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types
of traumas. The clinical shift is from “what’s wrong with you” to “what
happened to you.” This training will introduce the counselor to the
concept of trauma-informed care and define ways in which a traditional
treatment setting can be modified to increase an individual’s sense of
safety within this setting. Participants will learn how to incorporate
trauma-informed practices into substance use disorder treatment with
diverse populations, such as military veterans, gender specific, people
with co-occurring disorders, persons involved in the criminal justice
system, etc. Although trauma treatment approaches will be considered,
this training will not teach how to do trauma specific treatment.
- Teacher: Marjorie Lewis