(18 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course will provide participants with an understanding of alcohol and other drugs of abuse, their bio-psycho-social  effects, mechanisms of addiction, and how these relate to various assessment, intervention, and treatment approaches.

(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course covers an overview of tobacco use, understanding of the etiology & progression of dependence, & treatment for nicotine dependence.

(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) This course covers knowledge and skills to effectively report child abuse or maltreatment to the NYS child Abuse & Maltreatment Register.

Must be taken online at http://www.nysmandatedreporter.org/TrainingCourses.aspx

(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course will provide an overview of the federal and state laws that govern drug and alcohol treatment, and includes the rationale and history of confidentiality laws,  the requirements and provisions of 42 CFR, Part 2, HIPAA and Jonathan’s Law, the need for and  appropriately constructed consent forms, exceptions to confidentiality rules, confidentiality on HIV/AIDS, the need to seek out supervision regarding confidentiality and legal issues and reporting violations of confidentiality laws.  Several vignettes regarding confidentiality and legal issues will be examined by the class.

(6 CASAC Hours in Section 4 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course will provide an overview of the strategies a professional counselor can use to form an effective therapeutic alliance with a client.  The nature and benefits of the therapeutic alliance, appropriate boundaries in the therapeutic relationship, transference and counter-transference, how to handle boundary issues, self-disclosure in counseling, personal recovery and counseling, the need for and appropriate use of clinical supervision, and cultural competence and the therapeutic alliance are included.

(6 CASAC Hours in Section 4 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course provides an overview of stress and wellness, common threats to wellness, and effective means of self-care. The definition and physiology of  stress, symptoms of  compassion fatigue, staff burnout, and vicarious trauma, self-care strategies, including the use of agency resources, such as clinical supervision and EAP’s, and counselor impairment and re-entry to the workplace are reviewed. Participants develop a personal self-care plan in a one-hour homework assignment for this course.

(6 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – In this course, several major modalities for the treatment of substance use disorders, including medication assisted treatment, the Minnesota Model, the therapeutic community, and harm reduction will be detailed and contrasted.

(6 CASAC Hours in Section 4 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course acquaints participants with a definition of professional ethics and boundaries, and enable them to use appropriate decision-making skills when faced with ethical dilemmas.  The following topics are included: the definition of ethics, universally accepted ethical values, professional codes of conduct/ethics, policies that exist in human service organizations related to ethical conduct, the parameters of professional boundaries and how to maintain them, including the use of clinical supervision, and a decision-making model for making ethical decisions when faced with ethically-challenging situations.

*For completion of 15 hours in Ethics for Addiction Professionals you must attend Practica 5 & 6 in module 9 (See course listing for practica schedule) along with an additional lecture in Confidentiality & Legal Issues.

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(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) –  Participants will learn the DSM5 diagnostic criteria, the ICD codes, and how to use the NYS OASAS LOCADATR tool and the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria to make a level of care determination. 

(6 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course will review the use and role of mutual self help groups in the recovery from substance use disorders, including AA and other 12-step groups, and SMART recovery. 

(6 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – The history of human drug taking, addiction, and treatment and recovery movements are examined in this course. Forms of drugs, routes of administration and drug responses, progression of drug use, dependency and recovery are also explored. 

(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – What causes addiction and how is it best treated? This course reviews the major prevailing models for understanding drug addiction which include biological, genetic, cultural, self-medication, social, educational, family systems, spiritual, social learning, biopsychosocial and public health, and their corresponding intervention approaches. 

(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – Social and legal designations of psychoactive drugs, prohibition and anti-prohibition movements, and the political forces that influence drug taking and its consequences  are examined in this course. William White’s model is used to understand the cultures of addiction and recovery.

(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course teaches participants about effective prevention strategies for patients, families, and communities. Goals and objectives of prevention education, strategies for effective prevention education, types of prevention programs, the continuum of prevention approaches, principles of effective prevention programs, risk and protective factors, resiliency and the fostering of resiliency, SAMHSA’s Prevention Framework, and model programs in prevention are included. 

(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – This course reviews the continuum of services in the drug and alcohol field ranging from prevention, early intervention, outpatient, through residential and inpatient care. The criteria for each level of care are explained. Participants will also understand risk and protective factors for addiction and increasing resiliency as prevention strategy. 

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(3 CASAC Hours in Section 1 / SW & LMHC Hours) – In this course,  participants will learn about the array of toxicology screening methods, their strengths, limitations & legal implications, reporting language, reports, and means of accurate administration and proper use.