Professional Counselor - MFT - NBCC
Addiction Recovery
Target audience and instructional level of this course:
foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
TRAINING
Course Description
"Recovery" means: to bring back to a normal position or condition; to find or identify again; to save from loss and restore to usefulness. People become dependent on substance and alcohol for many different reasons. Their stories are all different, however, the emotional and physical effects are similar. The goals in treatment are to identify the source of the deeper issues and work through them to enable recovery.
This training will address the following stages of substance/alcohol usage: use, misuse, abuse, dependence and addiction. Additionally, interventions, counseling approaches and steps to recovery will be addressed.
After completing this training you will be able to:
- Identify the key stages: from drinking and transition to early and ongoing recovery.
- Outline the therapeutic tasks and pitfalls that characterize each stage.
- Implement interventions with individual family members, as well as the system as a whole, helping to restructure roles, interactions and beliefs that have been shaped by addiction.
- Describe importance of facilitating the family's use of outside sources of support.
- Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.
Rachel Werner, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist who has been in the mental health field for the last 25 years. Rachel started as a trainer in foster care and has focused on continuing education for the past 15 years. She has developed and lead psychoeducational programs on addictions, parenting, ethics, mood disorders, conflict resolution and many other mental health topics.
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Addiction in the U.S.
- Current statistics show more than 50 million addicts
- An estimated 8-10% of the US population are sex addicts
- 17 million people are heavy drinkers
- 8 million people need treatment for illicit drug use
- 6 million people have serious gambling problems
- About 10 million people have eating disorders
- 70% of all violent crime, 90% of all poverty crime, 50% of homicides, 50% of traffic fatalities, 50% of fires and 33% of all traffic accidents are directly related to people abusing drugs & alcohol
- Many suicides are addiction related
- In 2004, drug addiction alone had an economic/societal cost of about 200 billion dollars
Research of addicts active in their recovery shows:
- Crime related costs drop by $8,600 per recovering addict
- Absenteeism from work decreases by 92%
- Tardiness to work decreases by 89%
- Problems with job supervisors decrease by 56%
- Mental Healthcare costs decrease
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