Continuing Education At Home
Professional Counselor - MFT - NBCC
Strategies for Working with Clients with Co-Occurring Disorders
Credits
3 NBCC CE credit hours training
Cost
$18.00
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
Maintaining a therapeutic alliance with clients who have co-occurring disorders (COD) is important--and difficult. The first section of this course reviews approaches for addressing these challenges. The second part of this course describes specific techniques effective in counseling clients with COD. One is the use of motivational enhancement consistent with the client\'s specific stage of recovery.
The purpose of this course is to describe for the addiction counselor and other practitioners how these guidelines and techniques, many of which are useful in the treatment of substance abuse or as general treatment principles, can be modified specifically and applied to people with COD.
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
TRAINING
Course Description
Maintaining a therapeutic alliance with clients who have co-occurring disorders (COD) is important--and difficult. The first section of this course reviews approaches for addressing these challenges. The second part of this course describes specific techniques effective in counseling clients with COD. One is the use of motivational enhancement consistent with the client\'s specific stage of recovery.
The purpose of this course is to describe for the addiction counselor and other practitioners how these guidelines and techniques, many of which are useful in the treatment of substance abuse or as general treatment principles, can be modified specifically and applied to people with COD.
