Addiction & Mental Illness - Part 1

15 Hours
Areas: 10 hours Addiction / 5 hours Counseling
Foundations: 5 hours Understanding Addiction (FUA) / 5 hrs Application to Practice (FAP)
Practice: 5 hours Clinical Evaluation (PCV)

This course serves as Part 1 of a two-part study on Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser and addresses the treatment of clients who have both chemical dependency and mental health issues. Counselors must recognize and address both conditions or the risk of relapse remains high. Learn the most significant predictor of treatment success, how to provide an empathic and continuous treatment relationship, how to distinguish between the criteria of substance abuse vs. substance dependency, and more.

Textbook: Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser 2nd Ed., Evans and Sullivan

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