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2-Day: Certified Addictions-Informed Mental Health Professional: A Trauma-Focused Certification Course

For clinicians working with clients who also abuse substances or suffer from process addictions, treatment can be really hard. If you are like many clinicians, you don’t feel able or willing to work with addictions.

Yet it doesn’t need to be. And it shouldn’t keep you from engaging the client in their overall healing.

Studies now show the connection and interplay of addiction and trauma – plus anxiety, mood disorders, and insomnia.

You can evoke change in all your clients to promote healthier coping and self-soothing skills besides substance use or process addictions.

But first, you need to master the current evidence-based practices from the worlds of both Addictions treatment and Trauma/PTSD interventions.

This Certified Addictions-Informed Mental Health Professional Training Course 2-day recording will transform your older practices when treating clients who use/abuse…clearing the path to true healing. Taught by an international trainer, clinician, AND recovery specialist Eric Gentry, PhD., you’ll receive all the following skills:

  • Skills for assessing and diagnosing trauma/posttraumatic stress and addiction/substance abuse and dependence.
  • Simplified treatment planning, monitoring, and measurement instruments.
  • Skills for developing, enhancing and maintaining therapeutic relationships—the most potent factor for positive outcomes with this challenging population.
  • A fresh perspective and utilization of the Polyvagal Theory (Porges) to both understand and treat both trauma and addiction simultaneously.
  • Cutting-edge skills for developing and maintaining safety and stability with addicted survivors of trauma using cognitive, behavioral, somatic and relational approaches.
  • Reframing “disease of addiction” as involuntary and unconscious posttraumatic patterns of self-defense where the survivor is chronically perceiving threat in contexts where there is little or no danger.

Best of all, this training meets the educational requirements when applying to become a Certified Addictions-Informed Professional (CAIMHP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of treating addictions in clients. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/caimhp for to get started!

*We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Summarize the causes of substance use disorders & factors that reinforce drug use as related to case conceptualization.
  2. Explain the basic neurobiology of addictive chemicals and its treatment implications.
  3. Identify commonly misused drugs, including current “street names” of these substances, as related to assessment and treatment planning.
  4. Describe the signs and symptoms of substance intoxication and distinguish withdrawal syndromes for each drug class as related to case conceptualization.
  5. Perform a clinical assessment to distinguish substance use disorders from other mental health disorders and inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
  6. Analyze the various levels of substance use treatment, including medication-assisted therapies, to inform clinical treatment interventions.
  7. Describe the process of detoxification and its treatment implications.
  8. Utilize clinical strategies, such as motivational interviewing, to improve client engagement and foster behavioral change.
  9. Modify clinical interventions for use with clients in special populations, such as adolescents or pregnant women.
  10. Utilize clinical strategies to engage the client’s family in treatment to improve treatment outcomes.
  11. Demonstrate strategies used to improve the efficacy of group therapy, such as strategies for addressing disruptive members and building group cohesion.
  12. Describe ethical and legal issues related to substance use and substance use treatment, including circumstances when you should disclose client records.

Outline

Foundational Issues in Addictions-Informed Psychotherapy

  • Substance Abuse vs. dependency vs. addiction
  • Biopsychosocial issues
  • Neurobiology of addiction
  • Attachment issues
  • Causes of traumatic responses
  • Ethical & legal issues
Chemical Dependency Facts You Need to Know
  • Classes of commonly abused drugs
  • Street names of common drugs
  • Signs & symptoms of use & withdrawal
Behavioral/Process Addictions
  • Food
  • Compulsive sexual behaviors
  • Electronic addictions
  • Gambling
  • Compulsions

Trauma Addiction: Assessment of Comorbid Trauma & Addiction

  • What to ask—and how to ask it
  • What to look for: Pink flags & red flags
  • Recognize other co-occurring disorders
  • Evidence-based assessment scales

Levels of Care & Treatment Selection

  • Detoxification
  • Levels of treatment
  • Medication-assisted treatment
  • 12-step groups & alternatives
  • Harm reduction strategies & when to use them

Three-Stage Behavioral Treatment Model for Co-Occurring Traumatic Stress and Addiction

Stage I: Build the Therapeutic Relationship & Boost Client Engagement

  • Feedback Informed Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Co-regulation between you & your client

Stage II: Skills Development & Cognitive Restructuring Interventions

  • Relational Skills/Social Engagement System
    • Build & identify a support network
    • Access & utilize support
    • Service to others as therapeutic
  • Regulation/Relaxation Skills
    • Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR)
    • Trauma releasing exercises (TRE)
    • Tapping
    • Bilateral stimulation
    • Neurofeedback
    • Mindfulness for self-regulation
    • Self-soothing for intense emotions
  • Grounding Skills to Interrupt Dissociation
    • Sensory grounding
    • Mindful movement
    • Seated yoga
  • Containment Skills: Put away Intrusive Thoughts
    • Envelope method
    • Vault
    • Relational containment
  • Cognitive restructuring interventions
  • Foster post-traumatic growth & build resilience
  • Complementary & alternative treatments

Stage III: Integration & Desensitization

  • Imaginal Exposure Therapy
  • EMDR
  • Narrative-Driven Exposure Treatment
    • Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
    • PE (prolonged exposure)
    • Trauma-focused CBT
  • Somatic-Based Treatments
    • Somatic Experiencing
    • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
    • Trauma-Focused Yoga
  • In-vivo Exposure
    • Direct Therapeutic Exposure (DTE)
    • Forward Facing Trauma Therapy (FFTT)

Interventions for Special Populations

  • Children & adolescents
  • LGBTQ clients
  • Incarcerated clients
  • Clients in court-ordered drug treatment​

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Case Managers
  • Physician Assistants
  • Physicians
  • Psychiatrists
  • Paramedics
  • Other First Responders
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Police Officers
  • Clergy

Copyright : 04/27/2020

Trauma-Informed Motivational Interviewing: A Foundational Approach to Engage and Treat Complex Clients

Whether you’re in the middle of deep emotional processing or having your first session…

Every step of your care should be trauma-informed.

However, many of us have learned certain approaches, such as Motivational Interviewing, without learning how to integrate trauma-informed care.

Here’s your opportunity to learn the skills to integrate the sensitivity of trauma-informed care with the life-changing power of Motivational Interviewing.

Join international trainers Ali Hall and Kristin Dempsey for a cutting-edge, trauma-informed motivational interviewing course that will enhance your therapy, at any level. In this unique training, you’ll learn techniques to:

  • Use a client-driven approach, empowering clients to do their own trauma processing
  • Support client’s sense of responsibility so they can start taking action in their life
  • Expand your perspective and assessment beyond just looking at symptoms
  • Apply concepts from research on neuroscience and nervous system arousal to help clients regulate

Transform your client’s lives by helping them put their trauma to rest and finding a path forward!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Utilize the four components of the Spirit of MI to engage individuals in conversations about change.
  2. Theorize each of the four process stages of motivational interviewing and state how each contributes to building motivation to change.
  3. Practice dialogues that focus on change talk, validation and other motivational strategies.
  4. Evaluate five tenets trauma-informed care to effectively use motivational interviewing with clients displaying symptoms of trauma.
  5. Practice eight evidence-based micro skills and attitudes common to motivational interviewing that promote change across therapeutic modalities.
  6. Demonstrate how each of the five motivational interviewing microskills can be used to address client trauma.
  7. Create therapeutic responses addressing trauma using the five motivational interviewing microskills.
  8. Formulate MI interventions that are sensitive to common co-occurring disorders including anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder.
  9. Apply MI strategies to assess for suicide and move clients toward stability.
  10. Analyze role-play demonstration to enhance ability to apply MI strategies with challenging client problems.

Outline

Module One: Motivational Interviewing Foundations

  • Ingredients
    • Four Processes
    • Microskills (common therapeutic factors) 
    • Exchanging Information
    • Language Types
    • Focus on change target
    • Elicitation and elaboration of change talk
  • The Spirit of MI
    • Using PACE
    • How to create partnership
    • What “acceptance” sounds like
    • How to use “compassionate detachment”
    • OARS, DARN CAT & change talk
  • Exercises & Techniques for Action
    • Sample questions to elicit & strengthen motivation
    • Personal reflection
    • Common responses to MI    
    • Counter client ambivalence 
    • How to use a strengths-based lens
Module Two: Trauma-Informed Motivational Interviewing
  • Why use a Trauma-Informed Approach?
    • The link between MI & Trauma care
    • What diagnosis misses
    • Bring the past into the present
    • Trauma basics – types, examples, ACES
    • What does a symptom really mean?
    • PTSD & the brain
  • Trauma-Informed MI: How it Works
    • A “person-driven” approach
    • Build client autonomy and collaboration with client
    • The window of tolerance & optimal arousal for change
    • Reframe questions to avoid pathologizing client experience
    • Components of a trauma-informed care system
  • Trauma-Informed MI Skills in Action
    • Righting Reflex and Roadblocks to Listening
    • Crosswalk between TI approach and MI
    • Spot clients “out of control” feelings
    • Building a safe environment 
    • Create self-advocacy & empowerment
    • Cultivate Post-traumatic growth
Module 3: Engaging/Responding
  • Engage Your Trauma Clients More
    • Honor the client’s trauma reality
    • Create a trauma-narrative with open-ended questions
    • Use affirmations strengthen abilities & internal resources
    • Reduce trauma-induced confusion & overwhelm
    • Give clients choice & access to their own ideas for change – with client permission
  • MI Techniques: Mirco Skills, Big Changes
    • Provide-Elicit-Provide
    • The communication process
    • The reflective listening process
    • Open-ended questions with traumatized clients
    • Sharing Information & Advising - What’s your role in legal advice?
Module 4: Co-Occurring Disorders & Crisis Response
  • The Nature of Co-Occurring Disorders 
    • The expectation, not the exception
    • When it’s complex, keep it simple
    • 12 Steps to assessment
    • 10 Guidelines for developing a therapeutic alliance with COD folks
    • What you can do to reduce treatment barriers
    • Discord and repair conversations
    • Specific skills for Depression, Anxiety, Suicidal Ideation
    • Practice dialogues
  • De-escalating Suicidal Clients with MI
    • Moving from Focusing to Engaging
    • Evoking strategies – You are Medicine
    • Putting change talk into Safety Planning
    • SHORES – Protective factors
    • Examples of MI used in crisis situations: Self-harming adolescents and individual impacted by natural disasters
Module 5: Working with Mandated Clients
  • The role for MI
  • Create a shared agenda
  • Support autonomy and reduce discord
  • The four processes of MI applied
  • Effective responses with mandated clients
  • Demonstration: Getting on the same team & repairing relationship

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals
  • Other Rehab Professionals
  • Other healthcare professionals

Copyright : 08/03/2022

MI for Group Therapy

It’s easy for a therapist to feel overpowered in a group therapy.

Clients may redirect conversation away from the target or they might not talk at all…

And sometimes, you even have clients who get into arguments with one another.

Luckily for you, motivational interviewing skills can be a highly-effective for group therapy.

Join Ali Hall and Kristin Dempsey for a training that takes simple motivational interviewing skills and gives you training to use them in group settings. Gain motivational interviewing skills that will help you keep groups on topic, productive, collaborative, cohesive and change generating.

You’ll learn:

  • How to keep conversation healthy, even with conflicting ideas
  • How to integrate the principles on MI into each stage of group development
  • Basic to advanced conversation shaping to keep clients focused & on topic

Empower yourself to lead great therapy groups!

Never miss a beat, even with the most challenging groups!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Appraise three ways the group therapeutic factors connect to the “spirit” of MI.
  2. Theorize how the process of MI corresponds to Tuckman’s stages of group development.

Outline

Integrating MI Processes into Group Therapy

  • Facilitating in an MI style
  • Therapeutic group fractors
  • What is “motivational content”?
  • Four foundational processes of MI in groups
  • Closed and open group considerations
  • Create group guidelines
  • Preventing unhelpful topic shifting
Concrete Skills for MI Groups
  • Basic to advanced conversation shaping
  • Blending MI with Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development
  • Planning, evoking, focusing, engaging
  • Invitations vs. expectations
  • Elicit group discussion & pair work

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Health Coaches
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Other behavioral health professionals
  • Other Healthcare Professionals
  • Other Rehab Professionals

Copyright : 09/22/2022

MI with CBT & DBT

Dry therapy doesn’t engage clients.

Especially when you’re working with clients that present with multiple problems at once…

You need to meet them where they’re at and have training skills and techniques to move them forward.

Give your therapy the boost it needs – gain skills to integrate CBT and DBT into the powerful approach of Motivational Interviewing.

Join Kristin Dempsey and Ali Hall and learn concrete skills you can use tomorrow in session to get more client engagement, less resistance, greater therapy compliancy and enhanced outcomes. You’ll learn how to…

  • Know when to use CBT or MI or both
  • Use DBT as a guiding style for therapy
  • Apply 8 clinical skills for change across all modalities
  • Engage clients in conversation that instills hope for change

Plus, you’ll get real-world case studies to help you apply concepts and strategies!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Implement MI techniques in such a way to support other treatment modalities, specifically DBT and CBT.
  2. Theorize common factors between Motivational Interviewing, DBT and CBT.
  3. Practice transdiagnostic skills of “exchanging information,” to enhance therapy across any modality used.

Outline

Clinical skills That Matter Across All Modalities

  • What skills are essential?
  • What we’ve learned across all modalities
  • 8 Must-do skills
  • Carl Rogers & MI
  • How effective implementation looks
  • More than just “exchanging information”
  • Instilling hope
Blending CBT & MI
  • How CBT supports MI
  • Identifying the common factors
  • Know when to use CBT vs MI, or both
  • Explore Stages of Change to activate behavior
  • 2 Case Examples
Blending DBT & MI
  • Identifying common factors
  • Incorporating metaphor
  • Using MI to get client homework done
  • “Guiding” style

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Health Coaches
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Other behavioral health professionals
  • Other Healthcare Professionals
  • Other Rehab Professionals

Copyright : 09/22/2022

Motivational Interview Skills for Macro-Trauma: Help Clients Overcome the Impact of Collective, Racial & Systemic Trauma

As a therapist it can feel impossible to help clients who have been impacted by “macro” trauma, such as racial inequity, mass violence, systemic prejudice and other problems.

You need skills to help empower your clients to take action in their lives, even in the face of these unique challenges.

Gain culturally competent marco-motivational interviewing skills to support clients. In this unique training from Kristin Dempsey and Ali Hall you’ll explore how to:

  • Connect traditional MI skills to macro problems to help clients combat inner pain from collective trauma
  • Keep clients motivated to improve their lives in the face of inequities
  • Empower your clients to become advocates for change in their communities
  • Use reciprocity and mutuality to increase collaboration and alignment in session

Transform client’s barriers to change into stepping stones to a better life...

And, know that you can help your clients no matter what they're up against!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Theorize how “socially-engineered trauma” impacts your client’s mental health.
  2. Implement motivational interviewing skills with consideration of the SHARP model to create cultural humility and sensitivity.

Outline

What is Macro Trauma? And, It’s Impact

  • Level of intervention: micro, macro, mezzo
  • How does it mean to work with macro-trauma?
  • What is “Socially Engineered Trauma” & how does it impact therapy?
  • Impact of macro-structures on mental health
  • Connecting macro to micro trauma
Step-By-Step MI Skills for Macro Trauma
  • The 4 MI processed and Marco MI
  • SHAPRE core elements: society structure, historical context, analysis of role, reciprocity, mutuality & power
  • Activism, organizing and consciousness-raising for PTSD 
  • Protect communities from trauma
  • MI and Social dominance, justice and healing-centered Engagement
  • Open ended questions and macro change
  • Demonstration: How does Macro MI sound in session? 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Health Coaches
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Other behavioral health professionals
  • Other healthcare professionals
  • Other Rehab professionals
  • Other professionals who work with kids

Copyright : 09/22/2022

Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians

Conversations about change can be challenging. In this motivational interviewing (MI) toolkit, you will find a variety of tools and strategies designed to help you apply the spirit of MI so you can more effectively evoke people’s own interests, experiences, and good ideas for change. Designed for mental health clinicians who want to deepen their learning and proficiency, this toolkit provides:

  • Examples of how to use MI to support people experiencing a variety of mental health issues
  • Activities to help you more deeply explore the fundamental concepts, spirit, and tools of MI
  • Sample conversation scripts that demonstrate the MI skills in practice
  • Exercises to assess your progress and gain confidence in your skills

Most importantly, this toolkit offers a variety of flexible opportunities for you to actively practice the core skills of MI: Use them on your own, with a partner, with a team of colleagues, or within an MI learning community.