Details
This program is made up of the following 6 individual courses including the following titles. For further information check out the Mastery Certificate Programs at http://www.ccmsinc.net
Promoting Healthy Families 16 hours
Objective: Emphasizing a mental health point of view, this course examines how effective stress management, coping skills and improved health can be promoted with families and their individual members.
Text: Stress, Coping & Health in Families: Sense of Coherence & Resiliency by Anne I. Thompson, Julie E. Fromer, Hamilton I. McCubbin (Ed.) ISBN: 0761988718
Brief Therapy w/ Adolescents 14 hours
Objective: Examines how brief therapy can be effectively utilized in treating the adolescent clients.
Text: Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy Solutions with Difficult Adolescents by Matthew Selekman ISBN: 1572309598
Brief Therapy w/ Children 14 hours
Objective: To provide the counselor with a firmer background in how brief therapy can be used in the treatment of children and their family.
Text: Solution-Focused Therapy with Children: Harnessing Family Strengths for Systematic Change by Matthew Selekman ISBN: 1572307900
Treating the Compulsive
Gambler & Their Family 16 hours
Objective: Provides the counselor information in the treatment of the compulsive gambler and their family.
Text: Counseling Problem Gamblers and Their Families: A Clinician's Guide by Joseph W. Ciarrocchi ISBN: 0121746534
Counseling Across The Life Cycle 20 hours
Objective: Helps counselors identify how client needs change as they move through life and how counseling needs to change to better meet client needs.
Text: The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives (3rd Edition)by Elizabeth A. Carter (Editor), et al ISBN: 0205409814
Substance Abuse & Family Recovery II 18 hours
Objectives: The student will learn about the basic skills of providing counseling services to the substance abuser and their family. Client assessment, effective interventions, assessing motivation, problem-solving strategies, monitoring the ups and downs of progress are also discussed.
Text: Family Solutions for Substance Abuse: Clinical and Counseling Approaches by Eric E. McCollum & Terry S. Trepper ISBN: 0789006235
Course Delivery
Schedules
Individual courses range in prices from $25 to $75 and earn you from 12 to 20 of continuing education hours.
Couse topics include brief therapy, cognitive therapy, harm reduction therapy, crisis intervention, ethics and many more.
What we offer here are our Mastery Certificate Programs which are made up a bundling of our individual courses into similar topics areas enabling you to focus on/specialize in subjects that may interest you.
