Counseling Special Populations II
Details
This program is made up of the following 5 individual courses including the following titles. For further information check out the Mastery Certificate Programs at http://www.ccmsinc.net
Sexual Issues In Therapy 14 hours
Objective: Explores the treatment and life issues with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered clients.
Text: Issues In Therapy With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Clients by Charles Neal & Dominic Davies
ISBN: 0335203310
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
Cognitive Group Therapy
w/ Special Problems & Populations 16 hours
Objective: Demonstrates the application of the cognitive-behavioral model to clients who come from special populations and who have special problems.
Text: Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy for Specific Problems and Populations by John R. Wright & Arthur S. Freeman (ed) ISBN: 1557986908
Ethnocultural Factors in Substance
Abuse Treatment 18 hours
Objective: The student will gain a greater understanding of what it means to be culturally competent. Additionally, they will understand the origins and history of attitudes and behaviors of a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds as they relate to substance use/abuse. Finally how to effectively treat clients from the various backgrounds covered in the text including various varieties of African American, Native and Latino American, European, Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds.
Text: Ethnocultural Factors in Substance Abuse Treatment by Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner ISBN: 1572308850
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.
