Total CE Credit Hours: 3
Course Info URL: https://www.addictioncounselorce.com/courses/102534
About the Course:
Group therapy is regarded as a powerful means of engaging therapeutic forces such as affiliation, support, and peer confrontation to treat substance users within a culture of recovery. Groups therapy is also effective in treating problems that accompany addiction, such as depression, isolation, and shame. The power of the group can be harnessed and directed to foster healthy attachments, provide positive peer reinforcement and a forum for self-expression, and teach new social skills to clients struggling with substance use.
This course is based on the reading-based online, Substance Abuse Treatment: Group Therapy TIP 41 – Why Groups and Types of Groups created by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 2017.
Publication Date:
2017
Course Material Author
Course Creator
Recommended For:
Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
Course Objectives:
Identify advantages of group therapy as a treatment modality for substance abusers
Describe five models of group psychotherapy to treat substance abuse
Apply principles of group therapy in clinical work with substance abusers
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American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders (AAHCPAD)
3 credit hours
American Psychological Association (APA)
3 credit hours
CE Learning Systems is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB ACE)
3 credit hours
CE Learning Systems, LLC, provider #1020, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE Learning Systems, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2/23/2019 – 2/23/2022. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credit(s).
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
3 credit hours
CE Learning Systems, service provider of Addiction Counselor CE has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5951. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CE Learning Systems is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Editors's note
This note updates the information in the TIP
References in PDF format
Chapters 1 and 2 in PDF format
The exam is based on this content.
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