Knock Out Package 40CEU

Meets Ethics requirements.  This course will inform you on ethical issues that occur in clinical work with families, including divorce, custody conflicts, and boundary clarification in working with children, adolescents, adults, seniors, and guardians. Duty to warn responsibilities will be examined as they apply to domestic violence crisis. Responsibilities and duties of the clinician and the family will be covered. (booklet)

Objectives: Participants will be:

• Be familiar with the connection between values and ethics
• Aaware of of decision making steps and addressing ethical dilemmas
• Familiar with the requirements of informed consent
• Familiar with the NASW code of ethics concerning billing, fraud, honesty, conflict of interest, interruption of service privacy and confidentiality

Objectives:

• Define low risk drinking, at-risk drinking, problem drinking, and alcohol dependence in older adults
• Know drinking guidelines for adults age 65 and over
• Understand the prevalence of at-risk drinking, problem drinking, and alcohol dependence among older adults
• Identify signs and symptoms of alcohol problems in older adults
• Know how to use brief alcohol interventions with older adults
• Recognize barriers to intervention and treatment, and how to address them

Not only does the family influence the developmental course of alcohol use disorders, but the alcohol use disorders of individual family members influence the entire family's functioning and developmental outcomes of the system and its members.

Objectives:

• Recognize a family systems perspective of alcohol use disorders;

• Be familiar with family factors that increase or reduce risk of developing an alcohol use disorder;

• Be familiar with family problems that may result from or co-occur with an alcohol use disorder;

• Understand recent research concerning the relationship between family factors and recovery.
  

This is a must read for all field workers and mental health professionals working in child abuse and neglect crisis intervention situations.

Objectives:
1.Understanding Crisis
2.Understand the elements of crises
3.Understand a workers vulnerability and safety measures
4.Learn burnout prevention tips
5.Learn crisis intervention goals and steps (Nine step model)
6.Learn treatment approaches and techniques including resistance
7.Understand common terms used in during crisis intervention

Crisis Intervention begins at the first moment of contact with clients. Goals and implementation of those goals results in tremendous benefits to families.

Objectives:
1.Understand crisis intervention goals and steps as it relates to children
2.The importance of competent assessment when working with families
3.Understanding special family situations
4.Review the importance of follow up service
5.Review crisis intervention and safety measures
6. Learn important vocabulary and terms 
 

New! This is a must read for all mental health professionals. Seperate articles discuss medications as well as the importance of gun safety as it relates to mental health.   

Objectives
1. Types of medications used to treat mental health disorders
2. Side effects of medications
3. Directions for taking medications
4. Warnings about medications from the FDA

5. Reducing gun violence