Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes
Counselors, coaches and sober companions help hundreds of thousands of people affected by Addictions and Mental Health issues each year. Learn about the current research and practical counseling tools to improve your skills and provide the best possible services. Counselor Toolbox targets counselors, coaches and companions, but can also provide useful counseling self-help tools for persons struggling with these issues and their loved ones. AllCEUs is an approved counseling continuing education provider for addiction and mental health counselors in most states. Counseling CEUs are available for each episode.
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Mental Health, Serotonin, Dopamine, and Neurode...
» Define Neurodegenerative Disorders
» Explore the bidirectional interaction of mood and NDs
» Review the functions of serotonin and dopamine in mood and neurodegenerative disorders
» Describe the symptoms of NDs
» Explore Primary, Secondary and Tert
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Trauma Informed, Strengths Based Appproach to R...
- Review the characteristics of BPD
- Explore the functions of these symptoms
- Identify what may cause these symptoms to develop
- Explore what is maintaining these symptoms (benefits to the client)
- Explore the effects of these symptoms on signifi
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PostPartum Depression
- Define postpartum depression
- Identify signs of postpartum psychosis
- Identify Risk factors of PPD
- Identify screening tools and protocols
- Discuss the impact of PPD on the mother, child and family
- Identify the cause of PPD
- Explore curren
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Unique Issues of Children in Foster Care
Summary ~ Young traumatized children’s reactions and behaviors are best understood in the context of relationship. ~ Foster care is an active intervention with the goal of helping the young child to recover from their traumatic experience, not just a “pl
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Specific Needs of Women and Primary Caregivers ...
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Caring for Caregivers
Objectives
~ Explore what caregivers really are
~ Identify some of the things caregivers do
~ Identify the consequences of adopting a caregiver role
~ Review cognitive behavioral strategies to help caregivers prevent physical, emotional and inter
60 min
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Mental Health and the Elderly – 12 Key Points
Summary
- Normal aging is a gradual process that ushers in some physical decline, such as decreased sensory abilities (e.g., vision and hearing) and decreased pulmonary and immune function
- Decline in cognitive capacity with aging is partly preventab
57 min
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Impact of Hepatitis on Recovery
Objectives
~ Learn about hepatitis and its prevalence
~ Identify the consequences of hepatitis
~ Explore the impact of hepatitis on mental health and effective interventions
57 min
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Mental Health Issues Associated with HBP and CVD
Objectives
~ Define and examine the prevalence of HBP and CVD
~ Explore the impact of HBP and CVD on mental health
~ Identify strategies to improve wellness while living with HBP/CVD
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Endocannabinoids and Mental Health
~ Explore the role of the endocannabinoid system in
~ Mood disorders
~ Cognitive disorders
~ Autoimmune and inflammatory disorders
~ Pain
~ Stress
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Child and Elder Abuse Prevention
~ Define the three types of prevention
~ Review risk factors for abuse
~ Identify strategies for preventing abuse and neglect
~ Discuss reasons prevention programs fail
3 Types of Prevention
~ Primary: Keep it from happening
~ Secondary: Prevent wo
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills and 12...
Objectives
- The Goal of ACT
- What is Mindfulness?
- How Does ACT Differ from Other Mindfulness-based Approaches?
- What is Unique to Act?
- Destructive Normality
- Experiential Avoidance
- Therapeutic Interventions
- Confronting the Agenda
- C
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills
Objectives
- Why was DBT created
- Understanding Emotional Dysregulation
- Identify DBT assumptions about clients and therapists
- Explore skills to help clients learn
- Distress Tolerance
- Emotional Regulation
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
59 min
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CBT Interventions Group Activities
Explore ways to teach Cognitive behavioral interventions in group
59 min
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Co-Occurring Disorders Current Evidence Based T...
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Child Abuse Awareness Types, Prevalence, Indic...
Objectives
~ Child Abuse Awareness: Types, Prevalence, Indicators and Impact
58 min
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Trauma Informed Care for Persons Who Are NeuroA...
Objectives
~ Define Neuro-Atypical
~ Explore how they may experience the world differently
~ Reflect on experiences not traumatic to people who are neurotypical may be traumatic to those who are neuroatypical
~ Hypothesize about how common parenting
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Pharmacology of Alcohol
Objectives
~ Explore the impact of alcohol on neurotransmitters and major bodily systems
Intro
~ Heavy drinking worsens morbidity from chronic disease as it exacerbates the effects of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hepatitis, and interferes with
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Stress, Thyroid, Hormones, and Mood
Summary
~ Thyroid hormones can be altered by physical or emotional stress
~ Thyroid hormones via the HPT axis are intertwined with the HPA-Axis –dysfunction in one produces dysfunction in the other
~ Many cognitive, affective and behavioral symptoms c
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Improving Treatment for People with Physical a...
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Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) – Neuroch...
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Objectives
~ Learn what PAWS is
~ Explore why
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Oxytocin and Mental Health
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Objectives
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Acetylcholine
Summary
- Acetylcholine is not often talked about but is a necessary excitatory neurotransmitter
- Acetylcholine interacts with gonadal hormones, thyroid hormones and several neurotransmitters
- Acetylcholine is important for energy, memory, attention
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Internet, Gaming, and Gambling Addiction
Video games, online gambling, online shopping and pornography all have the potential to become problematic
Social media also has an addictive quality that can cause withdrawal and exacerbate mood disorders and/or addictions
What Makes a Video Game Addi
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Eating Disorders and Addictions
Based in Part on Brief Therapy with Eating Disorders by Barbara McFarland, and the Overcoming Disordered Eating Protocol by the Centre for Clinical Intervention
- Shifting paradigms to one of resourcefulness vs. sickness
- Identifying key interviewing
62 min