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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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
58 min
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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
50 min
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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
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Mindfulness and Self Regulation for Children an...
Objectives
- Core Mindfulness
- Walking the Middle Path
- Distress Tolerance
- Emotion Regulation
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Mindfulness Exercises
- DBT Games and Activities
Core Mindfulness
- Three States of Mind
- Reasonable: School Brai
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The Impact of Gut Health For Mental Health and ...
Objectives
- BREIFLY review the findings from the research identifying the connection between the brain and the gut
- Differentiate gut health from proper nutrition
- Identify signs and consequences of poor gut health
- Explore the bidirectional rela
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Mental Health and Cancer – Coping is a Loved On...
Objectives
- Explore the unique needs of loved ones and caregivers of people with cancer
Diagnosis
- 650,000+ people die of cancer EACH year
- When someone is diagnosed, the patient and loved ones grieve
- Even if the cancer is “cured” or goes into
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Biopsychosocial Aspects of HPSA-Axis Dysfunctio...
Biopsychosocial Aspects of HPA-Axis Dysfunction
Objectives
- Define and explain the HPA-Axis
- Identify the impact of trauma on the HPA Axis
- Identify the impact of chronic stress/cumulative trauma on the HPA-Axis
- Identify symptoms of HPA-Axis dy
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Mental Healt...
Summary
- Additional modules will focus on topics including…
- Accommodations for the clinician to prevent exasperation and burnout.
- FASD in the criminal justice system
- Case management and Unmet needs for caregivers
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