Description

This training will focus on improving quality of treatment for Veterans by integrating research and knowledge of military culture into client care. It will focus on a client-centered approach to caring for Veterans, with a focus on effective communication, how that culture may affect the self and world views of Veterans, the impact of current events on Veterans’ wellbeing, barriers to care, and improving assessment and treatment planning for Veterans. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this presentation, participants will:

1. Identify implications of military culture on healthcare for Veterans.

2. Describe tips for assisting Veterans who are dealing with the impact of current events.

3. Describe the importance of incorporating culturally-informed principles into practice, based on knowledge of the challenges and strengths of being a Veteran.

Presented by:

Patricia Watson, PhD

Continuing Education Units:

1.5 CEUs

Certification Board Information

This training is approved for continuing education units by the boards listed here. Additional specifications can be found below.

NAADAC (The Association for Addiction Professionals)

This course has been approved by CASAT, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for the below # of CEUs. NAADAC Provider #98165. CASAT is responsible for all aspects of its programming.

CEUs: 1.5

Skills Groups

This course applies to the following Client Skill Groups as defined by NAADAC:

• Treatment Plan

• Counseling Services

NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors)

CASAT has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6492. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CASAT is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. (Continuing education hours and CEU's are synonymous for purposes of issuing CEU's from CASAT Learning)

Qualifies for NBCC Credit: No

NCB (Nevada Certification Board)

Description

Collaborative Engagement for Clients Coerced or Mandated into Therapy offers clinicians, interns, and students a unique look into the creative and effective application of foundational concepts and innovative clinical processes that foster collaboration and cooperation with clients who do not want to be in therapy but have been coerced or mandated into treatment. Research continues to affirm that a collaborative therapeutic alliance is the primary indicator of a successful outcome, and a client-need driven, culturally sensitive, adaptive, and collaborative approach that combines the experience and strengths of the client with the skills of a solution-oriented clinician is significant in fostering cooperation, engagement, and desired change.

This workshop was developed from five decades of clinical practice and research on coerced or mandated clients, supplemented with addendums from neurolinguistic studies, strategic interventions, and client-need driven clinical processes, as featured in the book, Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues: A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes, published internationally by Routledge. Clinical processes include methods to accomplish a collaborative therapeutic alliance, foster cooperation, build hope, define and identify desired outcomes, and accomplish authentic change.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this presentation, participants will:

• have a practical understanding of the challenges involved with engaging clients coerced or mandated into treatment;

• be clear about first session processes to build engagement, cooperation, and trust;

• have skills to identify a client’s agenda, philosophy of change, and processes that lead to client-need driven solutions;

• know the limits of clinical model research and how to determine what works for the client in front of them;

• understand the power of expectancy and hope on collaboration and outcomes;

• recognize different client positions in regard to receptiveness, and how to constructively proceed;

• demonstrate fluency in neurolinguistics that promote cooperation and desired change;

• possess best practice strategies to successfully engage and continue to motivate clients who are court ordered, or coerced to attend therapy;

• acquire client centered tools and strategies important for successful outcomes with diverse populations who have reasons to be skeptical;

• productively redefine traditional labels such as difficult, impossible, borderline, or uncooperative;

• understand authentic change versus compliance or temporary change;

• have a blueprint through stories of clients in “dire straits” who found their way.

Presented by:

Saul A. Singer, LMFT, LCADC, AADC

Saul A. Singer, LMFT, LCADC, AADC, has worked for five decades as a behavioral health and addiction professional providing therapy, consultation, continuing education, college instruction, and clinical supervision in private practice and for community agencies and treatment programs. Author of Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues: A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes, a 2023 internationally published book that weaves together the stories of courageous clients and offers innovative tools that empower and motivate even the most reluctant clients to engage and identify solutions that fit for them.

Continuing Education Units:

3 CEUs

Certification Board Information

This training is approved for continuing education units by the boards listed here. Additional specifications can be found below.

NAADAC (The Association for Addiction Professionals)

This course has been approved by CASAT, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for the below # of CEUs. NAADAC Provider #98165. CASAT is responsible for all aspects of its programming.

CEUs: 3

Skills Groups

This course applies to the following Client Skill Groups as defined by NAADAC:

• Clinical Assessment

• Counseling Services

• Legal, Ethical, and Professional Development

NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors)

CASAT has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6492. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CASAT is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. (Continuing education hours and CEU's are synonymous for purposes of issuing CEU's from CASAT Learning)

Qualifies for NBCC Credit: No

NCB (Nevada Certification Board)

This course is NOT approved by the Nevada Certification Board.

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