Counseling Approaches for Recovery from Substance Use: Promoting Harm Reduction, Preventing Recurrence, Sustaining Recovery, and Promoting a Healthy Life (10 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course is the third of a 3-part series on recovery from problematic substance use and examines counseling approaches for promoting harm reduction, preventing recurrence, sustaining recovery, and promoting a healthy life. There are many evidence-based practices that can help clients meet their goals for recovery. Chapter 3 explores harm reduction, trauma -informed care, motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral therapy, contingency management, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, and psychoeducation. Chapter 4 examines four domains that assist a life in recovery: health, home, purpose, and community.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
We do not recommend this course if you completed our previous course, Counseling Approaches to Promote Recovery from Problematic Substance Use and Related Issues (15 credit hours), as it covers the same course material.
Reading: Counseling Approaches to Promote Recovery From Problematic Substance Use and Related Issues: Chapters 3 and 4 Publisher: SAMHSA
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring counseling approaches for promoting harm reduction, preventing recurrence, sustaining recovery, and promoting a healthy life.
Learning Objectives: Identify evidence-based counseling approaches that support recovery from problematic substance use. Compare CBT, MI, and CM. Describe key principles of trauma-informed care. Describe four domains that support a life in recovery.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.