Addictions Counselor Certification Test Prep

Explore ethics and confidentiality in addiction counseling, covering patient rights, consent, grounds for breaching confidentiality, privilege, and dual relationships to prepare for certification.

Examine aversion therapy and behavioral therapy techniques, including reinforcement, response shaping, and behavior contracting, within culturally competent addiction counseling. Review co-occurring disorders, DSM concepts, and ethics in practice.

Master crisis management and education in addiction counseling, and explore client-centered, reality therapy, transactional analysis, and operant conditioning, plus defense mechanisms and the ABC model for practice.

Explore the twelve core functions of counselling, including feedback, attending skills, empathy, self-disclosure, Maslow's needs, and communication strategies in alcohol and drug counselling.

This lecture covers the acute physiological effects of cocaine and crack cocaine, addiction causes and treatment models, plus counselling fundamentals and the 12 core functions for assessment and treatment planning.

Explore addiction fundamentals, DSM criteria, and five components of effective treatment, then examine neurobiology, neurotransmitters, and brain structures, followed by an overview of drugs of abuse and their effects.