Introductory Online Addiction Counseling R. Kennedy

Introductory Online for CAC/LAC (with Ryan Kennedy)

Online and Live-Streaming; Introductory (USA; Mountain Time)

 

Motivational Interviewing for CAC/LAC:

Guiding Therapeutic Change with a Client-Centered Approach to Transforming Ambivalence

 

“Digging for Treasure – Together”

 

 

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centered collaborative style of conversation designed to strengthen a person's motivation for and commitment to change. MI is counselor-directed in that the counselor is skilled at managing ambivalence, eliciting change-talk, and honoring the client's autonomy about taking the next step toward a commonly agreed-upon goal. Over 200 studies to date have demonstrated the effectiveness of the model at increasing client engagement, retention, compliance, and improving treatment outcomes. The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has identified MI as a best practice within the addiction treatment field. The CAC Clinical Training Program offered through the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) is committed to a process of integrating the Motivational Interviewing style, spirit, and strategies into all levels of training and to support clinical supervision of motivational interviewing as a counseling style.

 

 

- CAS/CAT: Addiction Counseling Skills

- LAC: None (Not Required; May Take as an Elective)

 

 

Participants in this Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) Approved training learn: 1) a working definition of MI and the roots and principles of MI; 2) the core concepts in MI; 3) the ability to use OARS in a recorded session; 4) the traps to avoid; 5) how to increase MI-consistent interventions and decrease MI inconsistent ones; 6) the stages of change and ways to identify readiness for change; 7) how to recognize, elicit, and reinforce various stages of change; 8) how to develop an action plan; 9) how to recognize, elicit, and reinforce change talk; and 10) ways to integrate MI skills to empower inter-professional communication.

 

NOTE: This training is approved by the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) for CAC/LAC credentialing with the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA). The training can also be taken independently of pursuing CAC/LAC credentialing as well as for general CE/CPD contact hours.

 

 

Ryan Kennedy, PsyD, LP, LAC, LMFT, LPC, RN, ACS, is the Training Director for the Noeticus Center for Professional Development™ (NCPD) and an approved Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) Addiction Counselor Trainer. Additionally, Dr. Kennedy is a Licensed Psychologist (LP), Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Registered Nurse (RN), Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), and MINT Certified MI Trainer. He has been a psychotherapist since 1993 and a counselor educator and clinical supervisor since 1996, serving as core faculty at Naropa University in the Graduate School of Counseling and Psychology and as adjunct faculty at Front Range Community College, Prescott College, Regis University, University of Colorado Denver, and Walden University. Dr. Kennedy's clinical training is in the areas of trauma and dissociative disorders, chronic and persistent mental illness, psychiatric nursing and psychopharmacology, addictions and recovery, domestic/family violence, and living with life-threatening illnesses.

 

 

Participants taking this training (and all trainings offered through the Noeticus Addiction Counselor Clinical Training Program™) are encouraged to download and read the most recent edition of the Handbook for Addiction Counselors published by the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) and available from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA). For access to the handbook and all associated CAC and LAC-related application materials, please visit the DORA website HERE: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dora/Addiction_Counselor_Applications_Docs

 

 

 

 

We hope you will be able to attend your training after you register, but we also understand that life can present many complications and challenges that are sometimes unavoidable. If you register for a training and discover later that you will be unable to attend, please take a look at our Cancellation and Refund Policy to see what your options are, then let us know what you'd like to do. Here is a link to the policy: http://www.noeticus.org/Cancel_and_Refund_Policy.html

 

 

Noeticus Counseling Center and Training Institute® has been approved by NAADAC as an Approved Education Provider, AEP, #151584 and NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #6704. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Noeticus Counseling Center and Training Institute® is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. All Noeticus Addiction Counselor Clinical Training Program™ (NACCTP™) classes have been approved by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) for workforce development grants. All trainers affiliated with the NACCTP have been approved by the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) to provide such training.