A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction (CBA-2) Module 2 (4 hours)
Implement CBT coping skills for cocaine addiction, covering motivation, refusal skills, and HIV risk reduction.
- Credit Hours: 4 Hours
- Author: Robert Shearer
- Price: $52.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply motivational techniques to strengthen a client's commitment to abstinence from cocaine.
- Demonstrate refusal and assertiveness skills for managing social pressure to use cocaine.
- Identify seemingly irrelevant decisions that increase risk for cocaine relapse.
- Develop a comprehensive coping plan for anticipating and managing high-risk situations.
- Apply problem-solving strategies to address barriers to cocaine abstinence and recovery.
- Formulate achievable treatment goals that support sustained recovery from cocaine dependence.
- Outline HIV risk reduction strategies as a component of cognitive-behavioral treatment for cocaine addiction.
Package Contents
Course Details
Course Description: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach Treating Cocaine Addiction (CBA-2) Module 2 is the second of two modules covering a NIDA-developed cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) approach to treating cocaine addiction, designed for drug abuse treatment practitioners, mental health professionals, and others working in addiction treatment. It presents eight sessions that build on the first module, addressing topics such as strengthening motivation, refusal and assertiveness skills, seemingly irrelevant decisions, coping plans, problem solving, case management, and HIV risk reduction. Students will learn how to help clients anticipate high-risk situations, set goals, identify resources, involve significant others, and monitor progress toward recovery. The course was developed from materials produced in 1998 and is taught by Dr. Robert A. Shearer, a retired professor with over 36 years of experience in criminal justice, human behavior, and addictions counseling.
Date: Ongoing
Distance Learning Method: Asynchronous Reading
Target Audience: Social Workers, Substance Abuse Counselors, Criminal Justice Professionals
Refund Policy: If you request a refund within 30 days of placing your order (and prior to submitting any exams / completing any courses) we will gladly issue a refund of your money, less the processing fee and handling charge.
Course Interactivity: None
Posttest Requirements: Must score 80% or better to pass. Tests can be taken multiple times to obtain passing score.
Course Completion Requirements: Passing score on posttest. Submission of course evaluation. Course date of completion is recorded at this point.
Certificate of Completion: Issued when course is completed, available for download in Student Center
System Requirements: Internet access
About the Instructor
Robert A. Shearer
Dr. Robert A. Shearer is a retired professor of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychology from Texas A & M University, Commerce. Prior to teaching Criminal Justice, he taught Educational Psychology at Mississippi State University on campus and in the extension program across rural Mississippi during the civil rights era.
He has been teaching, training, consulting and conducting research in the fields of Criminal Justice, human behavior, and addictions for over thirty-six years. He is the author of over sixty professional and refereed articles in Criminal Justice and behavior. He is also the author of Interviewing: Theories, techniques, and practices, 5th edition published by Prentice Hall. Dr. Shearer has also created over a dozen measurement, research, and assessment instruments in Criminal Justice and addictions.
He has been a psychotherapist in private practice and served as a consultant to dozens of local, state, and national agencies. His interests continue to be substance abuse program assessment and evaluation. He has taught courses in interviewing, human behavior, substance abuse counseling, drugs-crime-social policy, assessment and treatment planning, and educational psychology. He has also taught several university level psychology courses in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division, led group therapy in prison, trained group therapists, and served as an expert witness in various courts of law.
He has been the president of the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counseling and the editor of the Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling as well as a member of many Criminal Justice, criminology, and counseling professional organizations prior to retirement.
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