A Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction Module 2 (3 hours)
Implement CRA+Vouchers cocaine treatment skills: refusal training, problem solving, and vocational counseling.
- Credit Hours: 3 Hours
- Author: Robert Shearer
- Price: $39.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply functional analysis techniques to identify antecedents and consequences of cocaine use.
- Develop a self-management plan to support client abstinence from cocaine.
- Demonstrate drug refusal training techniques with cocaine-dependent clients.
- Apply time management and social/recreational counseling strategies to support recovery.
- Describe vocational counseling and social skills training as components of the CRA+V approach.
- Outline HIV/AIDS prevention strategies relevant to clients in cocaine addiction treatment.
Package Contents
Course Details
Course Description: A Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach Treating Cocaine Addiction Module 2 is the second of three modules covering the Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers (CRA+Vouchers) approach to treating cocaine addiction, based on a NIDA therapy manual. It is designed for therapists who want to implement CRA+Vouchers in practice, either as a complete treatment or as individual components alongside other approaches. Topics covered in this module include functional analysis, self-management planning, drug refusal training, time management, social and recreational counseling, problem solving, vocational counseling, social skills training, and HIV/AIDS prevention. The course materials were originally developed in 1998 but reflect an approach that continues to be supported by research across a range of patient outcomes.
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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CEU Matrix is approved with the following state boards:
Arkansas (ASACB), California (CCAPP #OS-07-394-0222), California (CADTP #250), Connecticut (#0115-5202), Delaware (DCB #37), Florida (FCB #5141-A), Georgia (ADACBGA #2026-4-003), Illinois (IAODAPCA #19345), Kentucky, Louisiana (LA ADRA #E026), Michigan (MCBAP), Missouri (Missouri CB #183), New Mexico (NMCBBHP #2046), North Carolina (NCSAPPB), Ohio (OCDP #50-19236), Oklahoma (OBLADS #20260153), Texas (TCB #1758-07)