A Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction Module 3 (4 hours)
Implement CRA+Vouchers techniques addressing co-occurring substances, mood disorders, and relationship dynamics in cocaine treatment.
- Credit Hours: 4 Hours
- Author: Robert Shearer
- Price: $52.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply relationship counseling techniques within the Community Reinforcement Approach framework.
- Demonstrate communications training strategies for improving interpersonal functioning in recovery.
- Assess concurrent substance use issues, including alcohol and marijuana use, in cocaine-dependent clients.
- Identify depressive symptomatology and anxiety as co-occurring conditions in cocaine addiction treatment.
- Describe the insomnia protocol used in the CRA+V treatment approach.
- Explain the role of clinical supervision and counselor treatment team meetings in maintaining treatment fidelity.
- Develop strategies for addressing concurrent marijuana and alcohol use in clients receiving CRA+V treatment for cocaine addiction.
Package Contents
Course Details
Course Description: A Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach Treating Cocaine Addiction Module 3 is the third module in a three-part series based on a NIDA therapy manual, covering the Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers (CRA+Vouchers) approach to treating cocaine addiction. It is designed for therapists and counselors who want to implement CRA+Vouchers in practice, and addresses topics including relationship counseling, communications training, concurrent substance use (alcohol and marijuana), depressive symptomatology, anxiety, insomnia, and clinical supervision. The course draws on materials developed in 1998 that remain clinically relevant, with research continuing to support CRA’s effectiveness in reducing drug use, improving psychiatric symptoms, and increasing treatment retention. Completing all three modules gives practitioners the full guidance needed to apply CRA+Vouchers as a complete treatment program or to use its individual components alongside other approaches.
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)
