Addiction Counseling Competencies: The Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes of Professional Practice (Module 2) (3 hours)
Describe TAP 21 competencies across service coordination, counseling, documentation, and professional ethics in addiction practice.
- Credit Hours: 3 Hours
- Author: John Tinsley
- Price: $39.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the competencies required for effective service coordination in addiction counseling practice.
- Apply counseling competencies specific to working with clients who have psychoactive substance use disorders.
- Explain the counselor's role in client, family, and community education about substance use disorders.
- Outline documentation standards and practices essential to professional addiction counseling.
- Identify the professional and ethical responsibilities that govern addiction counseling practice.
- Evaluate one's own professional development needs based on the competency framework presented in TAP 21.
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Course Details
Course Description: Addiction Counseling Competencies The Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes of Professional Practice (Module 2) covers the second half of the TAP 21 framework from SAMHSA, focusing on service coordination, counseling, client and family education, documentation, and professional and ethical responsibilities. It is designed for substance abuse and addiction counselors who want to evaluate counseling curricula, advise students, or assess their own proficiency against established competency standards. The course draws directly from the DHHS publication Addiction Counseling Competencies: The Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes of Professional Practice, which identifies 123 competencies relevant to psychoactive substance use disorder counseling. This is the second of two modules covering the full TAP 21 manual.
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
John Tinsley
Dr. John H. Tinsley is a former assistant professor of Medical Physiology at the Texas A&M University System College of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; M.S. from the University of North Carolina; and his B.S. from the University of Oklahoma.
He has been teaching, training, consulting and conducting research in the fields of Medical Physiology and Behavioral Biology for over twenty-nine years. Dr. Tinsley has authored over twenty-five professional and refereed articles, including invited reviews. He has been a member of the American Society for Physiology, and work done in 2001 led to an international award from The European Society on Microcirculation. Dr. Tinsley has received research funding from the Veteran’s Administration, American Heart Association, and Scott and White Hospital. In addition, he has served on numerous review committees for national grant-funding agencies and scientific journals.
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