Distinguish habitual thinking patterns and behavioral tactics that block self-reflection and change in criminal populations.
- Credit Hours: 8 Hours
- Author: Stanton Samenow
- Price: $104.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the specific tactics and habits that individuals with criminal and addictive behavior use to block personal change.
- Describe how thinking patterns serve as defense mechanisms that maintain destructive behavior in clients with substance use disorders.
- Explain the role of ambivalence in the early stages of the change process for individuals with criminal and addictive behaviors.
- Apply cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients recognize how their thinking errors function as barriers to recovery.
- Demonstrate group facilitation strategies for challenging clients' rationalizations and justifications for continued destructive behavior.
- Analyze the relationship between free will, personal choice, and responsible decision-making within the Samenow framework.
- Distinguish between genuine commitment to change and superficial compliance in clients mandated to treatment.
- Apply interactive journaling exercises to guide clients through self-reflection on their habits that block change.
- Utilize role-play methods to help participants experience situations from multiple viewpoints and develop alternative responses.
- Develop facilitation plans for leading structured group sessions using the Tactics curriculum and video components (Parts IV-VI).
- Evaluate client progress through pre- and post-test measures to assess changes in thinking patterns and attitudes.
- Explain how the Tactics curriculum integrates with the broader Commitment to Change program to support sustained behavioral change.
Package Contents
Course Details
Course Description: Certified Facilitator – Samenow’s Tactics Habits That Block Change covers the behavioral tactics and habits that people use to avoid self-examination and block meaningful change in their lives, and is designed for facilitators working with individuals who engage in criminal or destructive behavior. Drawing on Dr. Stanton Samenow’s research and group session dialogues, the course examines how these habitual patterns of acting keep people stuck and shut out those trying to help them. The course includes three videos showing Dr. Samenow working directly with inmates as they identify and confront the tactics and habits they use to resist looking at themselves. Facilitators who complete this course will earn a certification demonstrating their understanding of how awareness of these tactics and habits is a foundational step toward enabling change in clients.
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
Stanton Samenow
Dr. Stanton Samenow received his B.A. (cum laude) from Yale University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1968. Thereafter, he joined the Program for the Investigation of Criminal Behavior at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and became clinical research psychologist for the program.
With the late Dr. Samuel Yochelson, he participated in the longest in-depth clinical research-treatment study of offenders that has been conducted in North America. In 1978, Dr. Samenow entered the private practice of clinical psychology in Alexandria, Virginia. His specialty has continued to be the evaluation and treatment of juvenile and adult offenders. Dr. Samenow has delivered lectures, training seminars, and workshops in 48 states, Canada, and England, to a variety of professional groups including mental health, law enforcement, corrections, education, social services, and the judiciary.
He has served as a consultant and expert witness for a variety of courts and agencies, including the FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the U.S. Office of Probation. In 1980, he was appointed by President Reagan to the Law Enforcement Task Force and in1982 to the President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime. In 1987, President Reagan appointed him as a Conferee to the White House Conference on a Drug-Free America. Dr. Samenow has authored numerous articles for professional publications and appeared frequently on national radio and television broadcasts, including 60 Minutes, The Phil Donahue Show, Good Morning America, The CBS Morning News, the Today Show and The Larry King Show. Dr. Samenow appears in films exclusively for FMS:
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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)
