- Credit Hours: 6 Hours
- Author: David Earle
- Price: $78.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify dysfunctional family patterns and habits that are transmitted across generations and their impact on substance use and recovery.
- Describe the various roles commonly experienced in dysfunctional families and their effects on individual functioning.
- Explain how the awareness that chaos stems from habits rather than personal character can serve as a catalyst for change in clients.
- Apply counseling strategies to help clients recognize and interrupt destructive relational patterns originating from their families of origin.
- Demonstrate techniques for guiding clients through the process of developing healthier approaches to intimate and family relationships.
- Analyze the relationship between dysfunctional family habits and substance use disorders.
- Describe common barriers clients face when attempting to change entrenched family relationship patterns.
- Develop a treatment approach that helps clients replace dysfunctional family habits with constructive relational skills.
Package Contents
Course Details
Course Description: Love is Not Enough Changing Dysfunctional Family Habits covers the dysfunctional habits that interfere with healthy loving relationships and how counselors can guide clients through changing them. It is designed for mental health professionals who work with clients from dysfunctional family backgrounds and want practical tools to support that change process. Participants will learn to identify the seven love-limiting habits, understand the family roles that carry destructive patterns into adulthood, and help clients recognize that their struggles stem from learned behavior rather than personal failing. The course is based on the book Love is Not Enough by David Walton Earle, LPC, and includes a framework for helping clients work through barriers to healthier relationships.
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
David Earle
David Walton Earle, LPC combines his counseling skills with his twenty-plus-years of executive management experience into a powerful matrix called Business Coaching. Using this technique, Earle assist leaders to increase their leadership effectiveness through people skills. He is also a teacher, trainer, author, counselor, and alternative dispute professional. Earle earned a Master’s of Science in Counseling from Texas A&M and has held executive management positions in various fields including industrial construction, private investment banking, and corporate trouble shooting. He is now the president of the Earle Company, an organization dedicated to change.
Approved and Widely Recognized
CEU Matrix is approved by the following national and state accreditation boards:
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)
Provider Statement:
CEU Matrix, provider #2726, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 07/23/2026-07/23/2027.