- Credit Hours: 3 Hours
- Author: Delbert Boone
- Price: $39.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the disease model of addiction and explain how drugs affect the brain and body to produce dependence.
- Identify the behavioral patterns associated with addiction in criminal justice clients, including resistance, denial, and criminal thinking.
- Explain the concept of making adjustments in thinking and behavior as a framework for moving clients toward recovery.
- Apply strategies for helping criminal justice clients take an honest look at the choices they have made as a result of their addiction.
- Describe techniques for moving clients toward the goals of treatment, healthy thinking, and sobriety.
- Analyze the relationship between addiction, criminal behavior, and the erosion of morals and values in individuals involved in the criminal justice system.
Package Contents
Course Details
Course Description: Understanding Addiction and Criminal Behavior covers the relationship between addiction and criminal behavior, with a focus on helping addiction professionals work more effectively with criminal justice clients. It examines how alcohol and drug addiction influences the choices clients make and explores strategies for moving clients toward treatment goals, healthier thinking, and sobriety. The course is intended for addiction counselors and others who work with offenders or clients in the criminal justice system. Instructor Delbert Boone draws on 30 years of professional experience as well as his own history with addiction and incarceration to provide practical guidance for motivating clients toward change.
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
Delbert Boone
Delbert Boone was one of the nation’s foremost authorities on addiction and criminal behavior, an identity established through his ability to consistently help drug offenders and substance abuse counselors understand the parallels between addiction and criminal behavior.
Over the last twenty-five years Boone worked with addicts from all walks of life and by relating his own struggles with addiction to heroin and incarceration, he gave hope where there previously was none. Boone developed the tools to help individuals who are seriously challenged by life. . . individuals facing addiction to alcohol and other drugs, incarceration, depression, frustration, and loneliness.
Boone’s primary work though was through his own consulting and training firm NND Productions, in which he consulted with both local and federal correctional systems, as well as school districts and law enforcement officials nationwide to deliver quality and effective substance abuse treatment programs and services.
Delbert Boone was an award winning video presenter. Since 1995, he was honored with seven International Telly Awards and recognized for outstanding contributions at four American Corrections Association Film Festivals for his video programs.
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)