Total CE Credit Hours: 3.25
Course Info URL: http://www.addictioncounselorce.com/courses/102910
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About the Course:
This course examines building a suicide prevention and intervention-capable agency, and is geared toward administrators, executive directions, board members and other upper level staff. It includes: Consensus Panel Recommendations for Administrators, The Benefits of Addressing Suicidality in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs, Why Should Administrators Be Involved in a Clinical Issue, Levels of Program Involvement and Core Program Components, The Role of Administrators in Implementing and Supporting Programming for Clients With Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, The Role of Mid-Level Staff in Implementing and Supporting, Programming for Clients With Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Legal and Ethical Issues in Addressing Suicidality in Substance Abuse Programs, Organizational Assessment, Organizational Planning for Becoming a Level 2 Program, Program Implementation, Helping Your Program Develop and Improve Capabilities in Working With Clients Who Are Suicidal, Helping Your Agency Develop and Improve Its Response to Suicidal Crises, and Building Administrative Support for All Levels of GATE.
This course is based on the article, TIP 50-Addressing Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment created by SAMHSA in 2017.
Publication Date:
2017
Course Material Author
Course Creator
Recommended For:
Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
Course Objectives:
Acknowledge the need for implementing a suicidality policy, training, and program.
Identify the steps necessary to become a Level II program.
Summarize legal and ethical requirements to ensure client safety.
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American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders (AAHCPAD)
3.25 credit hours
American Psychological Association (APA)
3.25 credit hours
CE Learning Systems is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
3.25 credit hours
CE Learning Systems, LLC, provider #1020, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE Learning Systems, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2/23/2019 – 2/23/2022. Social workers completing this course receive 3.25 general continuing education credit(s).
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
3.25 credit hours
CE Learning Systems, service provider of Addiction Counselor CE has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5951. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CE Learning Systems is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Course Material
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