Montana LAC Substance Abuse Certification

This course includes 330 hours of across the following content areas:

• 90 hours – counseling
• 60 hours – chemical dependency assessment and patient placement
  • Includes chemical dependency assessment, biopsychosocial testing, diagnosis, referrals, and patient placement
• 30 hours – alcohol and drug studies
• 30 hours – co-occurring disorders
• 30 hours gambling/gaming disorder assessment and counseling
• 30 hours – pharmacology
  • Includes drug classification, effects, detoxification, and withdrawal
• 30 hours – treatment planning and documentation
• 20 hours – multicultural competency
• 10 hours – ethics

330 Hours – $2640

Please contact our office for information regarding payment plan options or to purchase individual content sections.

Topics covered include:

• Enhancing Motivation for Change
• Group Therapy
• Trauma-Informed Care

90 Hours – $720

Please contact our office for information regarding payment plan options.

Topics covered include:

• Screening and assessment
• Patient placement criteria
• Assessment with special populations and special issues

60 Hours – $480

This course focuses on theoretical models of addiction and various theoretical approaches to substance abuse treatment.

Topics covered include:

• Behavioral approaches
• Cognitive-behavioral approaches
• Strategic-interactional approaches
• Humanistic and existential approaches
• Psychodynamic approaches
• Family-based approaches
• Group therapy approaches
• Evaluation and outcome studies

30 Hours – $240

This course focuses on the unique issues of substance abuse among individuals with co-occurring psychiatric disorders and best-practice philosophies for treating clients with co-occurring disorders.

Topics covered include:

• Guiding principles for treating clients with co-occurring disorders
• Assessment and diagnostic criteria
• Psychopharmacology and psychotherapeutic medications
• Treatment settings and models
• Strategies and techniques for working with co-occurring disorder populations
• Dual recovery and mutual self-help support programs
• Workforce development and staff support
• Special populations

30 Hours – $240

This course focuses on financial issues and strategies for problem gamblers and their families and various issues related to youth gambling.

Topics covered include:

• Social and personal costs of problem gambling to individuals and their families
• Financial warning signs
• Identifying assets and creating a realistic spending plan
• Personal bankruptcy issues
• Financial stabilization strategies
• Scope and prevalence of youth gambling
• Risk and protective factors
• Assessment issues
• Prevention efforts
• Treatment strategies and approaches

30 Hours – $240

This course focuses on the physical, psychological and pharmacological effects of drugs of abuse. Psychoactive substances covered include cocaine, hallucinogens and dissociative drugs, heroin, inhalants, marijuana, MDMA (ecstasy), methamphetamine, prescription medications, steroids and other APEDs, and tobacco.

Topics covered include:

• Scope and prevalence of psychoactive substance use in the United States
• The pharmacology of addiction
• Brain chemistry and neurotransmission
• Brain rewards mechanisms and systems
• Tolerance and withdrawal
• Predisposing risk factors
• Short- and long-term behavioral consequences
• Short- and long-term medical complications and consequences
• Effects of prenatal and maternal use

30 Hours – $240

This course focuses on best-practice philosophies for effective substance abuse treatment planning.

Topics covered include:

• Prioritizing client needs
• Components of treatment planning
• Treatment goals, objectives and interventions
• Re-evaluation of treatment plans
• Client participation in the treatment planning process
• Treatment planning skills and competencies
• Client motivation and readiness for change
• Co-Occurring disorders and special populations
• Treatment planning for special populations

30 Hours – $240

This course offers a conceptual framework for working with diverse cultural groups in a substance abuse treatment setting.

Topics covered include:

• General principles for delivering culturally competent treatment services
• Health and social consequences of drug use
• Help seeking behaviors
• Access to care issues and barriers to treatment
• Core competences and skills
• Adapting treatment approaches to clients from culturally diverse backgrounds
• Drug cultures and the culture of recovery
• Culturally responsive assessment and treatment planning

20 Hours – $160

This course focuses on legal issues, ethical principles and professional considerations commonly faced by addiction professionals.

Topics covered include:

• Ethical principles and legal issues in addiction counseling
• Counselor-client relationships
• Transference/countertransference
• Boundary issues
• Clinical supervision and counselor competence
• Professional readiness
• Federal Confidentiality Regulations (42 CFR Part 2)
• The HIPAA Privacy Rule
• Application of NAADAC Code Ethics in professional practice

10 Hours – $115