This course covers the required 30 hours of education for CAC-I certification.

Topics covered include:

• Understanding the dynamics of human behavior and family systems – 3 hours
• Signs and symptoms of substance abuse – 3 hours
• Recovery process, stages of change, relapse prevention, treatment approaches, group dynamics and other adjunctive treatment recovery support groups, motivational interviewing, and models and theories of addiction – 3 hours
• Ethics, rules and regulations – 3 hours
• Professional identity in the provision of substance abuse services – 3 hours
• Crisis Intervention – 3 hours
• Cultural factors and competencies in addiction – 3 hours
• Co-Occurring disorders in interdisciplinary treatment – 3 hours
• Diagnostic and screening criteria in addictions – 3 hours
• Psychopharmacology resources in the treatment of addictions – 3 hours

30 Hours – $325