Relapse Prevention Services - REVISITED (6 hours)

About This Course Your Course Instructor Course Formats This newly revised 6 hour course by Vic Shaw examines the issues and needs for relapse prevention in the treatment of chemical dependency. He will help you examine the major approaches currently in practice, and increase your awareness of the critical needs that relapse prevention plans in long-term recovery. Goals/Objectives By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will: Articulate how common drugs of abuse change the brain. Describe how dopamine works in the brain. Identify how neuron pathways are change by drugs of abuse. List key factors that increase personal vulnerability to drug abuse and addiction. Summarize results of research reported in current Relapse Prevention literature. Describe the key elements of Marlatt’s Relapse Prevention Model. Compare the Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Relapse to Marlatt’s Model. Summarize important large-scale treatment outcome results. List the key genetic influenc