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Follow on Google News | Improving Drug and Alcohol Treatment for Women.The drug and alcohol treatment profession has responded to women specific issues by educating counselors and finding ways to address these women and their specific issues.
By: Pete Nielsen Now California Alcohol And Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC) has responded by offering a specialty endorsement. So certified alcohol and drug counselors, other addiction professionals, and preventionists can have a way to identify the type of specialty work they do when marketing their credentials because they have worked very hard to become certified counselors. This endorsement provides the ability for counselors to be recognized for their specialized education, knowledge, and experience that they have achieved. This optional “Specialty Endorsements” One such provider is Willingness To Change (WTC). They have created six workshops that meet the requirements for the 36-hour women specialty endorsement. These workshops are six hours long. Each workshop has been designed to be fun and informative. They have a collaborative instructor approach with experts that not only have a substance abuse background, but have medical expertise and an educational background as well. Some of the topics include Women’s Health, Gender Specific Risk Factors: Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse, Trauma Specific Treatment, Systems Coordination, and Parenting Issues. Willingness To Change assists in helping make the professional more marketable in this very competitive profession by providing addiction professionals with the education necessary to become a better professional and to get the women’s endorsement added to their certification. WTC also provides this training to professionals working with women in treatment that are not looking to add the women’s treatment endorsement, but just want to become better professionals. Some of the other topics of workshops that Willingness To Change provides are: clinical supervision, integrating the family into treatment, grief and loss, improving counseling skills, interventions, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, criminal justice and treatment, leadership, trauma informed treatment, co-occurring disorders, counselor wellness, behavior problems in treatment, prevention, and many more. If you want more information on these workshops or to get a list of other workshops that Willingness To Change provides call toll-free at 1-877-644-5411 or e-mail at info@willingnesstochange.org. # # # Willingness To Change is a non-profit that provides training and consultation in : clinical supervision, integrating the family into treatment, grief and loss, improving counseling skills, interventions, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, criminal justice and treatment, leadership, trauma informed treatment, co-occurring disorders, counselor wellness, behavior problems in treatment, prevention, and many more. Willingness To Change also provides: Substance Abuse Interventions, Coaching, Counseling and DOT SAP Assessments End
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