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    Organizational Trainings

    ORGANIZATIONAL TRAININGS FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTERS

    All trainings listed below can be customized for your staffing needs, including all-staff trainings onsite in the Denver area.  Please look at the topics covered below and call today to design a training for your staff!


TRAININGS FOR HOUSE MANAGERS AND PSYCH TECHS.

Decreasing Client Dysregulation
House management and psychiatric technicians spend the most one-on- one time with your clients and can influence both treatment outcomes and client satisfaction.  Yet, they often have the least amount of professional training.  Let me help you achieve a top-notch support staff that knows how to skillfully communicate with an often emotionally dysregulated clientele to prevent conflict, keep clients emotionally calm and on a positive treatment trajectory outside of the clinical day.

             Increasing Client Regulation Skills

    Your Support Staff will:

    • Understand 5 States of Emotional Regulation
    • Know How to Assess Client’s Emotional State
    • Learn how to use Reflective Listening when Clients are Dysregulated
    • Learn how to Engage Cooperation without a Fight
    • Know How to Skillfully Make Requests
    • Learn How to Avoid the Disciplinary Action Trap
    • Learn How to Problem Solve with Clients
    • Learn De-escalation Skills

    Benefits:

    • Promote Client Satisfaction
    • Increase Client Retention
    • Increase Client Treatment Success
    • Provide Clients with Corrective Experiences
    • Decrease Client/Staff Conflict
    • Increase Staff Retention
    • Increase Staff Professionalism

    Also Available:

    Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Training
    • Learn “The Spirit of Motivation Interviewing”
    • Develop an Empathic and Effective Way of Relating to Clients
    • Learn the Basic MI OARS Skills
    • Practice using MI OARS Skills in Typical Scenarios with Clients
    Advancing Motivational Interviewing Skills II

    • Learn the “Stage of Change” Model
    • Learn more advanced MI Skills
    • Learn which MI skills to use at different Stages of Change
    • Advanced Practicum utilizing the skills in action.

     
TRAININGS FOR MANAGEMENT and/or CLINICIANS

Increasing Professional Interpersonal Skills:
Creating a healthy and respectful work environment is of utmost importance for the success of your treatment center.  These skills will enhance healthy and effective communication, staff satisfaction and client success!

    • Learn to use MI OARS Skills with Clients, Staff, Colleagues
    • Learn How to Engage Cooperation from Clients, Staff or Colleagues
    • Know How to Skillfully Make Requests and Share Concerns
    • Learn how to Skillfully Set Limits & Avoid Discipline
    • Learn Skillful Problem Solving

    Increasing Professional Interpersonal Skills Practicum
While easily understandable and practical, these skills take practice in order to implement them!  Now that your staff has learned these basic skills, take a day to practice them in real life scenarios that arise in treatment.  This is a fun and engaging day which will build staff cohesion and allow everyone to get experience using these skills so they are more accessible when needed.

    • Practice MI OARS Skills with clients and/or colleagues
    • Practice Engaging Cooperation
    • Practice Making Requests
    • Practice Setting Limits
    • Practice Problem Solving

    Benefits:

    • Create a Healthy Work Environment
    • Increase Client & Staff Satisfaction
    • Increase Client & Staff Retention
    • Increase Client Treatment Success

    Other Areas of Expertise for Therapeutic Development:

    • Easy and Effective Emotional Regulation Skills for Clients
    • Working with Trauma
    • Female Specific Treatment
    • Body-Centered Techniques
    • Working with Developmental Injuries
    • Developing Healthy Boundaries
    • Developing and Secure Connection to Self

    CALL TODAY TO CREATE A CUSTOM TRAINING FOR YOUR STAFF!

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    CALL TODAY TO HOST A TRAINING FOR MULTIPLE TREATMENT FACILITIES! Call Now


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