Course Description:
Sponsored by Transformations Enterprises, this new 15-hour course
helps counselors in Illinois learn skills specifically designed to help teenage
clients overcome excessive anger, the number one trigger for relapse among
teens recovering from chemical dependency. Upon completion of the course,
counselors will be able to help teens learn how they can stop the violence
once and for all.
The Content of the Course: This course provides chemical dependency
counselors with new skills, and will empower them to show teen clients how
to:
- Complete an honest self-assessment of their anger problem.
- Identify anger as a problem and discover how they learned their anger
pattern.
- Recognize how they have used anger like a drug, in order to feel powerful.
- Find new non-violent ways to experience personal power.
- Learn to change abusive and violent behaviors.
- Set and achieve meaningful goals.
- Begin to reorganize their values to support a non-violent lifestyle.
- Identify and change negative attitudes and beliefs about themselves
and others.
- Avoid relapsing back into violent behavior, and back into active chemical
use following treatment.
- Develop a personal mission statement as an anchor for a non-violent
chemical-free lifestyle.
How to complete the course: Finish at your own pace!
- Read the workbook and finish the exercises.
- Return workbook to Transformations Enterprises.
- Transformations Enterprises reviews your work immediately upon receipt,
and sends back your workbook and certificate of completion by return mail.
Course materials: Managing Teen Anger and Violence workbook by William
Fleeman (Impact Publications, 2008)
States which have approved this course:
- California
- Illinois
- Michigan
- New York
- Ohio
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