Online Learning on Addictions by NATI

Discuss the importance of the winning phase in the progression of a gambling disorder.
Identify three signs of the desperation phase.
Integrate the concept of 'the bailout' into a treatment plan for a disordered gambling client.
Recognize the critical component of ‘avoidance’ in the recognition and treatment of disordered gambling.
Identify maladaptive behavior and thinking as it relates to the addiction process.
Differentiate between the motives for gambling among different gambler types.
Identify the various types of gamblers.
Identify your own belief system about winning as it relates to superstition and magical thinking.
Describe how the cognitive development of an individual aids in the development of a gambling disorder.
Explain the feature, ‘poor problem solving skills’ in the development of disordered gambling.
Explore their personal value system as it relates to gambling.
Identify how low self-esteem may be considered a core feature of a gambling disordered client.
Compare the relationship between impulsiveness and avoidance in the development of disordered gambling.
Integrate the underlying personality dynamics in assessing disordered gambling.
Explain the importance of looking at the entire psychosocial environment when assessing disordered gambling.
Identify two models for understanding the functioning of the gambler.
Identify methods for assessing the gambler, and list the major assessment tools.
Complete an initial assessment and formal diagnosis of a disordered gambler.
Demonstrate how DSM-5 Criteria and GA Twenty Questions are used in diagnosis.
Differentiate between other disorders and disordered gambling.
Discuss the five stages of the grieving process.
Integrate the concept of unresolved grief into your understanding of the development of a gambling disorder.
Assess the concept of substitute satisfaction and its role in the development of the gambling disorder.
Describe the phases of the Miller Treatment Model.
Critique the importance of this model in the treatment of a disordered gambler.
Apply this concept to a disordered gambling case.
Identify specific learning interventions for disordered gamblers in a treatment setting.
Develop a therapeutic cognitive approach in dealing with a disordered gambler.
Identify significant psychological factors in the development of a gambling disorder.
Integrate working treatment plan skills.
Restate the rationale for avoiding discussions about gambling, e.g. the odds of winning, in a treatment setting.
List four elements that identify improved problem solving skills for disordered gamblers.
Examine the role that unmet needs and substitute satisfaction play in the disordered gambling client's life.
Trace the gambler's unresolved grief episodes to the development of a gambling disorder.
Identify three early family history patterns and examine their relationship to the gambling disorder.
Trace the gambler's cycle of rebellion, guilt & shame and conformity.
Describe the 'Teflon' phase and the 'Velcro' phase of rebellion & conformity in a disordered gambling client.
List the goals of the Rebellion Stage & Conformity Stage.
Identify seven elements of the gambler's dissociative experience.
List six signs of a pleasure experience.
Restate two core factors leading to disordered gambling.
Identify four hazards to functioning for the disordered gambler.
Explain the recommended treatment interventions based on strengths and needs in the area of personal, interpersonal, vocational, financial, and legal.
Diagram the significant stress source in the client's life and the implications for treatment.
Identify behaviors and patterns evidenced during the Assessment & Diagnosis: Advanced Questionnaire
Utilize articles to summarize legal thinking on disordered gambling sentencing.
State impressions of client drawn from the House-Tree-Person projective test.
Examine significant experiences related to money.
Apply attitudes and feelings about money related to treatment of disordered gambling client.
Apply attitudes to counseling practice with disordered gambling clients.
Identify the two reasons for the client's distressing affect.
Discuss the importance of isolation of affect.
List five personality vulnerabilities in this type of gambler.
List eight thinking patterns the gambler uses to deny reality.
Explain three reasons why ’affect’ is distressing to the disordered gambler.
Analyze the active/passive dimension of the psychodynamic concepts of the disordered gambler.
Assess the roles of physical reality and emotional reality in the understanding and treatment of the impulsive disordered client.
Identify two crucial capacities an individual should develop in attain maturity.
Recall three elements of the ‘Impulsive Style’.

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