Online Learning on Addictions by NATI

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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