On-Demand Course

at your pace and convenience.

This course is approved for 3 continuing education (CE) hours. To earn CE hours, you will need to complete 1) all required course activities and 2) the course evaluation survey. A certificate of attendance will be made available on the Student Dashboard upon course completion.

What Is Included

This online training reviews core cognitive and behavioral interventions frequently used in problem gambling treatment, including tracking and intervening in gambling action cycles and exposing and challenging cognitive distortions.

  • The course includes five modules. Modules contain immersive case studies, presentations, readings, and sample worksheets that could be used in work with clients / patients.

  • You are free to take as much time as you need to review these resources. Once you have reviewed and mastered the content of each module, you will be required to pass a short quiz before proceeding to the next module. You must pass all of the quizzes before you are eligible for verification that you have successfully completed the course.

  • We suggest you take your time, view content as many times as you like, and access suggested readings and resources when possible. It is not necessary to complete the course in a single sitting. You are free to open and close the course as many times as you like.

  • This course includes videos of experienced mental health clinicians and actors portraying clients based on scripts from real sessions. This provides authenticity while protecting client privacy.

  • We ask you to have an open attitude as you go through this course. At times it may seem as if we are reviewing what you already know. However, paying close attention is likely to provide an opportunity to realize subtle differences and important nuances in problem gambling treatment and supervision. Finally, we hope you enjoy this learning format and that this course supports your many contributions to counselors, clients, and agencies.

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Who This Course Is For

Behavioral health providers across the globe, including:

  • family therapists, art therapists, mental health counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other mental health clinicians,

  • problem gambling treatment providers,

  • Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors (CADCs),

  • Certified Gamling Addiction Counselors (CGACs),

  • problem gambling treatment supervisors, and

  • prevention specialists.

Checklist

By the end of this course, you will be better prepared to:

  • identify and intervene (restructure) in cognitive distortions related to gambling;

  • track and help clients intervene in the gambling action cycle;

  • use between-session tasks to encourage awareness and change of gambling thoughts and behaviors; and

  • help clients explore and address gambling related schemas.

Instructor

Senior Instructor Teresa McDowell

Teresa McDowell, EdD, LMFT is professor emerita at Lewis & Clark, where she served as department chair and co-founded the college’s Problem Gambling Services. With over 40 years of experience as a clinician, educator, administrator, and consultant, Teresa focuses on workforce development, equity-based clinical practice, integrated treatment for problem gambling, and clinical supervision. She is a social researcher, program evaluator, and consultant with Partners in Social Research and Senior Instructor for ACORN. Dr. McDowell has authored more than 50 scholarly publications and is lead author of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Applying Third Order Thinking to Theory and Practice.

Pricing

This course is free of charge, courtesy of Oregon Health Authority, Problem Gambling Services

Course Reviews

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Shilain Patel

Learned a lot about how to to help those who suffer from gambling addiction.

Learned a lot about how to to help those who suffer from gambling addiction.

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Excellent instruction!

James Walsh

Accurate representation of CBT, expertly demonstrated!

Accurate representation of CBT, expertly demonstrated!

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Good information

Salvador Reyes

Was very informative.

Was very informative.

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Very easy to understand

Judith Nix

Relevant to my job

Relevant to my job

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Recommended

Zoe Pavlou

The seminar was helpful, informative, and left me full of knowledge and techniques that will allow me to continue my work with gamblers, as a counseling psyc...

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The seminar was helpful, informative, and left me full of knowledge and techniques that will allow me to continue my work with gamblers, as a counseling psychologist working on the recovery of gamblers.

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very informative and clear

Cheryl Petite

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very helpful information

anthony balentine

training was educational and engaging

training was educational and engaging

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Great information

Greggory Radspinner

It was very well done and the videos are very helpful.

It was very well done and the videos are very helpful.

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excellent

Donna Lepley

excellent

excellent

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Amazing

Traci Ramirez

Very well done!

Very well done!

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All was really applicable and good as well as updated inf...

Bonnie McIrvin

I really liked having the worksheets in the training as downloads.....thanks

I really liked having the worksheets in the training as downloads.....thanks

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Great teachings

Bilal Simms

If you are interested in helping those that suffer from a gambling addiction, this is fantastic.

If you are interested in helping those that suffer from a gambling addiction, this is fantastic.

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ACORN

is committed to excellence.

ACORN has been approved by the International Problem Gambling and Gaming Certification Organization (IGCCB) and the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon (MHACBO) to provide continuing education courses. Additionally, ACORN has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7274. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACORN is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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