On-Demand Course

at your pace and convenience.

This course is approved for 2 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 on-demand, online training offers an overview of the role of psychoeducation in problem gambling treatment, including group, individual, and family sessions.

  • The course includes four modules. Presentations, readings, and sample handouts/worksheets are provided within the modules.

  • You are free to take as much time as you need to review these resources. Once you have reviewed and mastered the content of a 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.

  • 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.

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.

Learning Objectives

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

  • plan and facilitate problem gambling treatment psychoeducation groups;

  • integrate psychoeducation into treatment sessions; and

  • identify and offer clients and their families additional educational information and resources.

Instructors

OHA Instructor Brandie Lyday

Brandie Lyday, MA, LMFT, CGAC II, CADC III owns and manages True Heart Therapy, a mental health group practice. She is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and serves as adjunct faculty providing family therapy supervision for Lewis & Clark’s Problem Gambling Services. Brandie previously worked as an Oregon Health Authority Problem Gambling Treatment Program Development Analyst and has extensive experience as an outpatient addiction treatment specialist, delivering individual, group, couple, and family therapies, including work with clients involved in the criminal legal system.

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

5 star rating

Useful material

Zoe Pavlou

I am thankful for the useful material. It was a great course.

I am thankful for the useful material. It was a great course.

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4 star rating

informative and practical

Sarah Burgess

client appropriate and easy to use

client appropriate and easy to use

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5 star rating

Useful material

Zoe Pavlou

I am thankful for the useful material. It was a great course.

I am thankful for the useful material. It was a great course.

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4 star rating

problem gambling tretment psycheducation

Anibal Galarza

all good

all good

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5 star rating

Good

celeste lakey

Good

5 star rating

Very educational

Joshua Boyd

5 star rating

The video on psychoeducation was very helpful and educati...

Rene Breedlove

Easy to maneuver and well structured.

Easy to maneuver and well structured.

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4 star rating

An amazing course for counselors

Angria Bassett

I have worked within the addiction recovery milieu for decades and have recently certified in Problem Gambling. This course will complement your prior knowle...

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I have worked within the addiction recovery milieu for decades and have recently certified in Problem Gambling. This course will complement your prior knowledge and add current reseach and provides practical tools . I would encourage every counselor to take this free course.

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5 star rating

5 Stars

Angela Bekederemo

A very interesting course. Thank you.

A very interesting course. Thank you.

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5 star rating

Excellent training!

Linda Moore

Very comprehensive and useful. I am so very glad for this training and the resources I can use with my clients.

Very comprehensive and useful. I am so very glad for this training and the resources I can use with my clients.

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ACORN

is committed to excellence.

ACORN has been approved by the International Problem Gambling and Gaming Certification Organization (IPGGC) 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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