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 focuses on emotion, mindfulness, and values in problem gambling treatment.

  • The course includes four modules. Modules contain immersive case studies, presentations, and readings.

  • 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.

Learning Objectives

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

  • identify the role of emotions and emotional regulation in problem gambling treatment;

  • engage clients in mindfulness activities; and

  • help clients identify and commit to what they most value to encourage problem gambling recovery.

Instructors

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.

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.

Pricing

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

Course Reviews

5 star rating

Very Satisfied

Zoe Pavlou

I am very satisfied on every level, as a Counselling Psychologist working with gamblers. This course is very helpful for me so i could help them.

I am very satisfied on every level, as a Counselling Psychologist working with gamblers. This course is very helpful for me so i could help them.

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Amazing

EZINNE KIM BOARDMAN

I learnt a lot and it refreshed my memory

I learnt a lot and it refreshed my memory

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Engaging and helpful for clients and clinicians

Kerry Ropte

Engaging and helpful for clients and clinicians

Engaging and helpful for clients and clinicians

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Very educational

Joshua Boyd

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Informative

Jason Brooks

5 star rating

very important

Rica Ottenbreit

very helpful to my job

very helpful to my job

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This was a great experience.

Glenda Lewis

Lots of reading, but watching the interactions was worth it.

Lots of reading, but watching the interactions was worth it.

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Good

Reeve Lewis

Dood

4 star rating

Great!

Adrienne Wicker

Learned many things I will be able to use with my clients.

Learned many things I will be able to use with my clients.

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Helpful

Windy Clevenger

thank you

thank you

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Excellent

Lisa Knudsen

Very useful

Very useful

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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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