Certified Clinical Supervisor Course Package

Counselors, clients, facilities and the public at large benefit from counselor clinical supervision. Supervision is a guarantee the best possible way forward to professional and personal development. It protects the client and community from harm and the facility from liability. This course is intended to give supervisors the necessary information to competently supervise counselor interns and other subordinates.

In the early 1970s, Congress recognized that the stigma associated with behavioral health issues (substance abuse and mental illness) and fear of prosecution deterred people from entering treatment and enacted legislation that gave patients a right to confidentiality. For the almost three decades since the Federal confidentiality regulations (42 CFR Part 2 or Part 2) were issued, confidentiality has been a cornerstone practice for behavioral healthcare programs across the country. These regulations have been updated and revised several times since 1975, to address changes in our society and technology. The most recent revision was in 2020.

Addiction, it has been said, is a condition that crosses all socioeconomic, gender, age, and cultural lines. The more we learn about addiction, the more it seems that anyone, from anywhere, regardless of their background, can fall prey to addiction. With a wider range of cultures exposed to addictive substances – and having them directly marketed to them – the concept of cultural competence becomes increasingly important. Health disparities are a BIG topic of discussion in our world, especially with the detrimental impact of COVID on specific communities of people. Addictions has experienced the consequences of health disparities long before COVID. This course is intended to get you think (and acting) about what we can do has healers in bringing about health PARITY. Inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility are important for the safety of our client/patients and facilitate the delivery of competent, compassionate, meaningful care.

This is an elective course for all employees and managers. This course focuses on communication, managing challenging workplace situations and dealing with negative employees or coworkers.

You will become familiar with a Code of Ethics for addiction professionals and learn how values, coupled with ethics, will assist in ethical and effective decision making. In the span of your career, you will be presented with ethical dilemmas and encounter obstacles to ethical decision making. This course will review what you may already know and prepare you for decisions you have yet to make. Additionally, professional boundaries, when not observed, do not keep the best interest of the participants first and foremost. Ethics, values and professional boundaries come together to provide the best and most ethical care for the participants of our addiction treatment programs.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1996 as an attempt at incremental healthcare reform. HIPAA's intent was to reform the healthcare industry by reducing costs, simplifying administrative processes and burdens, and improving the privacy and security of patients' health information. Today HIPAA compliance mainly revolves around the last item: protecting the privacy and security of patients' health information.

BHC Training has prepared these training materials based on the minimum human resources standards for businesses in Texas. This training is meant to provide a basic overview of the minim legal standards and best practice for managers and administrators for business in Texas. Many of these standards are federal regulations and apply to business in other states as well. Please check your state and local business code for additional information.

This course address setting limits and boundaries with co-workers and other professional colleagues.

This is a video-based course and includes presentations by leading trauma experts in behavioral healthcare. The following videos include an overview of trauma informed supervision, a detail trauma informed supervision webinar and examples of trauma informed clinical supervision. The total time for all three videos is 2.5 hours.

This presentation identifies and provides implementation strategy for the core competencies of addiction treatment program operation, thereby empowering addiction treatment providers with clear direction for the proficient and ethical delivery of addiction treatment services.

General overview of program evaluation. Program evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using data to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of programs and, as importantly, to contribute to continuous program improvement.

Cultural Humility is a personal lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique whereby the individual not only learns about another's culture, but one starts with an examination of her/his own beliefs and cultural identities. This short documentary visits the idea of cultural humility.