Description
With Ryan Bemis, Jay Renaud and Will Hall
This webinar is Module 3 of our Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist (ADS) training program, approved by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association, offering qualified students the chance to complete a portion of the didactic parts of this 70-hour ADS training online.
This specific course is open for anyone to take. However, if you would like to receive credit for this course to use towards your 70-hour ADS training, you will need to do the following prior to signing up for this course:
Email a resume and cover letter to crossroadsacu@gmail.com. Please include details on your professional background, your licenses as a health provider or counselor, and the location and setting you work in.
Who this course is designed for
- Acupuncturists and Acupuncture Detoxification Specialists
- Doctors, Nurses, and community health workers
- Acupuncture educators
- Administrators in hospitals, community health, and addictions programs
- Counselors, therapists, and peer-support workers
Course details
- Integration of acupuncture with other community based services
- Recovery, self-help, and harm reduction
- Science of trauma and acupuncture
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Oriental medicine theory on addictions and trauma
- Addictions, trauma, psychiatric health
- Simple screening tools for working in addictions and behavioral health
- Humanitarian aid, disaster relief
- Limitations of acupuncture and the adjunctive role in behavioral healthcare
- Stages of change
- Acupuncture within faith-based programs as part of spiritual growth, mediation and mindfulness
- Strengths and weaknesses of all approaches, theories, modalities
- History of systemic injustice and the roots of addiction
- Collaboration with other providers
- Case studies in culturally competent behavioral health and humanitarian aid programs