The Recovery Coach’s toolbox contains many useful techniques and skills designed to assist the client’s recovery process. The more often you oil and sharpen your coaching tools, the better they will serve both you and your clients.

Electronic Coaching, or eCoaching, is the wave of the future in Recovery Coaching. Advancements in technology now allow people to communicate in ways never thought possible just a few years ago. It’s both simple and affordable for most everyone to talk face-to-face over a computer using Skype or similar video chat software programs, and it’s equally easy and convenient to communicate via e-mail or text messages using a smartphone or other internet-enabled portable device. With each new day, more and more treatment centers, Recovery Coaches and counseling professionals are adding online and/or electronic access for their clients.

Advocacy meets clients and families where they work, live and interact with others – in their own backyards, so to speak - and recognizes that every client’s needs are individual and unique.

Explore the importance of culture and how it applies to coaching.

• The Principles of Case Management.
• Client Assistance with Healthcare System Navigation.
• Disengagement.

• Circumstances Leading To Crises.
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention.
• Techniques To Calm A Client In A Crisis Situation.

• A Brief Overview of Addictions.
• Signs and Symptoms of Addiction.
• Stages of Recovery.

• A Working Definition.
• The Model.
• Working with the Model.

• An Introduction to the Basics of Pharmacology and Substance Abuse.
• Mood Altering Drugs and Their Classifications.
• Drug Interactions.
• Empowering Clients to Understand Drugs and Their Implications.

The Recovery Coach’s main goal is to empower clients by focusing on their strengths, rather than their weaknesses. The Coach and client work together to identify the client’s interests, skills, talents and other strengths and use these assets to help the client achieve his or her goals. Although the Coach assists the client in identifying goals, it is the client that chooses them, based on their individual needs and desires.

This module provides a brief overview of Recovery Coaching, including the coach's role in working with clients, comparisons of other treatment providers, tips to promote your coaching services, and an introduction to other topics that will be discussed in later modules. Upon completion of this course, you will have all the tools needed to work effectively with clients in need of recovery coaching services. Recent trends suggest that the demand for trained, qualified Recovery Coaches will continue to increase at a rapid rate in the future. We welcome you to your new, exciting career as a trained, professional Recovery Coach.

The Learning Objectives: 

• Explain and use the model for resolution of ethical issues
• Identify and explain the concepts of respect for others and non-discrimination in practice and behavior
• Describe the issues involved in the maintenance of professional boundaries as it relates to properly ending the coaching relationship
• Develop and describe a program of self-care
• Explain and apply the proper boundaries and guidelines within the scope of your training
• Integrate recovery coaching into the continuum of care/working with professionals

• Identify and apply proper techniques in provision of and billing for services
• Recognize the boundaries of proper interactions with others
• Demonstrate the ability to avoid collusion and any improprieties in professional service or contracting with referral sources
• Engage in professionally appropriate marketing and advertising of services

• The Definition of Ethics in Recovery.
• The Four Positive Elements of Recovery Coaching.
• The Values of Recovery Coaching.
• Modern Communications and Ethical Behavior.
• Definition of Telehealth Services and the Ethics of Provision.
• Understanding Your Area of Expertise.

Each professional association has published a Code of Ethics. The National Association of Social Workers, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the American Psychological Association, the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors and the American Counseling Association have all published Codes of Ethics unique to the professions that they serve. In addition, various states have published their own Codes of Ethics, applicable to licensed individuals practicing within their state.

People struggling with both substance abuse issues and mental illness are classified as having a dual diagnosis. Clients diagnosed with dual diagnosis issues can be notoriously difficult to treat because symptoms of each condition tend to overlap and impact on one other. Mental health treatment providers often aren’t equipped deal with substance abuse issues, while addiction treatment centers often refuse to accept clients with severe mental health issues. Treatment methods prescribed for mental health and substance abuse issues can be quite different from one another, although both are critical to the client’s recovery. As a trained recovery coach, you will often act as a bridge for your clients, assisting them to connect with both mental health and addiction recovery services.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines resilience as:
1. The capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress;
2. An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.

Although the first definition applies to materials, such as a memory foam mattress, for example, the same principle applies to people. Resilience means to return to a normal, original state, whether it applies to mattresses or human beings.

• The Definition of Ethics in Recovery.
• The Four Positive Elements of Recovery Coaching.
• The Values of Recovery Coaching.
• Modern Communications and Ethical Behavior.
• Definition of Telehealth Services and the Ethics of Provision.
• Understanding Your Area of Expertise.

• The Basics of Self-Care.
• Self Empowerment.
• Accessing Resources.

• Circumstances Leading To Crises.
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention.
• Techniques To Calm A Client In A Crisis Situation.

The Signs & Symptoms of Domestic Violence & Abuse.

• Accepted Interventions.
• Harm Reduction Philosophy & Strategies.
• The Duluth Model of Power & Control.

• What Is HIPAA?
• HIPAA and the Work of a Recovery Coach.

• Effective Coping Skills.
• Social Skills | Developing a Social Network.
• Developing Leisure and Recreational Activities.
• Living a Healthy Lifestyle.

• A Working Definition.
• The Model.
• Working with the Model.

• An Introduction to the Basics of Pharmacology and Substance Abuse.
• Mood Altering Drugs and Their Classifications.
• Drug Interactions.
• Empowering Clients to Understand Drugs and Their Implications.

• Strength Based Model of Care.
• Understanding the Importance of Long-Term Management.
• Care Coordination.

• Relapse Prevention.
• The Signs and Symptoms Of Relapse | Proper Intervention.
• Create an Effective Relapse Prevention Plan.

• What Happens Upon Termination of the Professional Relationship?
• Dealing with Being Discharged.
• A Good Discharge Plan.
• Resources to Use.

• What is a Social Support System?
• Empower a Client to Create Their Own Social Support Network.

• A Brief Overview of Addictions.
• Signs and Symptoms of Addiction.
• Stages of Recovery.

• The Principles of Case Management.
• Client Assistance with Healthcare System Navigation.
• Disengagement.

The Recovery Coach’s toolbox contains many useful techniques and skills designed to assist the client’s recovery process. The more often you oil and sharpen your coaching tools, the better they will serve both you and your clients.

This module provides a brief overview of Recovery Coaching, including the coach's role in working with clients, comparisons of other treatment providers, tips to promote your coaching services, and an introduction to other topics that will be discussed in later modules. Upon completion of this course, you will have all the tools needed to work effectively with clients in need of recovery coaching services. Recent trends suggest that the demand for trained, qualified Recovery Coaches will continue to increase at a rapid rate in the future. We welcome you to your new, exciting career as a trained, professional Recovery Coach.

The Recovery Coach’s main goal is to empower clients by focusing on their strengths, rather than their weaknesses. The Coach and client work together to identify the client’s interests, skills, talents and other strengths and use these assets to help the client achieve his or her goals. Although the Coach assists the client in identifying goals, it is the client that chooses them, based on their individual needs and desires.

Each professional association has published a Code of Ethics. The National Association of Social Workers, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the American Psychological Association, the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors and the American Counseling Association have all published Codes of Ethics unique to the professions that they serve. In addition, various states have published their own Codes of Ethics, applicable to licensed individuals practicing within their state.

Electronic Coaching, or eCoaching, is the wave of the future in Recovery Coaching. Advancements in technology now allow people to communicate in ways never thought possible just a few years ago. It’s both simple and affordable for most everyone to talk face-to-face over a computer using Skype or similar video chat software programs, and it’s equally easy and convenient to communicate via e-mail or text messages using a smartphone or other internet-enabled portable device. With each new day, more and more treatment centers, Recovery Coaches and counseling professionals are adding online and/or electronic access for their clients.

Action Plans And Goal Setting Skills from ccsadmin

Every long distance truck driver understands the importance of setting goals on a daily basis. For example, a driver traveling from Missouri to Wisconsin must not only use a map to plan his route, but also realizes he will pass through Chicago along the way. If the driver is wise, he’ll avoid driving through downtown Chicago during rush hour and plan accordingly. If not, he’ll be stuck in traffic for hours, wasting valuable time and fuel. As a trained Recovery Coach, you will do much the same, using an Action Plan based on setting small, easily achievable goals and removing barriers blocking the client’s path to recovery.

Advocacy meets clients and families where they work, live and interact with others – in their own backyards, so to speak - and recognizes that every client’s needs are individual and unique.

Explore the importance of culture and how it applies to coaching.

People struggling with both substance abuse issues and mental illness are classified as having a dual diagnosis. Clients diagnosed with dual diagnosis issues can be notoriously difficult to treat because symptoms of each condition tend to overlap and impact on one other. Mental health treatment providers often aren’t equipped deal with substance abuse issues, while addiction treatment centers often refuse to accept clients with severe mental health issues. Treatment methods prescribed for mental health and substance abuse issues can be quite different from one another, although both are critical to the client’s recovery. As a trained recovery coach, you will often act as a bridge for your clients, assisting them to connect with both mental health and addiction recovery services.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines resilience as:
1. The capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress;
2. An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.

Although the first definition applies to materials, such as a memory foam mattress, for example, the same principle applies to people. Resilience means to return to a normal, original state, whether it applies to mattresses or human beings.

"Wraparound" may sound like a new concept, but it is not. The term "wraparound" came into use in 1986, in an article by Lenore Behar*. She defined "wraparound" as a way to "surround multi-problem youngsters and families with services, rather than with institutional walls, and to customize these services." Also called "holistic," "strengths based" or "individualized," the "wraparound" approach is more a process than a service.

In 2006, state-funded recovery high schools for students with substance use disorders opened in three Massachusetts cities — Springfield, Beverly, and Boston. Designed to reduce the risks of relapse, these schools aim to provide education only to students who are in recovery. As of 2011, at least twenty more recovery high schools have opened their doors across the United States. * Imagine the impact there would be if every school around the world were to add addiction prevention classes as a required course of study before the early adolescence, which is the time children are most likely to experiment with alcohol and drugs.

• The Definition of Ethics in Recovery.
• The Four Positive Elements of Recovery Coaching.
• The Values of Recovery Coaching.
• Modern Communications and Ethical Behavior.
• Definition of Telehealth Services and the Ethics of Provision.
• Understanding Your Area of Expertise.

• The Basics of Self-Care.
• Self Empowerment.
• Accessing Resources.

• The Principles of Case Management.
• Client Assistance with Healthcare System Navigation.
• Disengagement.

• Circumstances Leading To Crises.
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention.
• Techniques To Calm A Client In A Crisis Situation.

The Signs & Symptoms of Domestic Violence & Abuse.

• Accepted Interventions.
• Harm Reduction Philosophy & Strategies.
• The Duluth Model of Power & Control.

• Effective Coping Skills.
• Social Skills | Developing a Social Network.
• Developing Leisure and Recreational Activities.
• Living a Healthy Lifestyle.

• A Working Definition.
• The Model.
• Working with the Model.

• An Introduction to the Basics of Pharmacology and Substance Abuse.
• Mood Altering Drugs and Their Classifications.
• Drug Interactions.
• Empowering Clients to Understand Drugs and Their Implications.

• Strength Based Model of Care.
• Understanding the Importance of Long-Term Management.
• Care Coordination.

• Relapse Prevention.
• The Signs and Symptoms Of Relapse | Proper Intervention.
• Create an Effective Relapse Prevention Plan.

• What Happens Upon Termination of the Professional Relationship?
• Dealing with Being Discharged.
• A Good Discharge Plan.
• Resources to Use.

• What is a Social Support System?
• Empower a Client to Create Their Own Social Support Network.

• A Brief Overview of Addictions.
• Signs and Symptoms of Addiction.
• Stages of Recovery.

• What Is HIPAA?
• HIPAA and the Work of a Recovery Coach.

The Recovery Coach’s toolbox contains many useful techniques and skills designed to assist the client’s recovery process. The more often you oil and sharpen your coaching tools, the better they will serve both you and your clients.

The Recovery Coach’s main goal is to empower clients by focusing on their strengths, rather than their weaknesses. The Coach and client work together to identify the client’s interests, skills, talents and other strengths and use these assets to help the client achieve his or her goals. Although the Coach assists the client in identifying goals, it is the client that chooses them, based on their individual needs and desires.

Each professional association has published a Code of Ethics. The National Association of Social Workers, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the American Psychological Association, the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors and the American Counseling Association have all published Codes of Ethics unique to the professions that they serve. In addition, various states have published their own Codes of Ethics, applicable to licensed individuals practicing within their state.

Electronic Coaching, or eCoaching, is the wave of the future in Recovery Coaching. Advancements in technology now allow people to communicate in ways never thought possible just a few years ago. It’s both simple and affordable for most everyone to talk face-to-face over a computer using Skype or similar video chat software programs, and it’s equally easy and convenient to communicate via e-mail or text messages using a smartphone or other internet-enabled portable device. With each new day, more and more treatment centers, Recovery Coaches and counseling professionals are adding online and/or electronic access for their clients.

Action Plans And Goal Setting Skills from ccsadmin

Every long distance truck driver understands the importance of setting goals on a daily basis. For example, a driver traveling from Missouri to Wisconsin must not only use a map to plan his route, but also realizes he will pass through Chicago along the way. If the driver is wise, he’ll avoid driving through downtown Chicago during rush hour and plan accordingly. If not, he’ll be stuck in traffic for hours, wasting valuable time and fuel. As a trained Recovery Coach, you will do much the same, using an Action Plan based on setting small, easily achievable goals and removing barriers blocking the client’s path to recovery.

Advocacy meets clients and families where they work, live and interact with others – in their own backyards, so to speak - and recognizes that every client’s needs are individual and unique.

Explore the importance of culture and how it applies to coaching.

People struggling with both substance abuse issues and mental illness are classified as having a dual diagnosis. Clients diagnosed with dual diagnosis issues can be notoriously difficult to treat because symptoms of each condition tend to overlap and impact on one other. Mental health treatment providers often aren’t equipped deal with substance abuse issues, while addiction treatment centers often refuse to accept clients with severe mental health issues. Treatment methods prescribed for mental health and substance abuse issues can be quite different from one another, although both are critical to the client’s recovery. As a trained recovery coach, you will often act as a bridge for your clients, assisting them to connect with both mental health and addiction recovery services.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines resilience as:
1. The capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress;
2. An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.

Although the first definition applies to materials, such as a memory foam mattress, for example, the same principle applies to people. Resilience means to return to a normal, original state, whether it applies to mattresses or human beings.

"Wraparound" may sound like a new concept, but it is not. The term "wraparound" came into use in 1986, in an article by Lenore Behar*. She defined "wraparound" as a way to "surround multi-problem youngsters and families with services, rather than with institutional walls, and to customize these services." Also called "holistic," "strengths based" or "individualized," the "wraparound" approach is more a process than a service.

In 2006, state-funded recovery high schools for students with substance use disorders opened in three Massachusetts cities — Springfield, Beverly, and Boston. Designed to reduce the risks of relapse, these schools aim to provide education only to students who are in recovery. As of 2011, at least twenty more recovery high schools have opened their doors across the United States. * Imagine the impact there would be if every school around the world were to add addiction prevention classes as a required course of study before the early adolescence, which is the time children are most likely to experiment with alcohol and drugs.

This module provides a brief overview of Recovery Coaching, including the coach's role in working with clients, comparisons of other treatment providers, tips to promote your coaching services, and an introduction to other topics that will be discussed in later modules. Upon completion of this course, you will have all the tools needed to work effectively with clients in need of recovery coaching services. Recent trends suggest that the demand for trained, qualified Recovery Coaches will continue to increase at a rapid rate in the future. We welcome you to your new, exciting career as a trained, professional Recovery Coach.

The Learning Objectives:

• Define what it means to be a Forensic Peer Specialist.
• To recognize and recall the core competencies of Forensic Peer Support Specialists who work with the forensic population and people who cope with mental illness.
• To identify the core competences to attain the National Certified Peer Specialist credential.
• To distinguish the different steps and detect the gaps that need to be filled in the Sequential Intercept Model.

The Learning Objectives

• To understand and become familiar with the continuum of Forensic Peer interventions. 
• To understand how to Empower Clients to Negotiate and Minimize Criminal Sanctions.
• To understand how clients can advocate for themselves. 
• To identify strategies for educating stakeholders in the community.
• To develop and use tools and strategies to overcome the obstacles of the criminal justice system.

The Learning Objectives:

• To define advocacy in a clinical setting
  
   
• Understand the coach’s role as an individual and community advocate
  
   
• Develop collaborative abilities in order to sustain an appropriate relationship with one’s clients
  
   
• Analyze and Understand the meaning of advocacy
  
   
• Teach one’s clients to develop skills in self-advocacy
  
   

Empower one’s clients to use appropriate methods in self-advocacy

The Learning Objectives:

• To identify the barriers to housing for people in the forensic population.
  
   
• To identify the barriers to employment for people in the forensic population. 
  
   
• Resources and strategies in housing and employment for people in the forensic population.

The Learning Objectives:

• To understand the Forensic Peer’s role in inspiring hope and change.
• To understand the concepts of hope and change as they relate to people in the forensic community.
• To develop tools and strategies to work with clients from the forensics community.

The Learning Objectives:

• Identify the skills needed to apply goal-setting steps in each of the five Life-Spheres.

• Learn to apply online training in “real life” when dealing with actual clients in a professional setting.

• Develop and increase your skill levels in the following areas -motivational interviewing, intense listening, advanced communication and assessment techniques.

• Learn to apply coaching skills learned in this course and apply them to your client work.

• How to apply coaching skills learned in this course to eCoaching with your clients.

The Learning Objectives:

• To understand how lifestyle choices impact upon a person’s long-term commitment to recovery. 
• To understand how lifestyle choices impact upon a person’s mental health and coping with mental illness. 
• To identify strategies for making positive lifestyle choices to support a client’s long-term commitment to recovery and mental health. 
• To develop and use tools and strategies with one’s lifestyle that support relapse prevention. 
• To understand and become familiar with the continuum of criminal justice involvement.

A Working Definition[1]

Motivational interviewinghas evolved to become the standard theoretical model to utilize to assist clients on their journey of change. It has become widely accepted since first introduced in 1983, proving especially productive with clients who have histories of or are actively using substances. 

[1] http://www.motivationalinterview.org/Documents/1%20A%20MI%20Definition%20Principles%20&%20Approach%20V4%20012911.pdf

One of the most important elements in the world of Forensic Peers is that of professional ethics. As a Peer, one is responsible for people who are highly vulnerable and possibly in danger of relapse.  The work of all Peers must be based in an ethical foundation. The question is: what are the ethics of a Forensic Peer and how can one adhere to them? In this course the focus will be on the following objectives: 

• A Definition of Ethics in CJS
• Modern Communications and Ethical Behavior
• Definition of Telehealth Services and the Ethics of Provision 
• Understanding Your Area of Expertise 

The Learning Objectives:

• To understand the concepts and principles of the Person-Centered Trauma Informed Approach to Care
• To understand trauma and the ways in which it impacts upon a person’s well-being
• To identify the cross-cultural issues related to trauma 
• To define the strategies of creating a ‘safe space’ in care for people in the forensic community