Gambling Specialist Pre-Certification Course
Integrated Technology Course (online & on-campus)
 Integrating the latest evidence-based practice, this course is designed specifically for behavioral health professionals interested in this important area of addiction specialization. The course leads towards fulfilling the gambling specific education requirements of Oregon’s CGAC (Certified Gambling Addictions Counselor).
This course will address the following problem gambling specific education areas:
- Definitions of gambling and problem gambling
- Prevalence of problem and pathological gambling
- Specific subgroups of problem gambling including: youth, college students, women, minorities, and the elderly
- Oregon’s problem gambling treatment system
Along with the above coursework we will address the following categories:
- Assessment and intake of the gambling client
- Financial planning and budgeting for the gambler and significant other
- Gambling counseling for individual
- Gambling counseling for group, and family
- Gambling case management
- Ethics and professional responsibility
- Crisis intervention for gamblers and significant others
- Co-occurring disorders with problem/pathological gamblers
Requirements
This on-line course will require that the participants have a high speed computer and access to high speed internet service (since we will be using video clips). As well as having beginning computer and internet skills.
Class Full 10 week course; 2 classroom sessions (1st and last sessions) on the LC campus and 8 online training modules
Dates: March 14th - May 16th
Time: 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (for the 2 on-campus meetings; 1st and last meeting)
Location: Online/Lewis & Clark, Rogers Hall, Room 105
Instructor: Tom Ten Eyck, M.A., CADAC-II, CGAC
Non-credit or PDU/CEU: 30 hours, $195
Gambling Counseling Registration (PDF)
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