This is a live interactive training facilitated through a video/web conferencing platform. 

About the 3-Day Denial Management Counseling Training

Denial is a serious problem in the treatment of addiction and coexisting personality and mental disorders.  This course will present an overview of a comprehensive clinical system for managing denial and creating intrinsic motivation for treatment. 

The 3-Day Denial Management Counseling (DMC) Training instructs clinicians/counselors on the methods they can teach clients to identify and manage the denial patterns they use that prevent them from getting help for their substance use disorder. This includes the Denial Management Interaction Process, Denial Pattern Identification and Management, Presenting Problems and Denial, Brief Life and Addiction History Denial, Addiction Symptom Review, and Self-Evaluation Skills. 

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to deal more effectively with clients exhibiting severe denial and treatment resistance.

Training participants will be able to explain the philosophy of denial and denial management that forms the basis of Denial Management Counseling (DMC).

Training participants will be able to explain the general steps of the DMC Interactional Process designed to manage denial in here-and-now interactions with clients. 

Training participants will learn how to directly deal with the twelve most common denial patterns used by addicted clients.

Training participants will learn how to implement a treatment plan for teaching client’s denial self-management training in individual, group, or psychoeducation sessions.

This training is instructor-led with most time requiring participants to be actively engaged. Training methods include brief lectures, clinical demonstrations, small group exercises, role play, and large group discussions. Training participants will leave the training with several clinical skills that can be used in their practice immediately.

Training Days/Times

Thursday and Friday - The training will be conducted from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, with an hour break for lunch and a 15-minute break each morning and afternoon.
Saturday: The training will be conducted from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, with a 30-minute break for lunch and a 15-minute break in the morning.

Continuing Education
For our 3-day Training Program, participants who attend all 3 days will receive 20 CE credit hours and a Certificate of Completion. Please note, participants must be present for the entire training to receive the education credits and certificate of participation.

Certified Denial Management Specialist (CDMS) – About Certification

This training provides the classroom hours needed to receive competency certification from CENAPS. After attending, participants have the option to complete the corresponding Competency Certification Portfolio, which must be reviewed and approved by CENAPS to receive credentials. This requires an additional $150.00 for the portfolio review.

Full Details at: https://www.cenaps.com/details

2022 Virtual Advanced Relapse Prevention Therapy Certification Training
An Evidence-Based Advanced Clinical Skills Workshop

October 24-28, 2022 (Eastern Time)

This is a live interactive training facilitated through a video/web conferencing platform.

Instructed by the CENAPS Corporation :
Director of Training – Roland Williams, MA, MAC, LAADC, NCACII, CADCII, ACRPS, SAP
Faculty Trainer- Alana Van Zanten, MA, LMFT, APCC, LAADC-S, CADCII, ACRPS

Register online through www.gorskibooks.com. Your registration information is submitted to CENAPS at time of payment.

The cost of the Relapse Prevention Therapy Certification School is $795.00

The workshop will be conducted at 8:30 am – 5:00 pm on the first day. The remaining four (4) days are conducted from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm in the time zone indicated for the training week.

There are 3 breaks per day – 30 minutes each morning and afternoon, and 90 minutes for lunch. There are 44 CEU’s awarded at the completion of the workshop as well as the option by completing the portfolio for certification to be a Gorski Relapse Prevention Specialist.

We will be sending the training manual, workbook, warning sign cards after receiving payment as well as paper confirmation of the online platform. An electronic link will be sent prior to the start of the course.

About Relapse Prevention Therapy:

Over the past 40 years research has clearly shown that relapse is a process that begins long before recovering people start using alcohol or other drugs. Alcohol and drug use do not mark the beginning of the relapse process—it is the final stage.

Terence T. Gorski developed the Relapse Prevention Therapy Training to address the relapse process.

Participants will be challenged to take your current clinical skills and integrate them with new and powerful approaches for teaching clients to identify and manage high risk situations and core personality and life-style warning sign patterns that lead to relapse in the critical early stages of the recovery process.

The training methods will consist of:

(1) Brief Lectures
(2) Clinical Demonstrations of Critical RPT Exercises,
(3) Small Group Exercises,
(4) Role Play Experiences to practice and receive feedback on key RPT exercises, and
(5) Large group discussions

2021 Virtual Advanced Relapse Prevention Therapy Certification Training
An Evidence-Based Advanced Clinical Skills Workshop

October 25-29, 2021 (Eastern Time)

This is a live interactive training facilitated through a video/web conferencing platform.

Instructed by the CENAPS Corporation :
Director of Training – Roland Williams, MA, MAC, LAADC, NCACII, CADCII, ACRPS, SAP
Faculty Trainer- Alana Van Zanten, MA, LMFT, APCC, LAADC-S, CADCII, ACRPS

Register online through www.gorskibooks.com. Your registration information is submitted to CENAPS at time of payment.

The cost of the Relapse Prevention Therapy Certification School is $795.00

The workshop will be conducted at 8:30 am – 5:00 pm on the first day. The remaining four (4) days are conducted from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm in the time zone indicated for the training week.

There are 3 breaks per day – 30 minutes each morning and afternoon, and 90 minutes for lunch. There are 44 CEU’s awarded at the completion of the workshop as well as the option by completing the portfolio for certification to be a Gorski Relapse Prevention Specialist.

We will be sending the training manual, workbook, warning sign cards after receiving payment as well as paper confirmation of the online platform. An electronic link will be sent prior to the start of the course.

About Relapse Prevention Therapy:

Over the past 40 years research has clearly shown that relapse is a process that begins long before recovering people start using alcohol or other drugs. Alcohol and drug use do not mark the beginning of the relapse process—it is the final stage.

Terence T. Gorski developed the Relapse Prevention Therapy Training to address the relapse process.

Participants will be challenged to take your current clinical skills and integrate them with new and powerful approaches for teaching clients to identify and manage high risk situations and core personality and life-style warning sign patterns that lead to relapse in the critical early stages of the recovery process.

The training methods will consist of:

(1) Brief Lectures
(2) Clinical Demonstrations of Critical RPT Exercises,
(3) Small Group Exercises,
(4) Role Play Experiences to practice and receive feedback on key RPT exercises, and
(5) Large group discussions