The Professionals in Residence program offers an intensive experience that lets participants interact on a primary rehabilitation unit with patients and a seasoned, multidisciplinary staff. The Family Program for Professionals offers firsthand experience working with the Family Center staff in goal-setting, group meetings, peer group discussion, and lectures, and provides participants with an understanding of Hazeldens family program methods and philosophy. The Family Program for Professionals is also endorsed for 35 clock hours by the Minnesota Board of marriage and Family Therapy. The Professional in Residence Program for the Spiritual Care Provider offers an intensive classroom and experiential training related to chemical abuse issues with an emphasis on the spiritual aspects of assessment, treatment, and ongoing support, as well as the experiential component on a primary rehabilitation unit observing therapy groups, grief groups, lectures, peer groups, unit staff meetings, treatment plan meetings, and meetings with spiritual care staff. This program is offered twice a year in June and October at the Center City campus of Hazelden.
Financial aid is available.
The program is designed primarily for physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists. However, other professionals including nurses, attorneys, EAPs and judges can benefit from participating in this program. Participants experience the multi-disciplinary team treatment process. The program offers a wide variety of more than 400 hours of course work designed to help students learn basic and specialty skills in chemical dependency counseling. Courses are open to all individuals interested in learning more about chemical dependency.