CE Courses for Counselors and Addiction Counselors

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First-Episode Psychosis and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders 3.5 credits

This informational resource describes research and interventions relative to young people with both substance abuse disorders and their first episode of psychosis. Research on effectiveness of interventions is included in...

Co-Occurring Disorders, Evidence Based Interventions, Young Adult

Addictions, Substance Use

Children and Adolescents

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Predictors of Future Suicide Attempt Among Adolescents With Suicidal Thoughts Or Non-suicidal Self-harm: a Population-based Birth Cohort Study 1.25 credits

Suicidal thought and non-suicidal self-harm are common in adolescents. Though both are strongly associated with suicide attempts, most adolescents who admit these indicators do not attempt suicide. This article explores...

Adolescents, Suicide

Clinical Topics & Methods

Children and Adolescents

Suicide

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

The Opioid Crisis and the Hispanic Latino Population-An Urgent Issue 1.75 credits

This course examines how the opioid crisis is impacting the Hispanic/Latino population. It includes: contextual issues related to opioid misuse and OUD in Hispanic/Latino communities, highlights of the national data,...

Evidence Based Interventions, Opioids, Cultural Adaptation, Hispanic, Prevention - Cultural Competency

Addictions, Substance Use

Cultural & Racial Diversity

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Special Issues for Women in Recovery Groups 2 credits

This material for this course examines issues pertaining to women in recovery groups. The first article tests the efficacy of the Women’s Recovery Group (WRG) vs mixed gender groups. The...

Recovery Oriented, Groups, Alcohol, 12 Step

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Family Stress Processes and Drug and Alcohol Use by Mexican American Adolescents 2 credits

This course examines the family stress model to determine economic impact on alcohol use and drug use in Mexican American. It includes; explanation and use of Family Stress Model, familism...

Adolescents, Alcohol, Hispanic

Addictions, Substance Use

Couples, Family

Cultural & Racial Diversity

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Vulnerability Or Resilience to Early Substance Use Among Adolescents At Risk-The Roles of Maltreatment and Father Involvement 1.5 credits

This course examines vulnerability vs resilience to substance use of at-risk adolescents and whether child maltreatment and father involvement are factors. It includes: child maltreatment and adolescent substance use, the...

Trauma, Adolescents, Parents

Addictions, Substance Use

Children and Adolescents

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

The Effects of Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) on Parent Substance Use and the Association Between Parent and Adolescent Substance Use 1 credit

This course examines the effects of Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) vs Treatment As Usual (TAU) on parent substance use and adolescent substance use. The authors used effectiveness research to...

Adolescents, Evidence Based Interventions, Parents, Brief Intervention

Clinical Topics & Methods

Addictions, Substance Use

Children and Adolescents

Couples, Family

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 50-Addressing Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment-Part 2 3.25 credits

This course examines building a suicide prevention and intervention-capable agency, and is geared toward administrators, executive directions, board members and other upper level staff. It includes: Consensus Panel Recommendations for...

Program Development, Suicide

Clinical Topics & Methods

Addictions, Substance Use

Management, Administration

Suicide

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 50-Addressing Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment-part 1 4.5 credits

This course exams the correlation and dramatically higher risk of suicidality among clients in treatment for substance abuse. It includes: Getting ready to address suicidality, background information, GATE- procedures for...

Suicide

Addictions, Substance Use

Suicide

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Mindfulness Meditation and Psychopathology 3 credits

Mindfulness meditation is increasingly incorporated into mental health interventions, and theoretical concepts associated with it have influenced basic research on psychopathology. In this review, applications of mindfulness meditation to specific...

Anxiety, Trauma, Mindfulness, Depression, Evidence Based Interventions, Attentention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD), Chronic Pain

Clinical Topics & Methods

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Functional Recovery in Major Depressive Disorder: Providing Early Optimal Treatment for the Individual Patient 2.5 credits

The authors of this article call for a revision the psychiatric strategy of "start low and go slow" and waiting six to eight weeks to adjust treatment for Major Depressive...

Depression, Patient Centered

Clinical Topics & Methods

Medical Health, Pharmacology

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Mental Illness and Juvenile Offenders 1.5 credits

Transitions in the role of the juvenile justice system have necessitated more inclusion of assessment and treatment for behavioral health disorders. This is an informative article on the types of...

Criminal Justice, Adolescents

Children and Adolescents

Forensic, Criminal Justice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

After Incarceration: A Guide to Helping Women Reenter the Community 1 credit

Women who are recently released from incarceration face challenges for thriving in communities (e.g. safety, employment, maintaining social support). Several of these challenges are based in cultural and gender factors...

Criminal Justice, Minorities

Forensic, Criminal Justice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial of Supportive Text Messages for Patients With Depression 1 credit

Depression is expected to be the leading cause of disability worldwide by 2030. Rural areas without access to traditional therapeutic interventions may be most susceptible to continued or exacerbated problems...

Depression, Digital Interventions

Technology and Counseling

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic- Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use-Summary and Introduction 2 credits

This course examines the opioid epidemic and the measures that have been taken to decrease OUD. It includes: the charge of the current study, the study approach, definitions and terminology,...

Opioids, Chronic Pain

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Pain Management and the Intersection of Pain and Opioid Use Disorder 3 credits

This course examines pain management and ways to reduce chances of the patient developing OUD by using other methods for treating pain. It includes: the scope of the problem of...

Opioids, Chronic Pain

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Drugs and HIV in People Over 50 2.25 credits

This course discusses HIV and substance abusing in the aging population. Other comorbidities examined are alcohol and smoking tobacco. The first article includes: the prevalence of substance use among older...

Alcohol, Older Adults

HIV and AIDS

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

The Opioid Crisis and the Black and African American Population-An Urgent Issue 1.5 credits

This course examines the opioid epidemic and its impact on the Black/African American community. This population has a disproportionate overdose rate for a specific type of opioid. A one-sized fits...

Opioids, African Americans

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Working Overtime in Community Mental Health: Associations With Clinician Burnout and Perceived Quality of Care 1 credit

A response to funding cuts in community mental health has been increased demands on clinicians resulting in an increase in overtime work. Self-report measures were used to explore patterns in...

Burnout, Self care

Clinical Topics & Methods

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Contingency Management Treatment for Substance Use Disorders-How Far Has It Come and Where Does It Need to Go 1.5 credits

This course discusses contingency management in the behavioral treatment of substance use disorders. It includes a review of the literature, the efficacy of CM, concerns about CM, and next steps...

Contingency Management

Clinical Topics & Methods

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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