CE Courses for Addiction Counselors and Prevention Specialists

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TIP 57-Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services Trauma Awareness 2.25 credits

This course focuses on trauma awareness. It includes: types of trauma, natural trauma, human caused trauma, individual, group, and mass traumas, community trauma, interpersonal trauma, historical trauma, IPV, adverse childhood...

Clinical Topics & Methods

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Chapter 5: Brief Strategic/interactional Therapies from Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies for Substance Abuse 1.5 credits

Strategic/interactional therapies attempt to identify the client’s strengths and actively create personal and environmental situations where success can be achieved. In these therapies, the focus is on the individual’s strengths...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Reading-Based Online

TIP 59-Improving Cultural Competence-Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Treatment Planning 1.25 credits

This course examines culturally responsive evaluation and treatment planning. It includes the 9 steps important in evaluation and treatment planning: Step 1-Engage Clients, Step 2-Familiarize Clients and Their Families With...

Cultural & Racial Diversity

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Reading-Based Online

TIP 59-Improving Cultural Competence-Core Competencies for Counselors and Other Staff 1.5 credits

This course discusses core competencies for counselors and other clinical staff. It includes: core counselor competencies self-assessment for individual cultural competence, self-knowledge, and cultural knowledge of behavioral health. It has...

Addictions, Substance Use

Cultural & Racial Diversity

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TIP 59-Improving Cultural Competence- An Introduction 3.25 credits

This course is an overview of the TIP in the executive summary and Chapter 1. It covers the following: core assumptions, what is cultural competence? Why is cultural competence important,...

Addictions, Substance Use

Cultural & Racial Diversity

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Reading-Based Online

Clinical Supervision and Professional Development of The Substance Abuse Counselor Part 3-A Review of the Literature-Section 1 1 credit

This TIP explores the aspects of clinical supervision and continuing education in substance abuse counseling. It includes: definitions of clinical supervision, unique issues in supervision for substance abuse counselors, current...

Supervision

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Culturally Competent Prevention and Treatment 1.5 credits

This research intensive course examines various aspects of treatment in racial and ethnic groups and sexual minorities. Evidence-based practices were used to study alcohol use, abuse, and dependence in ethnic...

Addictions, Substance Use

Cultural & Racial Diversity

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Reading-Based Online

Creating a Climate for Therapist Improvement-A Case Study of an Agency Focused on Outcomes and Deliberate Practice 1.25 credits

This course examines quality improvement of therapist effects through routine outcomes monitoring. The study was longitudinal lasting 7 years, using 153 therapists treating 5,128 patients in Canada. An agency used...

Supervision

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Sexual-orientation Differences in Drinking Patterns and Use of Drinking Contexts Among College Students 1.25 credits

This course examines the effect of sexual orientation and gender on alcohol use, using graduated frequency measures and drinking contexts. Binge drinking patterns were studied. Sexual identity was shown to...

Addictions, Substance Use

Gender Issues

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Reading-Based Online

Improving Cultural Competence: Quick Guide for Clinicians (Based on TIP 59) 1 credit

This course is designed to help healthcare professionals and administrators understand the role of culture in treatment services. Providing a context for cultural competency and highlighting assumptions and relevant dimensions,...

Cultural & Racial Diversity

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Substance Abuse Treatment: Group Therapy 1.25 credits

A quick guide for clinicians regarding the basic principles and management of group therapy. This is an overview of the role and efficacy of group therapy in substance abuse treatment...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Treatments for Smoking Cessation 1.5 credits

This course explores smoking cessation and depression. The articles look at the rate of abstinence for patients with mild and moderate/severe depression compared with patients without depression. Nicotine Replacement Therapy...

Clinical Topics & Methods

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Brief Motivational Interviewing and Adolescent Alcohol Use 1.5 credits

These articles discuss the use of motivational interviewing (MI) as a treatment for adolescent alcohol use. One article focuses on MI's impact of heavy drinking days and the other looks...

Addictions, Substance Use

Children and Adolescents

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Reading-Based Online

Does One Day of Drinking Matter? 21st Birthday Drinking Predicts Subsequent Drinking and Consequences 1 credit

This course examines the effects of high peak (binge) drinking on the 21st birthday. The study included a large sample of 599 college students. Surprisingly those who drank less at...

Addictions, Substance Use

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TIP 47-Substance Abuse-Clinical Issues in Intensive Outpatient Treatment, IOT Approaches 1 credit

This course outlines Intensive Outpatient Treatment approaches. The following approaches are examined: 12 Step-Facilitation, Cognitive-Behavioral (CBT) Motivational (MI and ME), Therapeutic Community, The Matrix Model, Community Reinforcement and Contingency Management....

Addictions, Substance Use

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Substance Use in Women 2.25 credits

This article discusses specific issues women face for addiction and substance misuse due to both sex and gender issues. Biological processes place women at greater risk of addiction and death...

Addictions, Substance Use

Gender Issues

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On Mourning and Recovery-Integrating Stages of Grief and Change Toward a Neuroscience-Based Model of Attachment Adaptation in Addiction Treatment 1 credit

Interpersonal attachment and drug addiction share many attributes across their behavioral and neurobiological domains. Understanding the over-lapping brain circuitry of attachment formation and addiction can lead to a better understanding...

Addictions, Substance Use

Material Cost $25

Reading-Based Online

The Effect of Brief Interventions for Alcohol Among People With Comorbid Mental Health Conditions-A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials and Narrative Synthesis 1 credit

This article reviews the evidence on the effect of brief interventions (BIs) for alcohol among adults with risky alcohol consumption and comorbid mental health conditions. Differences in the findings may...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Reading-Based Online

E-Therapy With Addiction Treatments 1 credit

This course explores the treatment of alcohol dependence, cannabis dependence, cocaine dependence, opioid dependence and gambling using computer-based health interventions comprised of behavioral therapy, both guided and self-directed. Treatment types...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders 6.5 credits

In this report, the committee explores the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and how they change accountability and performance...

Clinical Topics & Methods

Addictions, Substance Use

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Reading-Based Online

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