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Nurturing Expertise At Mental Health Agencies-Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Supervision and Training 1.5 credits

This course is an in depth study that examines outcome measures in clinical practice. Through the use of outcome measures, an agency in Canada was ample to implement supervision and...

Supervision

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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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Reading-Based Online

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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Reading-Based Online

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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Reading-Based Online

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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Reading-Based Online

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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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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Conceptualizing Gambling Disorder With the Process Model of Emotion Regulation 1 credit

Nowadays, gambling disorder (GD) is a worldwide health issue and there is a growing need to both improve our understanding of this disorder and to tailor specific interventions for its...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Craving Behavior Intervention in Ameliorating College Students' Internet Game Disorder-A Longitudinal Study 1 credit

This article explores craving in Internet Game Disorder among college students. Craving, as a central feature of addiction and a precursor of relapse, has been recently targeted in addiction intervention....

Addictions, Substance Use

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Free Will in Addictive Behaviors-A Matter of Definition 1.5 credits

This article explores free will in addiction, positing that it reflects likelihood of choices, not lack of capability to act. It enumerates the factors that place people at susceptibility for...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Reading-Based Online

Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Alcohol Treatment 1.25 credits

This course explores brief interventions for alcohol treatment in adolescents. The first article focuses on computer vs therapist brief interventions(BI). Reviews of strategies such as refusal skills, protective behavioral strategies,...

Clinical Topics & Methods

Addictions, Substance Use

Children and Adolescents

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Reading-Based Online

Quick Guide for Clinicians: Substance Abuse Treatment and Family Therapy 1.5 credits

An introduction to family therapy interventions and issues of family therapy applications for substance abuse counselors. This quick guide focuses on how substance abuse affects the entire family and provides...

Addictions, Substance Use

Couples, Family

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Reading-Based Online

TIP 47 Substance Abuse: Clinical Issues in Intensive Outpatient Treatment - Clinical Issues and Challenges 1.75 credits

This course addresses clinical issues, challenges, and strategies in Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOT). It discusses: client retention, relapse and continued substance abuse, substance abuse by family members, group work issues,...

Addictions, Substance Use

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TIP 47-Substance Abuse-Clinical Issues in Intensive Outpatient Treatment, Family Based Services 1.75 credits

This course discusses family based service. For a myriad of reasons, such as many clients coming from substance abusing families and being enabled by family members, many IOT’s use a...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Reading-Based Online

A Randomized Study of the Use of Screening, Brief Interventions, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Drug and Alcohol Use With Jail Inmates 2 credits

The screening, brief interventions, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is an evidenced based practice that has been effective in multiple settings. This study investigates the effectiveness of (SBIRT) for treatment...

Clinical Assessment

Addictions, Substance Use

Forensic, Criminal Justice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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