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Free State Social Work

This course provides an overview of concurrent substance use and concurrent substance use disorder, exploring risk factors, protective factors, screening, assessment, and treatment. Three treatment approaches are examined including FDA-approved pharmacotherapy with counseling, contingency management with FDA-approved pharmacotherapy and counseling, and twelve-step facilitation therapy with FDA-approved pharmacotherapy and counseling.

Free State Social Work

This course explores recent research on stimulant use disorders along with best treatment practices. The course examines how cocaine, methamphetamine, and prescription stimulants affect neurobiology, the brain, and behavior. Common medical and psychological complications are discussed. The course describes the best supported treatment approaches; contingency management is highlighted as the primary psychosocial treatment for stimulant disorders. Strategies for supporting patients in treatment and recovery are given.

Free State Social Work

This course explores current research related to medications to treat opioid use disorder. The course offers an overview of methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone and compares their effectiveness and how they work. Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and diversion risks are discussed. The course examines opioid use disorder treatment for special populations, including those with HIV, those in the military, those in the criminal justice system, and pregnant mothers.

Free State Social Work

This course is the first of a 3-part series on recovery from problematic substance use. The course provides an introduction to recovery-oriented counseling and describes a shift in SUD treatment away from a model of specialized treatment that focuses primarily on abstinence and toward a different model of integrated care that is strengths-based, client-driven, and offers a broad range of services.

Free State Social Work

This course is the second of a 3-part series on recovery from problematic substance use and offers a framework for supporting recovery with counseling. The course explores strengths-based, recovery-oriented counseling and includes a discussion of values, recovery capital, unconditional positive regard, cues for health and well-being, self-efficacy, and motivation.

Free State Social Work

This course examines counseling approaches for promoting harm reduction, preventing recurrence, sustaining recovery, and promoting a healthy life. It explores evidence-based practices including trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral therapy, contingency management, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, and psychoeducation. The course also examines four domains that assist a life in recovery: health, home, purpose, and community.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course explores opioid use disorder and reviews trends, treatments, and approaches. The course offers an overview of the opioid crisis as one of our biggest public health challenges. Benefits and limitations of existing treatment options are examined with a discussion of naloxone and MOUDs.

Free State Social Work

This course explores considerations and recommendations for addressing HIV and substance use disorders. Topics related to unstable housing, sexual risk-taking, substance use disorder screening, co-occurring mental health disorders, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) are discussed. The course reviews commonly used substances and their impact on HIV and ART.

Free State Social Work

This course explores marijuana use disorder and youth marijuana prevention. The course provides an overview of marijuana, its potency, methods of use, changes in use, and prevalence and offers a discussion of short- and long-term adverse effects and harms. Risk and protective factors are examined along with challenges to prevention efforts. Promising substance use prevention programs and interventions are given.

Free State Social Work

This course examines the prevalence of prescription stimulant use and misuse among youth and young adults. Short and long term health effects of prescription stimulant use are explored along with risk and protective factors. Opportunities for prevention are discussed, and considerations for screening, assessment, and treatment are given.

Zur Institute

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A tobacco use disorder is diagnosed according to criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and current research identifies tobacco patterns and severity of use that clinicians can reference when diagnosing and planning treatment. Medication and behavioral-based interventions such as direct provider to patient interaction, group therapy, specialized clinics, self-help interventions using educational resources and telephone resources or counseling are the mainstay of smoking cessation. Risk factors related to tobacco use, smoking cessation options and relapse prevention are discussed.

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Therapeutic communities are a common form of long-term residential treatment for substance use disorders. This course provides an overview of the therapeutic community treatment modality and its effectiveness in serving those with substance use disorders.

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reviews brain research on the neurobiological processes that turn casual substance use into a compulsive disorder

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Introductory-level learning material presenting social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychologists with information needed to implement telehealth therapy into the treatment of serious mental illness and substance use disorders, discussing need, benefits, challenges, effectiveness, and evaluation approaches.

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Issues related to substance-induced psychosis are important for clinicians to understand so that they can properly assess and determine root cause when patients manifest signs of mental illness. Factors related to substance-induced psychosis vary depending on the patient's age, type and frequency of drug used. Early intervention by a qualified and knowledgeable health clinician is critical to help patients obtain the needed treatment and to avoid patient risk of harm to self and harm to others.

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This CEU course provides practical and evidence-based practice guidance on Substance Abuse Problems. It includes information on the definitions, characteristics, theories and models, diagnostic and treatment indications, and relevant aspects and methods of evidence-based psychosocial treatments for substance abuse problems.

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This course prepares clinicians to adapt SUD treatments and services to each family's individual makeup and needs. It covers different types of families, family-based SUD treatment approaches, family systems, and the role of substance misuse on family dynamics.

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This course presents clinicians with different family counseling approaches available for SUD treatment and ways to integrate these family-based counseling techniques into SUD treatment. Clinicians will learn how to determine the most appropriate course of treatment to help develop more targeted treatments that directly address families' and clients' challenges for improved outcomes.

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Substance use during pregnancy is not uncommon. Pregnant women have been found to consume alcohol during the first trimester of pregnancy, and both illicit and prescription drug use have become a public health concern for women during pregnancy. Fetal exposure to substances affects normal fetal development and is associated with a high rate of low birth weight and childhood development and cognitive impairment. Screening for the risk and the diagnosis of a substance use disorder during pregnancy, as well as correlating socioeconomic and other environmental stressors; and, treatment and follow-up of the mother's recovery and the child's development in utero and after birth are discussed.