CE Courses for Addiction Counselors and Prevention Specialists

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Problematic Social Networking Site Usage and Substance Use by Young Adolescents 1 credit

This course examines problematic social networking site usage (PSNSU) among adolescents. It includes identifying risk factors such as alcohol, tobacco, and energy drink use, peer pressure and peer posting of...

Adolescents, Alcohol, Problematic Internet Use, Tobacco/Smoking

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Treatment Efficacy of a Specialized Psychotherapy Program for Internet Gaming Disorder 1.75 credits

This course examines the treatment efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) versus Program Individualized Psychotherapy for Addiction of Technology Information and Communication (PIPATIC) for gaming disorder treatment in adolescent Spanish...

Adolescents, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Problematic Internet Use, Gaming

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Evaluation of Yoga for Preventing Adolescent Substance Use Risk Factors in a Middle School Setting-A Preliminary Group- Randomized Controlled Trial 2 credits

This course examines the use of yoga meditation, and mindfulness in a school setting to prevent substance use and addiction. It includes: self-regulation as a risk and protective factor for...

Adolescents, Youth, Expressive Therapy, School/University, Yoga

Treatment Knowledge

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Application to Practice

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Acculturative Stress As a Moderator of the Effect of Drinking Motives on Alcohol Use and Problems Among Young Adults 1.75 credits

This course examines acculturative stress and ethnic-racial difference as drinking motives for alcohol use and alcohol problems. It includes acculturative stress measured with: drinking motives, alcohol consumption, alcohol related problems,...

Alcohol, Minorities, Young Adult

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

"This Is the Result of Something Else": Experiences of Men That Abused Drugs and Had Experienced Childhood Trauma 1 credit

The co-occurrence of childhood trauma and substance abuse problems in general populations has been explored in past research. The authors of this study designed a qualitative research study of men...

Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)

Treatment Knowledge

Understanding Addiction

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

A Semantic Corpus Comparison Analysis of Couple-Focused Interventions for Problematic Alcohol Use 1.5 credits

This course discusses an analysis of language use for couples therapy focused interventions for problematic alcohol examining close relationships use using text analysis. It includes: Automatic text analysis (ATA), Wmatrix,...

Evidence Based Interventions, Alcohol, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Couples

Family/Couple

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Ethical Aspects of Mental Health Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-, Pan-, Asexual, and Transgender People: A Case Based Approach 1 credit

This course's article is a review of the applications of ethical principles to behavioral health treatment with LGBTQ+ clients. Case studies of presenting issues of each client and relevant ethical...

LGBTQ

Cultural Diversity

Ethics

Peer Recovery

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Longing for the Past and Longing for the Future-A Phenomenological Assessment of the Relation Between Temporal Focus and Readiness to Change Among People Living With Addiction 2 credits

This course examines using nostalgia as a tool of change in gambling addiction. Participants were ask to focus on their life before gambling and envisioning a future without gambling. It...

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Treatment Knowledge

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Barriers, Facilitators, and Disparities in Retention for Adolescents in Treatment for Substance Use Disorders-a Qualitative Study With Treatment Providers 1.25 credits

This course examines barriers, disparities, and facilitators for adolescent retention in substance abuse treatment. The authors interviewed 19 providers in Massachusetts with an average clinical experience of 11 years using...

Adolescents

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Pharmacotherapy for Stimulant Use Disorders-A Systematic Review 2 credits

This course examines a systematic review of pharmacotherapies for stimulant use disorders conducted by the department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration. It includes: antidepressants, antipsychotics, psychostimulants, cognitive enhancing drugs,...

Opioids, Pharmacotherapy, Stimulants

Pharmacology

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Brain Interrupted-Early Life Traumatic Brain Injury and Addiction Vulnerability 1.5 credits

This research intensive course focuses on early-life Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Substance Use Disorder (SUDD). It includes: animal models of addiction, TBI and the young brain, clinical and epidemiological...

Understanding Addiction

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Program Evaluation of Group Transcending Self Therapy-An Integrative Modular Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders 1 credit

This course address substance use disorder in veterans. It examines cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and integrative therapy in a group therapy format. Treatment outcome was measured by drug screens (UDS),...

Evidence Based Interventions, Groups, Veteran, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Group Counseling

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Complexities With Group Therapy Facilitation in Substance Use Disorder Specialty Treatment Settings 1.25 credits

This course discusses a study of group therapy to examine the gap in evidence-based therapy and group therapy practice. This qualitative inquiry interviewed several group therapists specializing in substance use...

Evidence Based Interventions, Groups

Group Counseling

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Comparison of 12-step Groups to Mutual Help Alternatives for AUD in a Large, National Study-Differences in Membership Characteristics and Group Participation, Cohesion, and Satisfaction 1.25 credits

This course compares traditional 12-Step groups to mutual help alternatives for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). It includes membership characteristics, group participation, cohesion, satisfaction, alternatives to the 12-step model, basic demographic...

Groups, Alcohol, 12 Step

Group Counseling

Application to Practice

Relapse and Recovery Strategies

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Dealing With Ethical Challenges in Mental Health: a Focus Group Study 1.75 credits

Most studies of clinical ethics are based on scenarios, not direct reporting of how clinicians and clinical teams actually cope with ethical challenges. In this study, the authors use focus...

Ethics

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Group Therapy and Substance Use Patients 1.5 credits

This course contains two articles that discuss evidence-based practice, group therapy and mindfulness in substance use disorder treatment. The first article examines evidence-based practice vs treatment—as-usual in group therapy, as...

Mindfulness, Evidence Based Interventions, Groups, Inpatient, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Group Counseling

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

A Systematic Review of Gambling-related Findings from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions 2.25 credits

This course is a systematic review of 51 studies on gambling and pathological gambling using national datasets from NESARC. It includes: definitions of recreational and problem gambling, gambling subtypes, sociodemographics...

Alcohol

Application to Practice

Gambling

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Dimensions of Impulsivity in Gambling Disorder 1 credit

This course discusses the role of impulsivity in Gambling Disorder. It includes the model proposed by MacKillop et al., delay discounting, sensation seeking, associations between impulsivity, associations between impulsivity measures,...

Application to Practice

Gambling

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Poor, Persecuted, Young, and Alone-Toward Explaining the Elevated Risk of Alcohol Problems Among Black and Latino Men Who Drink 1 credit

This course examines the risk of alcohol problems and consequences among Hispanic and African American men. It discusses, disparities, socioeconomic status, and discrimination as they pertain to alcohol use. It...

Alcohol, Minorities, African Americans, Hispanic

Cultural Diversity

Treatment Knowledge

Understanding Addiction

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mutual Help Group Participation for Substance Use Problems 1.25 credits

This course examines whether there are disparities in mutual help participation for substance use problems, including alcohol, among African American, Hispanic, Native American based on race/ethnicity while seeking self-help. It...

Indigenous communities, Groups, Alcohol, African Americans, Hispanic

Group Counseling

Cultural Diversity

Application to Practice

Relapse and Recovery Strategies

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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