CE Courses for Prevention Specialists and Peer Support Specialists

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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

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

Prevention

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

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

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

Treatment Knowledge

Family/Couple

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

Application to Practice

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

Clinical Evaluation

Application to Practice

Assessment

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 52-Clinical Supervision and Professional Development of the Substance Abuse Counselor-Part 2 2.5 credits

This course is a guide for administrators tasked with developing a clinical supervision program for substance abuse counselors. It includes: benefits and rationale, key issues for administrators in clinical supervision,...

Supervision, Program Development

Supervision

Professional Readiness

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 52-Clinical Supervision and Professional Development of the Substance Abuse Counselor-Part 1 5.5 credits

This course examines clinical supervision in detail. It includes: Central Principles of Clinical Supervision, Guidelines for New Supervisors, Models of Clinical Supervision, Developmental Stages of Counselors, Developmental Stages of Supervisors,...

Supervision

Professional Readiness

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

Treatment Planning

Service Coordination

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Treatment of Stimulant Use Disorders 2 credits

This course examines the various evidence based treatment options using various approaches. It includes: current evidence on effectiveness of the following practices included in the guide to address stimulant use...

Program Development, Evidence Based Interventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Contingency Management, Stimulants

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

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

Understanding Addiction

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

Clinical Evaluation

Pharmacology

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Evidence on Strategies for Addressing the Opioid Epidemic 4.5 credits

This course examines strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic. It is multifaceted and explains strategies at various levels of government and settings. It includes: the nature of the evidence, the...

Opioids

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Drugs of Abuse 2020 4.25 credits

This course outlines all the major current drugs of abuse, and drugs of concern. It explains the DEA’s process of Drug Scheduling, with tables of drugs for each schedule. It...

Pharmacology

Application to Practice

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

Treatment Planning

Treatment Knowledge

HIV and STDs

Application to Practice

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Adolescent Binge Drinking-Developmental Context and Opportunities for Prevention 1.5 credits

This course examines alcohol consumption, brain development, high-intensity drinking, and underage drinking in college students and adolescents. It includes: definitions of binge drinking, acute adverse consequences of binge drinking, prevalence...

Adolescents, Alcohol

Clinical Evaluation

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Group Treatment for Women Gamblers Using Web, Teleconference and Workbook-Effectiveness Pilot 1.5 credits

This course discusses problem gambling treatment. Women were given problem gambling treatment via teleconference and webinar using a self-help work book. This remote treatment was effective using a set of...

Groups, Digital Interventions

Application to Practice

Gambling

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

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Prevention With Purpose-A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students 3.75 credits

This course discusses preventing drug misuse among college students. It includes: surveying the drug misuse prevention landscape, using the strategic prevention framework to prevent drug misuse among college students, how...

Prevention, School/University

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

Prevention

Professional Readiness

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

Professional Readiness

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

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Treatment Knowledge

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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