CE Courses for Addiction Counselors and Peer Support Specialists

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TIP34 Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies for Substance Abuse: Introduction and Brief Interventions 3 credits

This course discusses Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies in both alcohol use and substance use. These interventions include mild, moderate, severe and dependent users. The therapies covered are: brief cognitive–behavioral...

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TIP-29 Substance Use Disorder Treatment For People With Physical and Cognitive Disabilities-Overview of Treatment Issues 1.75 credits

This course examines the issues treating people with disabilities in a substance abuse treatment setting. It includes an overview of the three types of disabilities, breaks down disabilities within the...

Treatment Knowledge

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TIP 29 Substance Use Disorder Treatment For People With Physical and Cognitive Disabilities - Treatment Planning and Service Delivery 2 credits

This course examines the issues of treating clients with sensory, cognitive and physical disabilities. It includes: understanding client attitudes in treatment, treatment planning, counseling issues, medication assessment and management, and...

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TIP 41 Substance Abuse Treatment: Group Therapy - Why Groups and Types of Groups 3 credits

Group therapy is regarded as a powerful means of engaging therapeutic forces such as affiliation, support, and peer confrontation to treat substance users within a culture of recovery. Groups therapy...

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Group Counseling

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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...

Understanding Addiction

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Adolescent Alcohol Treatment Interventions 1 credit

This course examines alcohol treatment options in the adolescent population. The first article discusses brief intervention motivational interviewing in youth ages 14-20. The second article was a pilot RCT studying...

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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,...

Treatment Knowledge

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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...

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Group Counseling

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Outpatient Counseling Models 1.25 credits

This course explores outpatient substance abuse counseling. The first article outlines the history of substance use therapy, and discusses a relational model, specifically the application of an integrated relational approach,...

Treatment Knowledge

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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...

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TIP 41-Substance Abuse Treatment-Group Therapy-Stages of Treatment and Training and Supervision 2 credits

This course focuses on treatment and clinical supervision. It covers: adjustments to make treatment appropriate, the stages of treatment, the condition of clients in each stage and leadership in each...

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Group Counseling

Professional Readiness

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TIP 41-Substance Abuse Treatment-Group Therapy-Criteria for Placement and Group Development 3 credits

This course examines the criteria for the placement in groups and group development and phase-specific tasks. It covers: matching clients with groups, assessing the client for group readiness, placing clients...

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Group Counseling

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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...

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

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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...

Treatment Knowledge

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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....

Professional Readiness

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Substance Abuse Treatment-Addressing the Specific Needs of Women, TIP 51-Physiological Effects of Drugs 1.5 credits

This course gives on overview of the physiological impact of alcohol and drugs on women, including tobacco. It assesses risk of various diseases by drug. It outlines the risks of...

Treatment Knowledge

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Substance Abuse Treatment-Addressing the Specific Needs of Women, TIP 51-Patterns of Use: From Initiation to Treatment 1.5 credits

This course examines the patterns of substance use, abuse and dependence among women. It includes risk factor of use, reasons of initiation and means of introduction. It also addresses comorbidity...

Treatment Knowledge

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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...

Clinical Evaluation

Treatment Knowledge

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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...

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Understanding Addiction

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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...

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

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