Courses by Format: Reading-Based Online

Reading-Based Online courses utilize materials in online formats including web pages and PDF articles. These are nearly all hosted on external websites. If you have trouble accessing the material, please contact our support team for assistance.

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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

Prevention and Treatment of HIV Among People Living With Substance Use and Or Mental Disorders 4 credits

This course examines the treatment of HIV in people with substance use and/or mental disorders. It includes: Overview of current approaches and challenges to preventing and treating HIV for people...

Prevention, Evidence Based Interventions

Application to Practice

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

HIV and STDs

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Reading-Based Online

Behavioral Couples Treatment for Substance Use Disorder-Secondary Effects on the Reduction of Risk for Child Abuse 1.5 credits

This courses discusses the role of behavioral couples treatment where one or more parents in the home have a substance use disorder (SUD) in reducing the risk of child abuse....

Evidence Based Interventions, Parents, Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT)

Family/Couple

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Hispanic Participants in the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Clinical Trials Network-A Scoping Review of Two Decades of Research 1 credit

This course examines data from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network tracking substance use disorder in Hispanics. It reviews 24 studies. It includes: participant demographics, drug use, co-morbidities, substance abuse treatment...

Opioids, Hispanic

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Motivational Interviewing With Couples-A Theoretical Framework for Clinical Practice Illustrated in Substance Use and HIV Prevention Intervention With Gay Male Couples 1.75 credits

This course examine using motivational interviewing in couples therapy as a way to enhance HIV prevention in gay and bisexual men. MI has been successful in drug treatment. It includes:...

Evidence Based Interventions, LGBTQ, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Couples

Family/Couple

HIV and STDs

Application to Practice

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Relative Expected Value of Drugs Versus Competing Rewards Underpins Vulnerability to and Recovery from Addiction 1.5 credits

This course address numerous theories and models in an attempt to create a unified theory of addiction based on concurrent drug choice tasks and relative value using economic Decision Theory....

Brief Intervention, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Contingency Management

Treatment Knowledge

Relapse and Recovery Strategies

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States-Results from the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health 8 credits

This course examines the substance use and mental health indications in the US in 2019. It includes: Alcohol, tobacco and Kratom use in the past month, illicit drug use in...

Treatment Knowledge

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Addiction and the Brain-Development, Not Disease 1.25 credits

This course discusses whether addiction is a disease. The author proposes the disease model of addiction is flawed. Instead he proposes a brain development model shaped through learning, neuroplasticity, self-organization...

Neuroscience

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Understanding Addiction

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

We-Language and Sustained Reductions in Drinking in Couple-Based Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders 1.5 credits

This course discusses the use of language as a determining factor in outcome. Though previous research showed mixed results, the authors hypothesized that use of the word “we” was predictive...

Alcohol, Couples

Application to Practice

Family/Couple

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention for Stimulant Dependent Adults-A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial 1 credit

This course discusses Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) for stimulant dependent adults. The authors included substance abuse of stimulants and addiction in clients with co-occurring Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and...

Anxiety, Mindfulness, Co-Occurring Disorders, Depression, Evidence Based Interventions, Stimulants

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Baseline Patterns of Substance Use Disorder Severity and Depression and Anxiety Symptoms Moderate the Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention 1.5 credits

This is a research intensive course that examines Mindfulness-based relapse prevention in patients with substance use disorder (AUD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) with treatment moderates of depressive and anxiety...

Anxiety, Mindfulness, Co-Occurring Disorders, Depression, Evidence Based Interventions

Application to Practice

Relapse and Recovery Strategies

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Practical Guide to the Provision of Behavioral Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives - Tip 61 Part 1 Chapter 1 6 credits

The course examines cultural competence in behavioral and substance abuse treatment in American Indian and Alaska Native populations. It includes: choosing a path for your learning journey, beginning in the...

Indigenous communities

Application to Practice

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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