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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Substance Misuse Prevention for Young Adults 4 credits

This course examines prevention of substance abuse in young adults. It includes: preventing substance misuse among young adults, effectiveness of substance misuse prevention, evidence-based prevention, and guidance for selecting and...

Prevention, Young Adult

Prevention

Professional Readiness

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

A Systematic Review on the Use of Psychosocial Interventions in Conjunction With Medications for the Treatment of Opioid Addiction 1.5 credits

This course discusses the use of psychosocial counseling in patients receiving medication-assisted treatment (MAT). It examines various approaches in patients receiving methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone. The interventions examined were CM,...

Evidence Based Interventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), Contingency Management, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

APA Ethics Code: With the 2016 Amendments to Standard 3.04 2 credits

The most recent revision to the APA Ethics Code (2002) articulated general core principles as well as specific ethical standards that inform the practices of psychologists. Psychologists and those they...

Ethics

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Mothering from the Inside Out: Results of a Second Randomized Clinical Trial Testing a Mentalization-based Intervention for Mothers in Addiction Treatment 2 credits

Mothers with histories of alcohol and drug addiction have shown greater difficulty parenting young children than mothers with no history of substance misuse. This study was the second randomized clinical...

Alcohol, Parents

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Family Based Interventions 1.5 credits

This course explores several family based interventions for Substance use and video conferencing to deliver it. It highlights evidence-based treatment using family therapy and behavioral interventions to deal with externalizing...

Evidence Based Interventions, Digital Interventions, Family Therapy

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Application to Practice

Family/Couple

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Adolescent Substance Use-A Move to the Level of Systems 1 credit

This course examines the risk of substance abuse to adolescents stemming from inappropriate attachment using systems theory and family-based intervention. It includes: Behavior and Exchange Systems Therapy (BEST), attachment, discourse,...

Trauma, Adolescents, Family Therapy

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

Family/Couple

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 42 Co-Occurring Disorder Strategies, Special Populations and Treatment Models 7.5 credits

This course covers Chapter 5-7 of this TIP and examines co-occurring disorders (COD) strategies and treatment models to use, as well as treating special populations. It includes: competencies for working...

Criminal Justice, Co-Occurring Disorders, Minorities, Homelessness, Therapeutic Relationship, Pharmacotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

Professional Readiness

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 42 Co-Occurring Disorder Chapter 4-Diagnostic and Cross Cutting Topics 6.25 credits

This course examines the relationship between SUD and mental disorders, including DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. It includes: depressive disorders Bi-polar I Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), personality disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia...

Trauma, Co-Occurring Disorders, Suicide, Veteran, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Eating Disorder, Attentention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)

Clinical Evaluation

Assessment

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Kratom History and Current Perspectives 1.75 credits

This course examines the expanding use of Kratom in the US through two articles. The drug has similar effects to both opioids and stimulants depending upon preparation. The active ingredient...

Treatment Knowledge

Pharmacology

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (TIP 63)-Pharmacotherapy in OUD 7 credits

This TIP is about using FDA approved medications to treat Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Part 3 of this TIP describes general principles of OUD pharmacotherapy and discusses medication formulations, indications,...

Opioids, Pharmacotherapy

Pharmacology

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 42 Co-Occurring Disorder Screening and Assessment 5.5 credits

This course addresses Screening and assessment of clients with co-occurring disorders (COD). It includes: Terminology, The Complex, Unstable, and Bidirectional Nature of COD’s, Guiding Principles for Working With People Who...

Co-Occurring Disorders, Clinical Assessment

Clinical Evaluation

Assessment

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, Partnering Addiction Treatment Counselors With Clients and Healthcare Professionals 2.75 credits

TIP 63 provides a clinical overview of three FDA-approved medications for the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) as well as addresses other strategies useful in the management of this...

Opioids, Pharmacotherapy, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

Pharmacology

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder-introductions to Medications and Addressing Opioid Use in Medical Settings 4 credits

This TIP discusses Medical Assisted Therapy (MAT) for opioid addiction. Addiction is a chronic, treatable illness. Opioid addiction often requires continuing care for effective treatment rather than an episodic, acute-care...

Opioids, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

Pharmacology

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

RCT of Culturally Adapted Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD Substance Misuse and HIV Sexual Risk Behavior for Native American Women 1 credit

This course address culturally adapted cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in treating American Indians and Alaskan Natives with PTSD, substance misuse and HIV sexual risk behavior. It includes: adaptation of CPT,...

Indigenous communities, Alcohol, Cultural Adaptation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

Application to Practice

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Universal School-Based Implementation of S-BIRT to Reduce and Prevent Drug Use - Process and Feasibility 1 credit

This course examines the universal implementation of SBIRT for adolescent alcohol and/or drug users in a school setting. It includes: community partners and school recruitment, screener selection, training and quality...

Adolescents, Prevention, Prevention Public Policy, School/University

Prevention

Professional Readiness

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Job Frustration in Substance Abuse Counselors Working With Offenders in Prisons Versus Community Settings 1.25 credits

This course examines the job frustrations among substance abuse counselors treating offenders in community vs prison settings. It includes: job frustration, counselor characteristics and job frustration, workplace setting and job...

Criminal Justice

Professional Readiness

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Opioid Agonist Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in a U.S. National Sample 1 credit

This course examines opioid agonist treatment racial disparities in treating opioid use disorder among ethnic minorities (Hispanic) and African Americans. Medication assisted treatment (MAT) was studied in opioid treatment programs....

Minorities, Opioids, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), African Americans, BIPOC, Hispanic

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

First-Episode Psychosis and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders 3.5 credits

This informational resource describes research and interventions relative to young people with both substance abuse disorders and their first episode of psychosis. Research on effectiveness of interventions is included in...

Co-Occurring Disorders, Evidence Based Interventions, Young Adult

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

The Opioid Crisis and the Hispanic Latino Population-An Urgent Issue 1.75 credits

This course examines how the opioid crisis is impacting the Hispanic/Latino population. It includes: contextual issues related to opioid misuse and OUD in Hispanic/Latino communities, highlights of the national data,...

Evidence Based Interventions, Opioids, Cultural Adaptation, Hispanic

Understanding Addiction

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Special Issues for Women in Recovery Groups 2 credits

This material for this course examines issues pertaining to women in recovery groups. The first article tests the efficacy of the Women’s Recovery Group (WRG) vs mixed gender groups. The...

Recovery Oriented, Groups, Alcohol, 12 Step

Treatment Knowledge

Group Counseling

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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