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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A Paradigm Shift-Relationships in Trauma-Informed Mental Health Services 1.25 credits

Trauma-informed approaches, and trauma informed care emerged partly in response to research demonstrating that trauma is widespread across society, that it is highly correlated with mental health and that this...

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Application to Practice

Peer Recovery

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Component Model of Addiction Treatment: A Pragmatic Transdiagnostic Treatment Model of Behavioral and Substance Addictions 1.5 credits

Behavioral addictions such as gambling, video games, sex, and shopping share many clinical features with substance use disorders, including etiology, course, and neurobiology. Yet, the treatment of behavioral addictions and...

Understanding Addiction

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Bipolar Disorder and Cannabis Use 2.25 credits

Marijuana is the most widely used illicit substance in those diagnosed with bipolar I disorder. However, there is conflicting evidence as to whether marijuana may alleviate or exacerbate mood symptomatology....

Treatment Knowledge

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The Effects of the Addiction Programme of Probation on Treatment Motivation, Abstinence and Quality of Life: A Comparative Study With Motivational Interviewing and Individual Intervention 1 credit

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Addiction Programme of Probation (APP) created by the Substance Abuse Treatment Commission of Ministry of Health in Turkey. The...

Application to Practice

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Marijuana Use Among Adults 50 Years Or Older in the 21st Century 1 credit

Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug among older adults. As an older population grows in the United States that has a tolerant attitude toward marijuana use, the dynamics...

Treatment Knowledge

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Mindfulness-based Treatment of Addiction 1 credit

Current state of the feld and envisioning the next wave of research

Contemporary advances in addiction neuroscience have paralleled increasing interest in the ancient mental training practice of mindfulness meditation as a potential therapy for addiction. In the past decade, mindfulness-based interventions...

Application to Practice

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Marijuana and Teens 2 credits

The concurrent or sequential usage of multiple substances during adolescence is a serious public health problem. These articles look at how marijuana use interacts with other substance use in social...

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 7 - Vision for the Future 1 credit

The problems caused by substance misuse are not limited to substance use disorders, but include many other possible health and safety problems that can result from substance misuse even in...

Service Coordination

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 6 - Health Care Systems and Substance Use Disorders 4 credits

This chapter describes the key components of health care systems; historical reasons substance use and its consequences have been addressed separately from other health problems; the key role that health...

Service Coordination

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

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Critique of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction. 1.5 credits

The Office of the Surgeon General recently produced its first Report on the consequences of alcohol and drug abuse on health, making several very laudable policy recommendations, including characterizing addiction...

Understanding Addiction

Prevention

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 4 - Early Intervention, Treatment, and Management; and Chapter 5 - Recovery 2 credits

Substance misuse is one of the critical public health problems of our time. The most recent data on substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders reveal that the problem is...

Application to Practice

Prevention

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 3 - Prevention Programs and Policies 2 credits

Substance misuse is one of the critical public health problems of our time. The most recent data on substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders reveal that the problem is...

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

Prevention

Professional Readiness

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 2 - The Neurobiology of Substance Use, Misuse, and Addiction 1.5 credits

This chapter describes the neurobiological framework underlying substance abuse and why clients transition from using or misusing to a substance use disorder. It also explains how these substances produce changes...

Understanding Addiction

Prevention

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview of the Report 2 credits

The Surgeon’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health

Substance misuse is one of the critical public health problems of our time. The most recent data on substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders reveal that the problem is...

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

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The Opioid Epidemic: Crisis and Solutions 1 credit

This course provides a broad review of the opioid epidemic by outlining the scope and origins of the epidemic and addressing potential solutions and approaches to solve and, ultimately, eradicate...

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

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Ethical Models 3.5 credits

This collection of four articles describes multiple ethical models with a special focus on their application to the field of Social Work. The first article is entitled: Integral Ethics for...

Ethics

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Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Long-term Concurrent Use of Stimulants and Opioids Among Adults With ADHD 1 credit

The objective of the study discussed in this article is to assess the prevalence and secular trends of long-term use of stimulants and opioids among adults with ADHD by assessing...

Treatment Knowledge

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Focus on Prevention: Strategies and Programs to Prevent Substance Use 5 credits

This course offers brief and practical information that is useful in planning and delivering youth substance abuse prevention programs. Prevention strategies, ensuring a solid foundation for strategies, and ways to...

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

Application to Practice

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"I Feel It In My Heart When My Parents Fight": Experiences of 7-9-Year-Old Children of Alcoholics 1 credit

This study explored the consequences for a child of having an alcoholic parent, from the point of view of 7–9-year-old COA. In the analysis, using qualitative content analysis, the findings...

Treatment Knowledge

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Tobacco, Nicotine, and E-Cigarettes: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) 1 credit

As tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, differential rates of smoking and use of other tobacco products is a significant contributor to health...

Understanding Addiction

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Reading-Based Online

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