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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Community Assessment Primer 2.5 credits

Describing Your Community, Collecting Data, Analyzing the Issues and Establishing a Road Map for Change

This course examines the assessment framework for community prevention. It includes: the Drug Free Communities Support Program, Public Health Approach, SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework, building partnerships for community assessment, stability...

Prevention, Prevention Planning and Evaluating

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Models of Remote Professional Supervision for Psychologists in Rural and Remote Locations: A Systematic Review 1 credit

Psychological providers are sparse in geographically rural or remote locations. The authors review models of remote professional supervision and the experiences of psychological providers practicing in remote locations. A mixed-methods...

Supervision, Rural/Remote Communities

Supervision

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Motives for Alcohol Use, Risky Drinking Patterns and Harm Reduction Practices Among People Who Experience Homelessness and Alcohol Dependence in Montreal 1.5 credits

This course delves into the complex relationship between alcohol use, harm reduction, and homelessness. People experiencing homelessness often face a multitude of challenges, including alcohol dependence, which contributes to various...

Alcohol, Harm Reduction, Homelessness

Application to Practice

Treatment Knowledge

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Application of Environmental Sensitivity Theories in Personalized Prevention for Youth Substance Use: a Transdisciplinary Translational Perspective 1 credit

Within the prevention field, one size fits all interventions have shown only modest effects in reducing rates of substance use. This course explores the possibility that personalized prevention interventions may...

Prevention Planning and Evaluating, Youth

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Entertainment–Education Videos As a Persuasive Tool in the Substance Use Prevention Interventions "keepin' It REAL" 1 credit

This course examines Entertainment-education videos as a way to prevent substance use in adolescents in both rural and urban communities. It includes: E-E- effects on healthy behaviors, E-E- perspective on...

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Bulletins for Professionals: Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies 1 credit

This bulletin explores how agencies can support children and youth who have been exploited as well as those who may have risk factors for future exploitation. Legal protections are described...

Prevention Public Policy, Youth, Human Trafficking

Clinical Evaluation

Application to Practice

Professional Readiness

Prevention

Peer Recovery

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Prevention Strategies for American Indian Youth 1.5 credits

This course is compromised of two studies examining substance use in the American Indian youth population. It includes The Intertribal Talking Circle intervention and the adapted Strengthening Families Program for...

Indigenous communities, Prevention, Evidence Based Interventions, Youth, Cultural Adaptation

Prevention

Cultural Diversity

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Reading-Based Online

Reviewing the Availability, Efficacy and Clinical Utility of Telepsychology in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (Tele-DBT) 1.75 credits

Telepsychology is increasingly being implemented in mental health care. The authors conducted a scoping review on the best available research evidence regarding availability, efficacy and clinical utility of telepsychology in...

Telehealth, Evidence Based Interventions, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Technology

Application to Practice

Treatment Knowledge

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse 3.5 credits

This course examines community-level policies to prevent alcohol misuse. This includes: an overview of effective prevention policies that can be implemented on various community levels; key considerations and strategies for...

Prevention, Alcohol, Prevention Public Policy

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Mood and Anxiety Symptoms in Persons Taking Prescription Opioids: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses of Longitudinal Studies 1.25 credits

This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the use of prescription opioids and the development of mood and anxiety symptoms. The study employs a systematic review and...

Anxiety, Depression, Opioids, Prescription Drugs

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Real-time Social Stress Response and Subsequent Alcohol Use Initiation Among Female Adolescents 1.5 credits

This article explores the relationship between social stress sensitivity and alcohol initiation among young female adolescents. It employs discrete-time survival analysis (DTSA) to investigate whether real-time social stress responses, induced...

Anxiety, Adolescents, Alcohol

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Treatment Knowledge

Understanding Addiction

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

CBT Supervision Behind Closed Doors: Supervisor and Supervisee Reflections on Their Experiences and Use of Clinical Supervision 1 credit

The authors of this study note that CBT (Cognitive behavioral therapy) supervision has lacked both quality control and empirical evidence to support efficacy. The authors of this study used a...

Supervision, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Supervision

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Ethical Humility in Social Work 1.5 credits

Exploration of the history of the concept of Ethical Humility and its implications for Social Work practice. This course explores the nature of ethical humility and its relevance to social...

Ethics

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Two-Year Outcomes of a Randomized, Family-Based Substance Use Prevention Trial for Asian American Adolescent Girls 1 credit

This course examines the use of family-based prevention programming on decreasing substance use for Asian American adolescent girls and modifying risk and protective factors.

Prevention, Prevention Education, Asian American

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

42 CFR Part 2 July 2020 Update 2 credits

This webinar discusses the final decisions made in the modification of Title 42 rule. The additional papers cover frequently asked questions and provide clarification on how Title 42 affects the...

Errors, Boundaries, Patient Safety

Professional Readiness

Ethics

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Native Spirit: Development of a Culturally Grounded After‐school Program to Promote Well‐being Among American Indian Adolescents 1 credit

This course describes the development and implementation of a culturally grounded after school program, Native Spirit (NS), for AI adolescents (grades 7–12) living on a Southwest urban‐based reservation. The development...

Indigenous communities, Prevention, Prevention Planning and Evaluating, Youth

Prevention

Cultural Diversity

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Group Therapy With Diverse Clients 2.25 credits

This course explores the research-practice gap in implementation of evidence-based (EBTs) in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. While clinical trials focus primarily on individual therapy, the majority of SUD specialty...

Groups, Minorities, Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI)

Cultural Diversity

Group Counseling

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Relative Effectiveness of Medications for Opioid-related Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials 1.5 credits

This course looks at the effectiveness of pharmacotherapeutic interventions with patients who are diagnosed with Opioid Use Disorder. The meta-analysis includes more than 70 studies and discusses findings of this...

Opioids, Pharmacotherapy

Pharmacology

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

New Treatment Pathways to Recovery: Medication Assisted Treatment With American Indian/Alaska Natives 1.5 credits

This course combines two recent research articles dealing with the acceptability of medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder among American Indian/Alaska Natives. The articles explore barriers to MAT treatment...

Indigenous communities, Pharmacotherapy, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

Application to Practice

Counseling (Theory and Techniques)

Treatment Knowledge

Cultural Diversity

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

What Is the Evidence for "Food Addiction"? 1.25 credits

A systematic review

This article is a systematic meta-analysis of quantitatively research comparing food addiction to substance use. The authors evaluated empirical studies examining the controversial construct of food addiction in humans and...

Understanding Addiction

Treatment Knowledge

Application to Practice

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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