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  • NBCC 5951

Next Renewal: Dec 27th, 2024

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A Self-Inquiry Into Race Socialization & Internalized Whiteness: For Therapists Treating Racial Trauma Among BIPOC Clients 3 credits

Throughout our own development, we have been exposed to direct and indirect messages about race, racism and our own racial identity, contributing to our own race socialization. Embedded in these...  Read More

Material Cost $30

Recorded Webinar

Implicit Bias Training: Increasing Understanding Towards Reducing Barriers and Disparities in Access to and Delivery of Physical and Mental Health Care Services 3 credits

Physical and Mental health professionals cannot ignore the impact that various forms of bias play into the barriers to and disparities experience in the delivery of care. For instance, the...  Read More

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Recorded Webinar

Telehealth for the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders 3.5 credits

This course examines the role and implementation of telehealth in the treatment of Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Substance Use Disorders (SUD.) It includes an issue brief, what the research...  Read More

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Reading-Based Online

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic- Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use-Summary and Introduction 2 credits

This course examines the opioid epidemic and the measures that have been taken to decrease OUD. It includes: the charge of the current study, the study approach, definitions and terminology,...  Read More

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Reading-Based Online

Pain Management and the Intersection of Pain and Opioid Use Disorder 3 credits

This course examines pain management and ways to reduce chances of the patient developing OUD by using other methods for treating pain. It includes: the scope of the problem of...  Read More

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Reading-Based Online

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic-Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use- Progress and Future Directions 3 credits

This is an advanced course that examines the neurobiology of addiction, how the currents research fails to recognize this, and how prescribed use leads to opioid misuse. It covers alternatives...  Read More

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Reading-Based Online

An Argument for Change in Tobacco Treatment Options Guided by the ASAM Criteria for Patient Placement 1.25 credits

This article examines the idea of treating tobacco use disorder like substance use disorder. While smoking kills over 480,000 people in the US annually, treatment has been nominal compared to...  Read More

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Reading-Based Online

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...  Read More

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Reading-Based Online

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...  Read More

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Reading-Based Online

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