(NEWLY UPDATED COURSE DESCRIPTION): Working with persons from diverse backgrounds in any discipline requires that professionals engage in a culturally responsive manner that can essentially increase the likelihood of successful outcomes for both agencies and consumers. This skills building training is designed to instruct on agency and systems level issues of culture including how bias and macroaggressions impact persons of marginalized communities, contrasting cultural values within the spectrum of dominant culture, the influence of client culture on engagement and communication for both provider and client and approaches to enhance collaboration, and culturally informed strategies for when visiting clients in their home.
The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course covers the highest quality, evidence- based practices for treating patients with opioid use disorder.
This course covers all medications and treatments for opioid use disorder, and provides the required education needed to obtain the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine.
This is an 8-hour blended course combining 4 hours of online learning followed by 4 hours of live learning. The live portion of the course builds off the content delivered in the online portion. Course faculty are expecting you to come to the live course with the online portion completed.
Face-to-Face Training
This two-day Motivational Interviewing (MI) Academy is a unique intensive workshop that includes multiple opportunities for participants to practice MI skills and receive individualized mentoring and feedback. Academy participants will learn and improve their MI skills through use of videos, real-plays, exercises, and scoring of recorded clinical sessions. Training participants can track their MI proficiency and skill development via the new MyMI web portal. Upon completion of the Academy, and submission of two work samples, participants will receive a completion certificate demonstrating their individualized MI proficiency level.
Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, goal-oriented method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. Studies on learning MI have shown, individual coaching and feedback contribute substantially to enhance of MI skills.
THIS EVENT IS FOR KING COUNTY PROVIDERS; REGISTRATION BY SPECIAL INVITATION ONLY.
Developing Clinical Supervision Skills I is for the beginning supervisor as well as those who have experience in clinical supervision. Participants will have an opportunity to learn a model of Clinical Supervision that includes observation of counselors, providing feedback, rating counselor performance, and writing a professional development plan to improve counselor performance. Training methods will include lecture, role play, and group assignments. The goal of this model is to improve counselor performance, structure clinical supervision, and provide a combination of teaching, training, and mentoring for counselors. Behavioral health professionals will find this training applicable in many clinical settings.
Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic model for evoking and enhancing people's intrinsic motivation to change unhealthful behaviors that are inconsistent with their values and goals. In this workshop, participants will learn the techniques of motivational interviewing and how to apply them in their clinical work, particularly in the context of substance abuse treatment.
This course will review the Ethics Code for OASAS Counselors. Topics include: definitions and foundations of ethics, principles and problem areas, professional responsibility and counselor considerations. Confidentiality will also be reviewed. There will be case studies, discussion, and information on technology and ethics.
Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic model for evoking and enhancing people's intrinsic motivation to change unhealthful behaviors that are inconsistent with their values and goals. In this workshop, participants will learn the techniques of motivational interviewing and how to apply them in their clinical work, particularly in the context of substance abuse treatment.
THIS EVENT IS FOR KING COUNTY PROVIDERS; REGISTRATION BY SPECIAL INVITATION ONLY.
This King County-sponsored Motivational interviewing (MI) training session provides social service, medical and behavioral health professionals with evidence-based methods for creating a person-centered approach to service delivery. MI is especially useful for partnering with patients and clients to conduct education and promote healthy behavior changes.
This training will emphasize an engaging and skill-based instructional approach to appeal to learners of all types. Participants will be given many opportunities to observe, practice, receive feedback and interact with trainers and peers. The training is designed for professionals working in health care, mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and case management.
The South Africa HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Centre (ATTC) was launched on 17-18 January, 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. The launch event was attended by representatives from 20 unique organisations. These included regional and national non-governmental organisations involved in the delivery of care for HIV, substance use disorders and mental illness; as well as provincial and national government. Attendees shared their expertise and provided strategic input to the newly formed ATTC. The launch event additionally marked the constitution of the National Advisory Board, whose ongoing strategic and technical contribution will greatly assist the ATTC in ensuring the appropriateness and relevance of our training and technical assistance offerings.
Face-to-Face Training
This interactive, one day course will provide an in-depth overview of the rationale, approach, and benefits of care to be more trauma-informed.
Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic model for evoking and enhancing people's intrinsic motivation to change unhealthful behaviors that are inconsistent with their values and goals. In this workshop, participants will learn the techniques of motivational interviewing and how to apply them in their clinical work, particularly in the context of substance abuse treatment.
This course provides an overview of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET) a cognitive rehabilitation program for adults with chronic or early course schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. CET involves cognitive training to improve memory skills and social functioning.
Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic model for evoking and enhancing people's intrinsic motivation to change unhealthful behaviors that are inconsistent with their values and goals. In this workshop, participants will learn the techniques of motivational interviewing and how to apply them in their clinical work, particularly in the context of substance abuse treatment.
Cannabis legalization in California has raised many questions and concerns regarding the effect that it will have on the marijuana industry and the general population. This lecture will begin with an overview of the Cannabis Laws in California that have been developed throughout the years. There will be discussion of various issues that have occurred during the time of pre-legalization, and how these issues will change after the legalization of cannabis.
The afternoon presentation will review current knowledge of psychosocial and health effects of cannabis use. Functional outcomes associated with cannabis use including school and work performance, medical conditions, cognition, quality of life, and psychiatric symptoms will be discussed. Co-occurring psychiatric disorders observed in cannabis users will be reviewed, including a discussion of early cannabis use as a risk factor for development of psychosis.
The lecture will conclude with a panel discussion.
This webinar addresses the opioid public health crisis. This comprehensive course was developed by renowned experts from Collaborative for REMS Education (CO*RE) and incorporates all six units outlined in FDA blueprint for safe opioid prescribing. ASAM's course also provides an additional unit addressing the common and complex overlap between opioid use and opioid addiction. The American Society of Addiction Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Meet the Great Lakes ATTC staff and learn about our priority areas for technical assistance and training.
Face-to-Face Training
This training is designed to provide participants with an overview of the moral concepts of goodness, right, and obligation, and the ways in which they operate in society, religion, and law. These concepts are further enhanced during the classroom discussions and group work. Videos and self-assessments will be utilized to encourage participation.
Providing care and support for disaster survivors can be enriching professional and personal experience that enhances satisfaction through helping others. And also can be physically and emotionally exhausting. This workshop will help SSA service providers identify fatigue signs and strategies to promote self-care.
This course will define and explore stress and the process of vicarious traumatization. A model of worker self-care will also be presented and participants will review their own self-care behaviors.
This 1-day, 6.5 hour workshop provides behavioral health counselors an opportunity to consider the potential impact of using Motivational Interviewing (MI) methods in facilitating counseling groups. The workshop includes brief instructional presentations, demonstrations, structured learning activities, and group facilitation skill practice, all within an MI framework. Clinicians who facilitate groups using a structured, manual-based format and those who utilize more process-focused methods will benefit equally from the workshop. It should be noted, however, that this workshop does not serve as a basic introduction to MI or to group facilitation. It is assumed that participants will have a basic understanding of MI and group facilitation.
This course is designed for professionals already providing clinical supervision in an addictions treatment, prevention, or mental health setting, who have already participated in the Clinical Supervision Foundations Workshop. The workshop will include both didactic presentation and experiential practice of materials through role-play scenarios. Material covered will include: Decision making process in determining the type of supervisory method used for specific supervisee development stages; Navigating ethical dilemmas encountered by supervisees; Setting up and facilitating team meetings, and; Using technology in direct observation.
Advances in technology and the availability/access to the Web are impacting how behavioral health professionals deliver treatment services and what constitutes typical standards of care. In addition, these changes effect ethical issues like therapist self disclosure, boundary crossings and boundary violations, confidentiality, and informed consent. In 2014 behavioral health professionals face a myriad of new ethical dilemmas, with little guidance from ethical codes that do not address these emerging issues. This presentation will review the current literature regarding new ethical dilemmas related to technology and the Web, and provide guidance and recommendations for behavioral health professionals. Specifically, this workshop will discuss: 1) History of Technology Use in Counseling; 2) Digital Types; 3) Social Media; 4) Therapist Self-Disclosure; 5) Emailing & Texting/Messaging Patients; and 6) Social Media Policies.
Face-to-Face Training
THIS IS A CLOSED EVENT FOR SELECTED PROVIDERS.
A collaborative team, including the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS), the Institute for Health & Recovery, Dan Dubovsky, M.S.W., and Tommie Ann Bower, M.A., using NIATx Process Improvement coaching, is excited to announce a capacity-building opportunity for residential substance use treatment providers (men, women and adolescent/transitional youth). Selected providers will participate in a learning community focused on improving the capacity of organizations to serve clients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
This course is designed to train front-line staff to provide basic education about PEP/PrEP to clients who might benefit from the intervention.
