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.
Buprenorphine waiver training is available for physicians interested in seeking their waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid use disorders. To obtain the waiver to prescribe, providers are required to take eight (8) hours of training.
Following training, physicians who have successfully completed the course may apply to the SAMHSA to obtain the waiver. PCSS-MAT urges all physicians who complete the course to submit a Notice of Intent Form to SAMHSA to obtain their waiver to prescribe. The waiver must be completed online and a link to the online form will be provided to participants following the training.
PCSS-MAT has a comprehensive library of materials available at no cost created to give physicians confidence in treating these complex patients. PCSS-MAT has a no-cost clinical coaching/mentoring program (http://pcssmat.org/mentoring/) to provide one-on-one expert help to primary care providers.
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.
Face-to-Face Training
Arizona is currently in the midst of an opioid epidemic, with record numbers of overdose deaths and other drug-related harms occurring. This crisis spans across all age and socioeconomic groups, and has the largest impact on people who use prescription opioid painkillers. Medication has proven to be an indispensable tool in reducing preventable overdose death, both as treatment for opioid use disorders, and as an emergency response tool when an overdose occurs. This workshop will discuss the various medications used in substance abuse treatment, and will also teach participants how to educated patients and clients on opioid safety and overdose prevention, recognition of an overdose, and use of naloxone to revive and overdose victim. Steps for incorporating overdose prevention programming in your agency and streamlining naloxone distribution for patients and clients will be discussed. Free naloxone kits will be made available at the end of the workshop.
The New England Association of Drug Court Professionals presents workshops including the following specialty courts: drug courts, veterans courts, DWI courts and Juvenile Family courts.
This one day course is similar to the half day but includes more exercises and discussion. It will review crystal meth in the MSM community, describe routes of administration, reasons why MSM use it, treatment options, and barriers to treatment.
Face-to-Face Training
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented method of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is intended to strengthen personal motivation for & commitment to a change goal by eliciting and exploring an individuals own arguments for change. This evidenced-based practice is used in numerous settings including: addictions & mental health care, primary care, emergency rooms, public health care, criminal justice, street outreach & shelters, and child welfare.
This targeted Training of Trainers (TOT) is designed to increase the participant's knowledge of Motivational Interviewing techniques and its utility in behavioral health practices. In our ongoing effort to effectively address disparities of care and increase access to care in culturally and/or ethnically underrepresented communities, we encourage people of diverse backgrounds to enroll in this very important training.
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This full day workshop will address the unique issues of getting to viral suppression through Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) adherence in adolescents as well those aging up with HIV/AIDS. Experts in the field will provide current information pertaining to the timeline from treatment to viral suppression of HIV including barriers, patient advocacy, and best practices, through informative interactive presentations. ** Registration information will be available soon.
Face-to-Face Training
Due to advances of medical treatment for HIV, what was once a fatal and disabling disease is now a chronic manageable condition. This one day course will review the basics of HIV/AIDS, outline the changes in medications and medication management, and look at how these changes affect clients today. In addition, there will be a module on HCV.
Face-to-Face Training
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented method of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is intended to strengthen personal motivation for & commitment to a change goal by eliciting and exploring an individuals own arguments for change. This evidenced-based practice is used in numerous settings including: addictions & mental health care, primary care, emergency rooms, public health care, criminal justice, street outreach & shelters, and child welfare.
