This training, designed for Peer Recovery Specialists, will explore key ethical issues including confidentiality, boundaries, and dual relationships. This training also provides participants with a forum for examining contemporary ethical, legal, and socio-cultural...
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Ethics for Peer Recovery Specialists and Coaches
This training, designed for Peer Recovery Specialists, will explore key ethical issues including confidentiality, boundaries, and dual relationships. This training also provides participants with a forum for examining contemporary ethical, legal, and socio-cultural...
Gender Specific Care: From Initiation to Aftercare, Understanding the Needs of Women in Substance Use Treatment
In order to enhance client care and increase cultural competency the presentation will use research and case examples to highlight the importance of gender specific substance abuse treatment for women. Women often become addicted within the context of close...
Cultural Competency: Building Health Equity in the Workplace
This workshop is designed for the professional who hopes to gain a better understanding of culture and cultural competency issues and the ways to improve upon identifying and communicating with members of diverse populations. The participant will discover their own...
Addressing the Complex World of Personality Disorders
A personality disorder is a way of thinking, feeling and behaving that deviates from the expectations of the culture, causes distress or problems functioning, and lasts over time. Common to all personality disorders is a long-term pattern of behavior and inner...
Crisis Response: Neurobiology, Medical Consequences, and the Treatment of Alcohol Overdose and Severe Alcohol Withdrawal
This training will focus on the impact of alcohol on the entire system including neuro-biological change as well as medical complications from continued alcohol use. The participants will be able to identify symptoms of alcohol intoxication and impairment and alcohol...
PTSD: Trauma Informed Care
PTSD: Trauma Informed Care is an all day training in which participants will learn skills that assist in treating PTSD, include understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma. This training will provide an overview of trauma related...
Pregnancy and Addiction
This three-hour workshop provides participants with a comprehensive overview on pregnant women and addiction. The session emphasizes early intervention, and how crucial it is in the outcome for mother and child, as well as the specific and more unique treatments...
Tobacco Dependence: What You Need to Know to Help People Quit
We know smoking is killing the people we work with, but often we just don't know how to address it. Gain confidence in having the cessation conversation and creating effective referrals to treatment. You will learn how nicotine addiction affects the brain and how you...
Anger Management
This seminar is based on the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual developed by Patrick Reilly, Ph.D. and Michael Shopshire, Ph.D. for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment/SAMHSA. The anger management treatment design that will be taught in this course has been...