This training will provide an overview and discussion of the 'nature of helping' relationships between a healthcare professional and client. It will cover the components and the steps in building such relationships including trust and confidentiality. Various types of...
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Ethical Challenges Facing Administrators and Leaders in Behavioral Health: Moral and Risk Management Implications
This advanced training, designed for agency executives and program administrators, will explore complex ethical and risk-management challenges that arise in behavioral health organizations. This unique training will be provided by an attorney and ethics expert who...
Trauma in the Latino Community
As mental health providers, it is important for us to distinguish the diversity within the Latino population as we assess and treat trauma. During this presentation, we will discuss the diversity within the Latino community in Rhode Island and how trauma impacts the...
Evidence-Based & Emerging Best-Practices for Treating Co-Occurring Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders & Other Health Conditions
This one-day interactive workshop will provide participants with different models for integrating care-delivery. An emphasis on understanding how practitioner attitudes and beliefs about abstinence, self-help, and medication assisted treatment impact treatment...
Trauma and Substance Use in Families
This training will examine the co-occurrence of trauma and substance use, and review the negative effects of both on family systems. The course will explore how substance use and trauma related issues are impacting the child welfare system, and address the frequency...
Cultural Competency to Reduce Health Disparities: Techniques and Strategies in Clinical Settings
This course is designed to highlight and explore the needs of addiction service professionals working with culturally diverse individuals, organizations, and communities. Participants will be able to understand the role of behavioral health disparities, cultural...
Mental Health Screening and the Latino Population (Held in Spanish)
This training will be conducted fully in the Spanish language. As bi-lingual health providers, we must learn the accurate clinical terminology to communicate with our clients in order to screen, assess and engage them effectively. During this training, you will learn...
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Persons With Opioid Use Disorder: Treatment Protocols
This course presents a protocol for providing clinical intervention that incorporates stages of recovery and the stages of change (trans-theoretical theory). A generic outline of treatment objectives is followed by discussions of how this model will benefit working...
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...
Clinical Administrative Supervision
This training provides an overview of the multi-disciplinary definitions and perspectives of the process of Clinical Supervision. It draws from the literature and best practices of social work, nursing, and psychology models. It includes the roles of the Clinical...