Total CE Credit Hours: 5
Course Info URL: https://www.ce-credit.com/courses/102615
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About the Course:
This course covers chapters 7 and 8 of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)/SAMHSA publication entitled Substance Abuse Treatment: Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP 51): Addressing the Specific Needs of Women. Chapter 7 covers specific substance abuse treatment recommendations for female clients, as well as the research supporting the recommendations. Chapter 8 discusses recovery management and administrative considerations. TIP 51 is an in-depth guide that assists providers in offering screening, assessment, and treatment to women living with substance use disorders. This guide reviews gender-specific research and best practices, such as common patterns of initial use and specific treatment issues and strategies to utilize when working with women who use/abuse substances. Specific recommendations are provided to assist clinicians and administrators in developing and maintaining trauma-informed therapeutic healing programs designed to meet the specific needs of female clients.
This course is based on the reading-based online, TIP 51 Substance Abuse Treatment: Addressing the Specific Needs of Women: Management Considerations, Recovery Management and Treatment created by Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), part of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 2015.
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Recommended For:
This course is recommended for all behavioral/mental health professionals who are seeking additional knowledge about the prevention and treatment of substance use/misuse/addiction, particularly as these topics impact women. This course is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.
Course Objectives:
Identify and discuss the gender-specific factors that significantly influence treatment retention of women, and describe women’s specific treatment issues and needs.
Discuss the role of trauma in substance abuse and co-occurring disorders, the use of trauma-informed services, and the provision of integrated treatment for women with trauma-related symptoms and substance use disorders.
Identify and discuss the most critical aspects of recovery management, as well as the benefits of consumer participation in programming, the characteristics of a healing environment for treatment, and the main components of program planning/administration and staff development.
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Course Material
This exam only covers Chapter 7 and 8 of the TIP.
References begin on page 197.
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