Course Category: Addictions, Substance Use

This course exams trauma and its impacts. It is based on TIP 27. It includes: trauma and substance use disorders, trauma and mental disorders, trauma-informed treatment principles, types of trauma,...  Read More

This course deals with drug and recovery cultures. It includes an explanation of what drug cultures are and their role in substance abuse treatment as well as: how drug cultures...  Read More

This course examines behavioral health treatment for major racial and ethic groups. It includes: Counseling for African and Black Americans. Counseling for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders,...  Read More

This course examines trauma specific services in trauma-informed care. It includes: trauma-specific treatment models, Addiction and Trauma Recovery Integration Model (ATRIUM), Beyond Trauma: A Healing for Women, Concurrent Treatment of...  Read More

This course address clinical issues across services. It includes: trauma-informed prevention and treatment objectives, treatment issues and making referrals to trauma-specific services, building trust, building resilience, pacing and timing, grief...  Read More

This course discusses screening and assessment in trauma informed care. It includes: barrier and challenges to trauma-informed screening and assessment, cross-cultural screening and assessment, choosing instruments, and trauma-informed screening and...  Read More

This review discusses the importance of investigating both sex and gender differences in addiction and relapse in studies of humans and in animal models. Addiction is both a cultural and...  Read More

This course examines a singular effective treatment for co-occurring PTSD and addiction. The authors chose to study women, as they prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder is markedly higher in women...  Read More

This course discusses adapting two evidence based treatments for substance use disorder so that they are culturally appropriate for American Indian/Alaska Native populations. A small random control trial is conducted...  Read More

This course examines brief humanistic and existential therapies and brief psychodynamic therapy. It includes: humanistic and existential therapies, the humanistic approach to therapy, client-centered therapy, narrative therapy, transpersonal therapy, Gestalt...  Read More

Strategic/interactional therapies attempt to identify the client’s strengths and actively create personal and environmental situations where success can be achieved. In these therapies, the focus is on the individual’s strengths...  Read More

This course is a condensed version of TIP 50, Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment. It includes: consensus panel recommendations, types of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, getting...  Read More

This course discusses core competencies for counselors and other clinical staff. It includes: core counselor competencies self-assessment for individual cultural competence, self-knowledge, and cultural knowledge of behavioral health. It has...  Read More

This course is an overview of the TIP in the executive summary and Chapter 1. It covers the following: core assumptions, what is cultural competence? Why is cultural competence important,...  Read More

This research intensive course examines various aspects of treatment in racial and ethnic groups and sexual minorities. Evidence-based practices were used to study alcohol use, abuse, and dependence in ethnic...  Read More

This course cover domestic violence and child maltreatment. It includes: screening for survivors, survivor treatment plans, issues of child abuse and neglect, screening techniques and questions for batterers, treatment planning...  Read More

This course examines the effect of sexual orientation and gender on alcohol use, using graduated frequency measures and drinking contexts. Binge drinking patterns were studied. Sexual identity was shown to...  Read More

The book upon which this course is based provides information about the drugs people use and the ways people get high. The authors present a realistic informative handbook without bias...  Read More

A quick guide for clinicians regarding the basic principles and management of group therapy. This is an overview of the role and efficacy of group therapy in substance abuse treatment...  Read More

These articles discuss the use of motivational interviewing (MI) as a treatment for adolescent alcohol use. One article focuses on MI’s impact of heavy drinking days and the other looks...  Read More