National Psychology Training Consortium

Intermediate --- Builds upon the learner's foundational knowledge, familiarity with the literature and/or experience in a content area. Programming at this level includes more depth than at a beginning level program. It could also serve as a refresher course for individuals who have background in a content area and are interested in learning more contemporary applications.

Course Description and Target Audience

This presentation will provide education on the disease of addiction, use of medication assisted treatment, and how to diagnose patients that present for care in a community mental health outpatient setting. This presentation will provide an overview of the critical substance use epidemic, discuss the use of mutual help groups, and provide insight into theoretical modalities for the treatment of addiction. his presentation is for mental health providers that work in an outpatient treatment setting to increase awareness of substance use, evaluate substance use, and to understand treatment options for patients. This presentation is for mental health providers that work in an outpatient treatment setting to increase awareness of substance use, evaluate substance use, and to understand treatment options for patients.

Unfortunately, the current prevalence of substance use continues to grow, with a significant increase with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation will increase awareness and knowledge related to patient care associated with substance use. This presentation is a brief overview and not meant to be a complete and total training on substance use disorders and treatment. The topic of substance use disorders is a broad topic and can be divided into many specific training areas. Therefore this training is meant to be an initial overview to encourage additional training in the field of addiction to provide quality patient care. There should not be any significant risks associated with this training, however the topic of substance use disorders is a sensitive subject matter that is associated with significant stigma, therefore with any topic related to vulnerable populations there is some potential for risk, which will be considered and addressed by the presenter. 

This presentation will incorporate diversity with examples specifically related to military and service members as a unique and diverse patient population, in addition to the wide variety of patients served in an outpatient setting, especially with FQHC and CMHC facilities.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to identify evidence-based treatment modalities for substance use disorders (SUD).
• Participants will be able to identify types of mutual help groups, describe how they work, and their role in SUD treatment.
• Participants will be able to explain the use of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), identify different types, application, and their role in SUD treatment.
• Participants will be able to discuss and demonstrate effective clinical skills to address SUD in an outpatient therapy setting.

Presenter Information

Dr. Winston is Board Certified in Addiction Psychology, Licensed as a Psychologist in 3 states, a Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor in KS and a Master Addiction Counselor. She has spent the majority of her career in the field of addiction and currently works at the Kansas City VA residential substance use program.

Live Training Format

Attendance for this live training will be tracked by attendees completing the following tasks:

• Attend the live training in full and review all provided documents in their entirety.
• The Live CE Training Evaluation will be provided to all attendees. Please be sure to complete this evaluation in addition to attending the training.
• Downloading the CE Certificate.
   

CE Certificate

This course includes the materials required to obtain a CE Certificate. Your certificate will be made available to you upon completion of the training course. 

Questions or Concerns?

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National Psychology Training Consortium (NPTC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NPTC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.