Distance learning program, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
Description:
Provides a range of health care professionals—including addiction treatment providers, counselors, social workers, nurses, psychologists, and physicians—with access to continuing education courses covering a range of topics relating to advances in addiction treatment and prevention.
Representative courses include the following:
• The Core Functions of Addictions Counseling
• Adolescent Chemical Dependency: Current Perspectives and Treatment Approaches
• Developing Culturally Competent Recovery Plans—Person-Centered Planning Using the Recovery Mode
• Tobacco Cessation Treatment: Best Practices
• Substance Use Issues in Gay and Lesbian Clients: Considerations for Effective Practice
• Effective Strategies for Engaging Youth with Co-occurring Disorders
• Understanding and Utilizing 12-Step Programs
• Understanding the Language of Warriors: Substance Abuse Treatment for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
• Speed Still Kills: The Growing Methamphetamine Problem
• Drug Treatment Courts: An Integrated Approach
• HIV and Addictions: Dispelling the Myths
• Dual Diagnosed Treatment: A MAP to Recovery
• Clinician Self-Care for Addiction Counselors and Clinical Supervisors
Courses have been approved by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors for educational credits.