Continuing Education

Right Level, Right Time: Navigating ASAM Levels of Care for Alcohol Use Disorder

Learning objectives:

• Define alcohol use disorder (AUD) and briefly describe ways a professional may be able to screen and diagnose these patients.
• List and describe the six ASAM dimensions and explain how they influence level-of-care placement for individuals with alcohol use disorder.
• Differentiate between outpatient, intensive outpatient, high intensity outpatient, residential, and withdrawal management levels of care for AUD based on clinical risk factors.
• Identify at least three indicators that warrant referral to medically monitored or medically managed withdrawal services.
• Apply ASAM criteria to case examples to determine the most appropriate level of care.
• Formulate appropriate referral questions to improve placement accuracy and decrease time to safe placement.

Event link: https://tinyurl.com/ASAM-AUD

RSVP with Michelle Garduno here

The Intersection of Attachment Trauma and Addiction: Implications for Treatment

Learning objectives:

• Describe how childhood trauma and broken attachment bonds affect addiction.
• Distinguish how to treat clients who have an addiction, level of care options, and evidence-based treatment.
• Assess and refer a client for substance treatment.

Event link: http://www.tinyurl.com/attachment-trauma

RSVP with Tess Gordon here

Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)

Learning objectives:

• Define Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)

• Demonstrate knowledge of basic medication options for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD), including their risks, benefits, and side effects

• Compare outcomes for OUD patients treated with and without medication

Event link: https://tinyurl.com/MATandMOUD

RSVP with Deborah Lawton here

The Dialectics of DBT: Beyond the Skills

Learning objectives:

• Discover some of the correlations between behaviorism, brain development, and depression/anxiety in today’s younger generations.
• Consider the multifaceted approach of ‘dialectics’— that multiple opposing factors can all be true at once.
• Apply dialectics to work with clients to identify the challenges in their lives that stand in the way of their values.
• Understand and implement grounding and acceptance skills to promote lasting behavioral change in our clients.

Event link: tinyurl.com/careinstitutedbt

RSVP with Larry Baird here

Raising the Bar on Treatment Outcomes

Integrating Measurement-Based Care, Tracking Progress, and Utilizing Patient Data for Successful Outcomes

Learning objectives:

• To understand MBC and its benefits therein for therapeutic integration.
• To consider the multifaceted approaches in tracking client progress to improve outcomes.
• To identify processes and procedures toward implementing practices of MBC and ethical outcomes.
• To consider the importance of MBC in assessment of risk and higher level of care referrals.
• Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/MBCoutcomes2

Raising the Bar on Treatment Outcomes

Learning objectives:

• Explain measurement-based care and its benefits for therapeutic integration.
• Compare multifaceted approaches in tracking client progress to improve outcomes.
• Identify and describe processes and procedures for implementing measurement-based care practices and ethical outcomes reporting into their own practice or facility.
• Summarize the importance of MBC in assessment of risk and higher level of care referrals.

Working With LGBTQ+ Clients 101

Learning Objectives

• Describe one or more risk and protective factors for LGBTQ+ adolescents, adults, and their families for mental health conditions and substance use disorders.
• Utilize one or more strategies to integrate LGBTQ+-affirming care in their clinical practice.
• Utilize one or more strategies to support LGBTQ+ adolescents, adults, and/or their families in their cultural context.

Legal & Ethical Considerations with Children Adolescents, & Emerging Adults

Learning Objectives

• Apply the six common ethical principles identified by Beauchamp and Childress to dilemmas encountered by therapists working with children, adolescents and emerging adults
• Explain how the developmental readiness of children, adolescents, emerging adults and their parents influence each of the three elements of validly consenting or assenting to treatment
• Explain how the way a therapist handles LGBTQ+ and other sensitive issues might affect the therapeutic relationship, even with youth to whom those issues do not seem to apply
• And more!