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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.
Katy Hanlon from Arlington
November 12, 2009
3:53 PM
 
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For more information, click on the above link. It will take you back to the resource page. You then need to click on the text next to the globe icon at the top of the resource page.
Paula Coleman-Donkor from Dublin
August 19, 2009
9:21 PM
 
Hello,

How can I get more information regarding these training classes?