• Pharmacology
• Intervening with the ATOD Adolescent
• Dual Disorders: Alcohol, Other Drug and Mental Illness
• Substance Abuse Among Older Adults
• Proposal Development and Grant Writing
• Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence
• Enhancing Motivation for Change
• Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders
• Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders
• Relapse Prevention
• Prevention Basics
• Prevention Principles for Scientifically Defensible Prevention Strategies
• Science-Based ATOD Abuse Prevention
• Prevention and Treatment Among Women
• Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth
• Substance Abuse Treatment with the Criminal Justice Offender

Brief Intervention and Therapies for Substance Abuse

Course developed by Pamela Petersen-Baston, CAP, CAPP.

This course links research to practice by providing counselors, therapists, and others who may be called on to intervene with a person who has substance abuse problems with up-to-date information on brief interventions and therapies. These interventions and therapies are less costly yet have proven effective in substance abuse treatment. Clinicians, clinical researchers, and policymakers have increasingly focused on them as tools to fill the gap between primary prevention efforts and more intensive treatment for persons with serious substance abuse disorders. Brief interventions can be used as a method of providing more immediate attention to clients on waiting lists for specialized programs, as an initial treatment for nondependent at-risk and hazardous substance users, and as adjuncts to more extensive treatment for substance-dependent persons. Brief therapies can be used to effect significant changes in clients' behaviors and their understanding of them.

topics covered

• Introduction to Brief Interventions and Therapies
  
  
• Brief Interventions in Substance Abuse Treatment
  
  
• Brief Therapy in Substance Abuse Treatment
  
  
• Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  
  
• Brief Strategic/Interactional Therapies
  
  
• Brief Humanistic and Existential Therapies
  
  
• Brief Psychodynamic Therapy
  
  
• Brief Family Therapy
  
  
• Time Limited Group Therapy

CEUs: 12

Continuing Education Units available for:

• Substance Abuse Professionals
  Content Area: Counseling
• Licensed Clinical Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Mental Health Workers
• Nurses

Contact us at (850) 878-2196 for more information or email us at Carol Hyden at chyden@fadaa.org.