Brief Interventions with Co-Occurring Addiction and Mental Disorders (20 Hours)
Objectives
- Differentiate brief interventions from traditional interventions
- Identify reasons for using brief interventions
- Identify barriers to increasing the use of brief treatments
- Evaluate recent inventions and therapies for their appropriateness with a given client or population
- Identify methods for evaluating the effectiveness of treatment methodologies used
- Identify the stages-of-change from the Prochaska and Diclemente model
- Define the acronym FRAMES
- Identify the five basic steps brief interventions use to incorporate FRAMES
- Identify the effective use of workbooks in brief therapy
- Identify ways brief interventions can be beneficial in substance abuse treatment settings
- Understand research findings regarding the effectiveness and appropriate use of brief interventions
- Identify the stages necessary for programs using brief therapy approaches
- Identify appropriate populations with which to use brief interventions
- Differentiate between Brief Cognitive-behavioral therapy, brief strategic interactional therapy, brief humanistic therapy, Brief psychodynamic therapy, Brief family therapy and time-limited group therapy
- Identify the principles of each of the aforementioned Brief therapeutic strategies
- Effectively match patients to the most effective Brief therapeutic strategy