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- Objectives
- Identify essential information required for providing effective treatment to patients with opioid substance abuse issues
- Identify essential information to be provided to patients seeking medication assisted treatment
- List the symptoms of opiate intoxication, overdose and withdrawal
- Identify required components of the medical assessment prior to beginning an opioid treatment program
- Identify the components of the induction assessment
- Accurately determine the level of patient readiness
- Identify the components of a comprehensive assessment
- Describe the most common medications used in the treatment of opioid dependence and their method and setting of delivery
- Identify the possible side effects of opioid agonist and partial agonist therapy
- Identify possible drug interactions with methadone and their effects
- Describe strategies to prevent or minimize harmful drug interactions in medication assisted therapy was identify medications or substances that alter opioid medication levels in the body
- Describe the criteria for take-home medications and maximum take-home doses
- Identify the six recommended focuses for counseling in medication assisted therapy
- Identify the eight standard components of counseling in medication assisted therapy
- Describe the five types of group counseling formats in medication assisted therapy
- Identify the 15 common topics for patient educational sessions in medication assisted therapy
- Describe the characteristics of the treatment plan appropriate during medication assisted therapy
- Identify possible associated medical problems commonly seen in patients presenting for medication assisted therapy
- Identify frequently use substance combinations and common reasons for use
- Understand the difference between opiate agonists and opiate antagonists
$90.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Provide the client and significant others with clarification and further information as needed regarding the treatment program
- Examine ethical and legal standards in counseling
- Discuss what needs to be covered during orientation
- Explore effective communication styles
- List factors affecting the client's comprehension of assessment findings
- Discuss client rights
$6.00 for 90 days - Objectives:
- Define addictions
- Identify different types of addictions
- Define different types of addictive thinking
- Identify reasons for engaging in addictive behavior
$12.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Describe essential attitudes for conducting effective assessments
- Select and use a comprehensive assessment process that is sensitive to age, gender, racial and ethnic cultural issues, and disabilities
- Identify considerations to assess validity/reliability and usefulness of various objective testing instruments
- Conducting comprehensive assessment interviews and collecting information from collateral sources.
- Differentiate between the function of screening and assessment
- Identify multiple sources of information for the assessment
- Identify types of questions for each area of the mental status exam
- Identify differences in assessment across special populations (women, homeless, criminal justice)
$12.00 for 90 days Objective
- Define sex and pornography addiction
- Compare and contrast sex addiction with drug addiciton
- Identify tools that can assist sex addicts
- Explore current protocols for early recovery of the sex addict
- Identify issues that may impact the relationship and ways to engage the significant other in the recovery process
$12.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Identify the eight steps of psychiatric management for persons with panic disorder
- Explain how to select the most appropriate treatment settings
- Summarize the psychopharmacological recommendations for treating panic disorder
- Summarize the length of treatment and the tapering process
- Identify the types of psychoeducation we should be provided to patients with panic disorder
- Identify five ways to increase treatment compliance
- Summarize psychosocial interventions for panic disorder
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different treatment modalities
$18.00 for 90 days Objectives:
- The student will be able to identify:
- Continuum of drug use
- Varying courses
- Effects of chronic co-occurring disorders on
- Patients
- Significant Others
- Community
- Relationship between infectious diseases and addiction
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Define neurotransmitters and what role they may play in drug use and mental illness
- Identify common drugs of abuse, signs of intoxication & withdrawal
- Develop a protocol for patient evaluation
- Identify resources to research medications and drugs patients may be taking
- Hypothesize reasons for possible accidental overdose
$12.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Review the function of the most common neurotransmitters (Dopamine, Serotonin, GABA, Glutamate, Norepinephrine, Acetylcholine)
- Explore how different drugs interact with brain chemistry to produce the reward
- Learn how the brain's natural protective mechanisms actually cause withdrawal symptoms, and what that means
- Identify mental health issues associated with imbalances between these neurochemicals
- Examine ways to deal with chemical imbalances
$6.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Identify the primary medications used to manage substance withdrawal and describe when they should be used
- Identify the drugs currently FDA-approved for the treatment of substance use disorders
- Identify a patient's stage of disease and whether and when to use pharmacotherapy including key indications and contraindications.
- To identify and define the purpose of 9 types of psychotropic drug classes.
- To name common side effects and risks of these classes of drugs.
- To list the five strategies for aiding tobacco users willing to quit (Five A's) and unwilling to quit (5 Rs).
- To identify and describe life-threatening syndromes that can develop as a result of taking psychopharmacological medication.
- To educate the counselor in ways to encourage medication compliance in client sessions.
- Discuss the different self-help group options
- Evaluate the pros and cons of each type of self-help group
$24.00 for 90 days