Posted 24 Mar 2010 - 10:38 by root
If you are ready to sacrifice some of your sleep next Thursday, 1st April at 4am there is an interesting opportunity to hear from American and Canadian professionals about "Integrating Treatment for Co-occurring Disorders".
This free webinar was organised and sponsored by Hazelden Publishing, NAADAC The Association for Addiction Professionals and Westbridge Community Services.
Participants will be able to:
• Talk about the prevalence of co-occurring disorders in substance abuse treatment programs
• Contrast co-occurring treatment with traditional addiction treatment
• Give a rationale for integrated treatment
• List instruments helpful for screening
• Describe evidence-based therapies helpful in treating co-occurring disorders
• Access new training programs available through NAADAC and Hazelden
Part 1: What does it mean, co-occurring?
• Introductions
• How prevalent are co-occurring disorders?
• Why integrated treatment?
Part 2: What is co-occurring treatment and how is it different from
traditional addiction treatment?
• Definition of integrated treatment
• How do we determine appropriate treatment placement?
• Screening for co-occurring disorders
• Combined therapies
Part 3: Training opportunities
• "Integrating Treatment: An Introduction to What Every Counselor Needs to Know"
• In-person training
• Distance education
The webinar will be running:
- at US Eastern time 1.00pm Wednesday, 31st March
- at Australian Eastern standard time 4am, Thursday, 1st April
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