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- Alcohol,
Drugs, and the Older Adult
- Description: Too
many times, health care providers recommend
that patients consume moderate alcohol to help them sleep
better, aid digestion, relieve stress, or reduce
anxiety. Alcohol does not do any
of these things and indeed exacerbates all of these problems,
negatively impacting the quality of life for many older
adults. This course provides information to train health care
providers and other professionals to recognize alcohol
dependence, abuse and other
related
problems
in
the older
adult. The content of the course is organized into seven areas
of 1):Epidemiology, 2): Identification
of Alcohol Problems, 3):Age-Related Changes, 4):Medical
Consequences of Heavy Drinking, 5):Over-the-Counter and
Prescription Drug Use/Abuse, 6):Screening, 7): Treatment.
An exam consisting of 25 multiple chpice items follow these
chapters.
- This
course is currently available as a Continuing Education
course. It will be available soon as an online course.
- Assessment
of Substance Related and Mental Health Disorders
- Description: This
course is to provide students with basic knowledge about
the feature, including similarities and differences, of
abuse and dependence of various substances. Students will
learn how to make adequate DSM-IV diagnoses of the same
disorders; learn to use different instruments for assessing
substance related disorders; learn to differentiate symptoms
of different kinds of disorders and corresponding treatments;
learn to use the Patient Criteria for Treatment of Substance-Related
Disorders; and learn to write reports based on their assessment
of the clients.
- Please visit our online course:
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/pattc/pattconline/assess
- Research
for the Research Phobic
- Description: The
goal of the course is to provide the substance abuse
counselor with little or no experience with research
with an overview of the research process. The course
does not require any prior knowledge about research or
statistics. It focuses on concepts related to research,
and it is not a statistics course.
- Please
visit our online course:
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/pattc/pattconline/
- Substance
Abuse Treatment for LGBT
- Description:
This course provides information for substance abuse counselors
and other professionals who might work primarily with lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people or who work primarily
with substance abusers. The content of the course is organized
into four units or modules followed by an exam consisting
of 30 multiple choice items and one essay question. The four
units include basic information, case studies, and discussion
questions to engage participants in four areas:1) An introduction
to LGBT issues, 2) Taking a sexual history and a drug/alcohol
history, 3) Substance use and abuse patterns and 4) Prevalence
and treatment issues.
- Please
visit our online course:
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/pattc/pattconline/LGBT
- Workshops
in Co-Occuring Disorders
- Workshops
in Evidence Based Treatment
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