Online and Distance Learning Opportunities

SAMHSA's Knowledge Application Program (KAP) Launches a New E-Learning Course

The course is based on the acamprosate Substance Abuse Treatment Advisory published in fall 2005. Users who successfully complete the course will receive one NAADAC-approved continuing education unit (CEU) at no cost and can print out their CEU certificate. The course is self-paced so that users can log out of the course and return at a later time to continue where they left off. If unsuccessful, users can take the course again.

More information is available at Acamprosate: A New Medication for Alcohol Use Disorders

The goal of the course is to provide substance abuse counselors with little or no experience with research with an overview of the research process.

- Course is online and can be taken at any time

- 8 CEUs

- More information is available at http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/pattc/pattconline

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to assessment issues and tools related to substance abuse and mental health disorders.

- Course is online and can be taken at any time

- 3 CEUs

- More information is available at http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/pattc/pattconline/assess/home.asp

This course provides information for substance abuse counselors and other professionals who might work primarily with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people or who work primarily with substance abusers.

- Course is online and can be taken at any time

- 15 CEUs

- More information is available at http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/pattc/pattconline/LGBT/

A supplemental curriculum developed for the text, A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals, First Edition, published by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), in 2001. The curriculum offers skill-building knowledge enhancing practical abilities to offer sensitive, affirmative, culturally relevant, and effective treatment to LGBT individuals in substance use disorders treatment.

This is a series of 8 correspondence courses from Training Resources. Order the training sessions and they will be delivered to your door. Upon successful course completion you will receive a certificate of completion. Each educational session is eligible for Substance Abuse CEUs. More information is available at http://www.trainres.affiniscape.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=5#twtcoursesoffered

- Alcohol: Understanding and Treating the Abuser and Addict

- Marijuana: Understanding and Treating the Abuser and Addict

- From Disgrace to Grace: The Neurobiology and Pharmacology of Dependence, Shame, Anger and Recovery

- The Evidence Based Treatment of Co-occurring Disorders

- A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals

- Working with Individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Issues

- DOA: Drugs of Abuse Today

- A Treatment Improvement Protocol, TIP 42 for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders