Common Comorbidities with Substance Use Disorders (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course explores the common comorbidities that occur with substance use disorders. Many people who develop substance use disorders also experience other illnesses such as mental illness, chronic physical health conditions, and HIV. These disorders often occur together or co-occur. The course explores the connections between these comorbid conditions along with approaches to diagnosis and treatment.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Publisher: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to common comorbidities with substance use disorders.
Learning Objectives: Identify the three main pathways that can contribute to the comorbidity between substance use disorders and mental illnesses. Describe common risk factors that can contribute to both mental illness and substance use and addiction. Identify treatments for comorbid substance use disorder and mental health conditions. Describe methods for HIV prevention and treatment for individuals with substance use disorders.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.