Telehealth for the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders (3 credit hours)
Program Summary: Telehealth modalities have been shown to increase access to treatment and improve health outcomes for individuals with severe mental illness and substance use disorder. This course examines how telehealth modalities can effectively treat individuals with SMI and SUD. Examples of evidence-based telehealth treatment interventions include Behavioral Activation Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, and Medication-Assisted Treatment. Implementation strategies and considerations are explored.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Reading: Telehealth for the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
Publisher: SAMHSA
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring telehealth for the treatment of serious mental illness and substance use disorders.
Learning Objectives: Describe benefits and challenges of telehealth practices. Give an example of a telehealth intervention that improves health outcomes for people with SMI. Describe strategies for implementing telehealth practices.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credits.
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.