Preventing the Use of Marijuana: Focus on Women and Pregnancy (2 credit hours)

Program Summary:   This course offers an overview of marijuana use during pregnancy and includes a discussion of contributing socioeconomic, personal, and risk factors.  Potential harms are examined.  The course explores broader evidence-based practices that focus on preventing substance misuse, including SBIRT, integrated clinics, health communication campaigns, contingency management, postpartum home visits, and policies.  Six effective prevention programs are highlighted.

This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.  

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Course Reading:  Preventing the Use of Marijuana:  Focus on Women and Pregnancy; Chapters 1-4

Publisher:  SAMHSA

Course Objectives:  To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring marijuana use during pregnancy.

Learning Objectives:  Identify risk factors for marijuana use during pregnancy.  Identify harms associated with marijuana use by pregnant and postpartum women.  Give an example of an effective practice to prevent substance use during pregnancy.

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Course Available Until: December 31, 2024.

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1: Chapter 1: THC has been found in breast milk for up to ______ days after maternal marijuana use.
 
 
 
 
2: A persisting pattern of cannabis use that results in clinically significant functional impairment in two or more domains within a 12-month period describes
 
 
 
 
3: Compared to women who do not use marijuana during pregnancy, women who use marijuana during pregnancy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4: __________ onset of marijuana use is associated with a higher risk of developing cannabis use disorder.
 
 
5: Many women who use marijuana during pregnancy believe it is relatively safe.
 
 
6: Compared to marijuana of 30 years ago, marijuana today is widely recognized as ________ potent.
 
 
7: Marijuana use is ________ common in pregnancies with severe nausea and vomiting.
 
 
8: Chapter 2: Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment best describes
 
 
 
 
9: The integrated clinic model has been around since the 1970's and the majority of states have these clinics.
 
 
10: Contingency management relies on what technique for treating SUD's?
 
 
 
 
11: Approximately 1 in _____________ women experience postpartum depression.
 
 
 
 
12: Chapter 3: The best available data comes from programs that focus on preventing _______________ among pregnant and postpartum women.
 
 
13: The Baby and Me Tobacco Free program features
 
 
 
 
14: Advertising restrictions feature
 
 
 
 
15: Chapter 4: Actions to address public misperception about the safety of marijuana use include
 
 
 
 
16: Actions to address reluctance among pregnant women to admit to marijuana use include:
 
 
 
 

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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 2 clinical 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.

Preventing the Use of Marijuana: Focus on Women and Pregnancy, Course #4874, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Free State Social Work, LLC as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 04/18/2023 - 04/18/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 clinical continuing education credits.

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 has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.

Course Available Until: December 31, 2024.
Filed under: Addiction, Clinical, Families, Women