Treatment Considerations for Youth and Young Adults with Serious Emotional Disturbances, Serious Mental Illnesses and Co-occurring Substance Use (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores treatment considerations for youth with SED and young adults with SMI and co-occurring substance use. It offers an overview of risk and protective factors, impact of the problem, and barriers to treatment. The course examines three treatment practices: cognitive behavioral therapy, multidimensional family therapy, and pharmacotherapy. Five program examples are given.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Course Reading: Treatment Considerations for Youth and Young Adults with Serious Emotional Disturbances/ Serious Mental Illnesses and Co-Occurring Substance Use, Chapters 1 – 4
Publisher: SAMHSA
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring treatment considerations for youth with SED and young adults with SMI. Identify considerations for implementing treatment practices.
Learning Objectives: Describe the current understanding of common mental illness co-occurring with substance misuse or substance use disorders. Identify barriers to treatment. Compare CBT, MDFT, and pharmacotherapy.
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 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.
Treatment Considerations for Youth and Young Adults with Serious Emotional Disturbances, Serious Mental Illnesses and Co-Occurring Substance Use, Course #4597, 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: 12/08/2022 - 12/08/2024. 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.