Introductions to Bipolar Disorder and Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder with Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course explores two mental disorders: Bipolar Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. For each disorder, the course provides an overview of symptoms, diagnosis, screening, evidence-based treatments, and recovery. In addition, the course identifies special considerations for co-occurring substance use disorders.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
1st reading: An Introduction to Bipolar Disorder and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders
Find 1st reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/bipolardisorderandsud.pdf
2nd Reading: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Substance Use Disorders
Find 2nd reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/ocdandsud.pdf
Publication: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder and co-occurring substance use disorders.
Learning Objectives: Describe DSM-5 criteria for bipolar disorder / OCD. Describe treatment recommendations (pharmacological and psychosocial therapy) for bipolar disorder / OCD. Describe the concept of integrated treatment. Identify Dimensions of Recovery and Dimensions of Wellness.
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: 9/6/2018 - 9/6/2021. Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical 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.