Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores adolescent substance use and the unique treatment needs of teens. The course provides an overview of the developing adolescent brain and the vulnerabilities that teens face when confronting substance use. The reading offers 13 Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Treatment and includes Frequently Asked Questions, a discussion of Treatment Settings, and Evidence-Based Approaches to treating adolescent substance use disorders.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice.
Find the reading at: https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/podata_1_17_14.pdf
Course Reading: Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Research-Based Guide
Publisher: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to adolescent substance use disorder treatment.
Learning Objectives: Describe factors that influence adolescent substance use. Define the term neuroplasticity. Describe how adolescent drug use can progress to addiction. Identify evidence-based approaches to treating adolescent SUDs. Describe various recovery support services.
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 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.