Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course examines how early childhood prevention interventions can help reduce substance abuse as well as other mental, emotional, and behavior problems. The course looks at intervention efforts that aim to reduce risk factors and promote protective factors for young children. The course offers 7 principles of substance abuse prevention for early childhood. The first and overarching principle proposes that “intervening early in childhood can alter the life course trajectory in a positive direction.”
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Course Reading: Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood: A Research-Based Guide
Publisher: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
Find the reading at: https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/early_childhood_prevention_march_2016.pdf
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to substance abuse prevention efforts for children.
Learning Objectives: Describe the term ‘synaptic plasticity’. Describe the relationship between vulnerability and critical life transitions. Identify important protective factors that can offset risk factors.
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 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.