Medication for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores alcohol use disorder and the medications approved for treating alcohol use disorder including Disulfiram, Naltrexone, and Acamprosate. Medication assisted treatment can be an effective element of treatment for moderate or severe alcohol use disorder and this course explores screening and assessment, developing a treatment plan, medication-assisted treatment, safety, efficacy, and progress.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/MedicationForTreatment-ofAlcoholUseDisorder.pdf
Publisher: US Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to medication for the treatment of alcohol use disorder.
Learning Objectives: Compare the FDA approved medications for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Describe treatment considerations for adolescents, young adults, pregnant women, and older adults. Identify areas for monitoring and indicators of progress.
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: 9/6/2021 - 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.