Course Description

*This selection is for the Final Exam only. Access to the book, Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders (Fourth Edition), is required to complete the exam. To order the e-Book from Guilford Press (which enables you to take the course immediately), click here. To order the paperback book from PRP, click here

This program presents a comprehensive discussion of the assessment and treatment of all the major addictive disorders, including alcohol, nicotine, opioids, cannabis, hallucinogens and inhalants, caffeine, stimulants, cocaine, and sedatives/hypnotics and benzodiazepines.  Polysubstance use, abuse, and dependence, and co-occuring substance use disorders are examined as well as gambling and other behavioral addictions. Special populations in which substance use and abuse occur such as older adults, HIV/AIDS patients, women, and adolescent, are addressed. Psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatment methods for the addictive disorders are presented.

25 CE credits/hours, 250 questions


Target Audience

Psychologists | School Psychologists | Marriage & Family Therapists | Mental Health Counselors | Social Workers

Learning Level

Intermediate

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the foundations of addiction historically and neurobiologically.
  • Apply diagnostic criteria to the assessment of substance users and abusers.
  • Compare different laboratory testing procedures.
  • Analyze the difference between substances of abuse.
  • Identify polysubstance use, abuse, and dependency.
  • Identify behavioral addictions.
  • Examine addiction in the workplace.
  • Assess chronic pain patients who misuse opioids.
  • Apply special considerations to older adult substance abuse.
  • Apply special considerations to women substance abusers.
  • Apply special considerations to adolescent substance users and abusers.
  • Utilize matching and differential therapies for the most appropriate treatment.
  • Design treatments using individual psychodynamic psychotherapy.
  • Design treatments using cognitive therapy.
  • Utilize group therapy methods.
  • Apply motivational interviewing techniques to substance abuse clients.
  • Blend psychopharmacological treatments with psychotherapy.

Sections

  1. 1
    • Statement of Understanding (downloadable/printable)

  2. 2
    • Final Exam Questions (downloadable/printable)

    • Final Exam

  3. 3
    • Evaluation Questionnaire

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