HHSC FACILITY LICENSURE BUNDLE

THIS COURSE DOES NOT MEET THE TEXAS HHSC LIVE TRAINING MANDATES. The relationship between patient and provider is sacred. Persons seeking help are often very vulnerable and are a great risk for abuse, neglect & exploitation. Our ethical and moral responsibility as helping professionals is to ensure no harm comes to those in our care. In this course we are examining safety practices as they apply to the treatment of individuals with addictions and other mental health factors this course is designed to support both the helping professional and the patient who is receiving treatment. Every interaction between patient and helping professional is to follow the code of conduct and maintain professionalism.

Agitation is an acute behavioral emergency requiring immediate intervention. Verbal de-escalation is usually the key to engaging the patient and helping them become an active partner in their evaluation and treatment. This course details the proper foundations for appropriate training for de-escalation and provides intervention guidelines, using the “10 domains of de-escalation.”

This course is required annually by all Texas Health and Human Services Commission licensed treatment facility staff that has direct contact with clients (Counselors and Direct Care Staff) or who supervised direct care personnel. In additional all licensed chemical dependency counselors are required to complete an annual update related to infectious disease-HIV, TB, HEP, STI.

This course is intended for all persons who conduct screening, assessment, admissions and intakes in addiction treatment programs. This course reviews the process for SUD intake, SUD screening, SUD assessment, patient placement criteria (TDI/ASAM), and SUD admission process. All information is based on TAC 448, ASAM, TDI, CARF and JCA standards.

In this course, is intended to give you and overview of substance use disorders. You will learn about the general change from the DSM-IV to DSM-V. The general criteria as well as each substance will be reviewed. Anyone in a helping profession will benefit from this course. However, nothing in this training is intended to be medical or clinical advice. The course uses a blend of instructive information provided through narration and video.

THE COURSE DOES NOT MEET THE AGENCY INSERVICE MEDICATION PROCEDURE TRAINING MANDATES. THIS COURSE IS INTENDED TO SUPPLEMENT AGENCY SPECIFIC TRAINING BY A LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL (LVN, RN, MD, PA, APN). This course is intended to provide pharmacology information about medication most used for patients who are participating in an addiction treatment program. In addition, the course reviews the safety protocols, regulation related to medication dispensing, best practice for monitoring patient medication self-administration and mandated requirements behind training for employees who will have direct access to medication.

Regardless of setting or level of care, the goals of detoxification are to provide safe and humane withdrawal from substances and to foster the patient’s entry into long-term treatment and recovery. This course provides the core concepts of the detoxification field, discusses the primary goals of detoxification services, and highlights issues involved with providing detoxification within systems of care. In addition, the criteria for placing patients in appropriate treatment settings, the psychological and biomedical issues that may affect detoxification and ensuing treatment, and treatment regimens for specific substances are discussed.

This course provides gender-specific factors that significantly influence treatment retention of women, and includes women’s treatment issues and needs, parenting issues and treatment needs, and co-occurring disorders that are most prevalent among women and are likely to require attention during the course of treatment. Significant consideration is give to trauma, trauma-informed services, and integrated treatment for women with trauma-related symptoms and substance use disorders. This course focuses on the impact on the woman, her children and the family. Topics include ACE's, Child Welfare (CPS), family violence, and other topics specific to women.

Although adolescents are developmentally distinct from adults, they often receive addiction treatment based on adult models. This is problematic because adolescents face significantly different conditions in addiction treatment, including distinct basic biological and neurodevelopmental stages, unique sociodevelopmental concerns, distinctive addiction trajectories, and, in turn, disparate treatment goals and outcomes. In sum, it can be difficult for even savvy clinicians to know how to approach addiction treatment with this important age group. This course intends to help clinician understand the special needs of teens in eliminating harmful substance use.