Opioid Treatment Program Courses

Overview of the medications, strategies, and services needed to effectively treat and support OUD and opioid use recovery, to provide healthcare professionals with the necessary insight to administer safe and effective healthcare to patients in need.

The purpose of this course is to convey a working understanding of harm reduction (HR) as it is applied to substance use disorder. Harm reduction is an approach that promotes health in a way that meets people where they are at, accepting that not everyone is ready or capable of stopping their substance use at a given time.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an umbrella term for a wide variety of techniques designed to change thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This course provides a brief overview of some of the specialized varieties of CBT, explains techniques that are common to all CBT, provides examples and case studies for specific problems, and offers suggestions for integrating CBT into your current practice. This course is an elective clinical course intended for counselors. While the focus is specific to addictions, the information can be used in a multitude of therapeutic settings. This course does not have a minimum time requirement. While you may be tempted to skip ahead, please review all the information. We have selected what we consider the most interesting yet factual, videos from YouTube and other sources. We encourage you to check out other videos and publications related to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Understanding the intersection between pain, chronic pain and addiction has become important part of treating addiction. This course is intended to provide the clinician, nurse, medical staff with a basic understanding of the relationship between pain and addiction. It is recommended that all counselors and nurses take this course. This is primarily a video-based training. If you do not watch the video’s you will not be able to pass the test. Please watch the video on the next slide to make sure you know how to log your time. We have selected what we consider the most interesting yet factual, videos from YouTube and other sources. Feel free to check out other videos and publications.

Motivation for change is a key component in addressing substance misuse. Motivational Interviewing is a tool that SUD treatment counselors can utilize to influence positive behavior change by developing a therapeutic relationship that respects and builds on the client’s autonomy. Different motivational interventions counselors can apply to all stages in the Stages of Change (SOC) model related to substance misuse and recovery from addiction are also described.

Opioid overdose continues to be a major public health problem in the United States. This CE course discusses opioid use disorders, steps for first responders, information for prescribers, and safety advice for patients and family members.

This course explores impact substance use has on pregnant women and their unborn children with a focus on NAS and FAS. This course is required for HHSC funded PPI program, as well as specialized female treatment and MAT programs that service women.

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.

This course covers various treatment approaches designed specifically to treat trauma-related symptoms, trauma-related disorders, and specific disorders of traumatic stress. To do this, trauma-specific treatment models, providing a brief overview of interventions that can be delivered immediately after a trauma, as well as trauma-specific interventions for use beyond the immediate crisis is addressed. In addition, focus is placed on integrated care that targets trauma-specific treatment for mental, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. Finally, this course provides a brief review of selected emerging interventions, with a focus on Seeking Safety.

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 will focus on providing the student with a basic overview of the theory and treatment components of dialectical behavioral therapy. It will give you the tools you need to identify clients who will benefit most from this intensive treatment and help you learn the basics of DBT conceptualization and treatment. You will learn about how DBT was developed and the evidence supporting DBT treatment. Additionally, there is a section that specifically looks at it’s use in addiction treatment.

Assessing risk for self harm and suicide has become an essential part of treating addiction. This course will help reduce current unwarranted clinical practice variations and provide facilities with a structured framework to help improve patient outcomes (prevent suicide and other forms of suicidal self-directed violent behavior); provide evidence-based recommendations to assist providers and their patients in the decision-making process; and identify outcome measures to support the development of practice-based evidence that can ultimately be used to improve clinical guidelines.

In the early 1970s, Congress recognized that the stigma associated with behavioral health issues (substance abuse and mental illness) and fear of prosecution deterred people from entering treatment and enacted legislation that gave patients a right to confidentiality. For the almost three decades since the Federal confidentiality regulations (42 CFR Part 2 or Part 2) were issued, confidentiality has been a cornerstone practice for behavioral healthcare programs across the country. These regulations have been updated and revised several times since 1975, to address changes in our society and technology. The most recent revision was in 2020.

Addiction, it has been said, is a condition that crosses all socioeconomic, gender, age, and cultural lines. The more we learn about addiction, the more it seems that anyone, from anywhere, regardless of their background, can fall prey to addiction. With a wider range of cultures exposed to addictive substances – and having them directly marketed to them – the concept of cultural competence becomes increasingly important. Health disparities are a BIG topic of discussion in our world, especially with the detrimental impact of COVID on specific communities of people. Addictions has experienced the consequences of health disparities long before COVID. This course is intended to get you think (and acting) about what we can do has healers in bringing about health PARITY. Inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility are important for the safety of our client/patients and facilitate the delivery of competent, compassionate, meaningful care.

You will become familiar with a Code of Ethics for addiction professionals and learn how values, coupled with ethics, will assist in ethical and effective decision making. In the span of your career, you will be presented with ethical dilemmas and encounter obstacles to ethical decision making. This course will review what you may already know and prepare you for decisions you have yet to make. Additionally, professional boundaries, when not observed, do not keep the best interest of the participants first and foremost. Ethics, values and professional boundaries come together to provide the best and most ethical care for the participants of our addiction treatment programs.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1996 as an attempt at incremental healthcare reform. HIPAA's intent was to reform the healthcare industry by reducing costs, simplifying administrative processes and burdens, and improving the privacy and security of patients' health information. Today HIPAA compliance mainly revolves around the last item: protecting the privacy and security of patients' health information.

3 CEs. This course meets mandatory human trafficking training for Texas and is approved by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. This course is designed to help you better understand the severity of human trafficking-when, how and why human trafficking occurs. This course focuses on who is trafficked, types of trafficking, and how healthcare professionals can identify, prevent and interrupt human trafficking. Some information in this course of graphic nature. This course is a combination of written text, audio and video. Please watch videos in full. We have selected what we believe to be the most accurate content to illustrate and illuminate the information provided. Several videos may have triggering information. As always, this topic is evolving daily, and we are learning new things regarding the care, prevention, and how to aide those both directly and indirectly involved in human trafficking.

This course meets the state of Texas cybersecurity training requirements for grants funded providers. Also meets accreditation cybersecurity training requirements for Joint Commission and CARF. This is a video training conducted by the Texas Department of Information Security. This training is applicable in all states.

Cultural Humility is a personal lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique whereby the individual not only learns about another's culture, but one starts with an examination of her/his own beliefs and cultural identities. This short documentary visits the idea of cultural humility.