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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.

The intersectionality of substance use disorders and infectious disease, while a common comorbidity, this intersectionality is rarely talked about in the addiction treatment settings as part the treatment process. This course is intended to help the addiction professional address infectious disease as part of the clinical counseling process.

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.

Why do teenagers act like that? Adults have been asking this question for generations. Impulsivity, rapid mood swings, dangerous experimentation, angry outbursts, and poor decision making are just some of the behaviors that emerge as children enter adolescence. The actual physiological makeup of the teenage brain is responsible for more of adolescents’ behavior than we may have realized. In this course, you will learn about the science of the teenage brain; how it affects teenagers’ emotions, thought processes, and behavior; and how to work with these challenges rather than fight against them. You’ll also develop concrete strategies for identifying at-risk behaviors, managing the mental and behavioral challenges unique to teenagers, and harnessing their strengths to keep them motivated and engaged in learning/behavior change.

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.

Counselors, clients, facilities and the public at large benefit from counselor clinical supervision. Supervision is a guarantee the best possible way forward to professional and personal development. It protects the client and community from harm and the facility from liability. This course is intended to give supervisors the necessary information to competently supervise counselor interns and other subordinates.

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.

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.

The purpose of this course is to inform the nonclinical paraprofessionals about their legal obligations to protect the confidentiality and privacy of their consumers. This guidance is for behavioral healthcare programs that are subject to and already complying with the confidentiality requirements of 42 CFR Part 2 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The information in the following slides is intended as guidance and is not a legal opinion. This course is intended for all paraprofessional employees in the organization.

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.”

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.

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.

This is an elective course for all employees and managers. This course focuses on communication, managing challenging workplace situations and dealing with negative employees or coworkers.

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.

3 CE (Ethics). You will become familiar with a Code of Ethics for Peer Recovery Support Specialists 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 recovery support programs.

This course is for social workers and professional counselors. 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. 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.

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.

You will become familiar with a Code of Ethics for Peer Recovery Support Specialists 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 recovery support programs.

2 CEs. This course is intended to inform individuals of resources available for funding addiction services in Texas and other states. Individuals will gain an understanding of eligibility and benefits of public and private payor sources.

This course explorers facilitation skills for group interventions such as process groups and psychoeducational groups. This is intended as a basic overview of group facilitation skills for counselors.

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.

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.

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.

BHC Training has prepared these training materials based on the minimum human resources standards for businesses in Texas. This training is meant to provide a basic overview of the minim legal standards and best practice for managers and administrators for business in Texas. Many of these standards are federal regulations and apply to business in other states as well. Please check your state and local business code for additional information.

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.

This course address setting limits and boundaries with co-workers and other professional colleagues.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

This course is designed to help you prevent early voluntary termination of substance abuse treatment- leaving against medical advice. This course is primarily a video base course provided by Todd Stumbo – Chief Executive Officer – Blue Ridge Mountain Recovery Center. This video is approximately 1 hour in length. We have selected what we believe to be the most accurate and information to help guide through the process of preventing people from leaving treatment early. Please talk with your supervisor about your facility specific procedures related to AMA and AMA blocking. Make sure you know the rules.

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 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.

Assessing risk for self harm and suicide in youth 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.

Trauma is devastating for everyone. Children experience and cope with trauma very differently than adults. This course is an overview of helping children who have been exposed too or experience trauma recover.

This training is designed as a part of the child development series to better understand human development and how people grown physically, behaviorally and cognitively. This intended to be an overview of human development. This course is for HHSC grant funded prevention and intervention staff.

This course is designed to further support information in the child development series. This information is to support the care and development of children dealing with risk factors that would hinder a healthy development. This course is also designed to continue support and information for parents that are directly involved.

The course is intended for all prevention educators working HHSC funded prevention/intervention programs.

Misuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is a problem throughout the United States. This CEU course provides information about discrete steps to help with conceptualizing and planning a prevention event by defining the essential traits of high-quality prevention strategies, laying out guiding principles and action steps, and offering tools communities can use to plan and build prevention programs that work across the entire lifespan.

This training is designed as a part of the child development series to better understand human development and the way adverse childhood experiences impacts individuals across the lifespan. This course focus on classic warning sign behaviors, including conversation examples between patient and clinical advisor. Including treatment plans and therapy approaches. Within this training you will see graphs, videos and some narration that provides addition support.

General overview of program evaluation. Program evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using data to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of programs and, as importantly, to contribute to continuous program improvement.

As tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, differential rates of smoking and use of other tobacco products is a significant contributor to health disparities among some of the most vulnerable people in our society. This course examines the demographics of those who use nicotine products, why nicotine is more addictive and quitting is harder for some people and less so for others, and the treatments available for tobacco dependence.

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.

This presentation identifies and provides implementation strategy for the core competencies of addiction treatment program operation, thereby empowering addiction treatment providers with clear direction for the proficient and ethical delivery of addiction treatment services.

This training is an overview of what recovery support services are and who provides them. This module part of the “Becoming a Recovery Support Professional” series required for Recovery Support Specialists.

Conflict resolution skills are essential for helping professional. This course provides and overview of roadblock to conflict resolution and strategies for resolving conflict.

This course briefly reviews general group facilitation guidelines pertaining to planning peer support group; developing a peer support group comfort agreement; using your personal recovery story in group discussion; and using verbal and nonverbal behaviors that promote conversation in the peer support group. Additionally, this course describes ways to address cross-talking, side-talking, and other challenging behaviors in a peer support group.

This course is intended for Recovery Support Specialist and Recovery Coaches. This course provided essential skills that include the coaching cycle, listening, communication, boundaries, tools and self care.

There is a robust correlation in the scientific literature between trauma and addiction. This course is intended to review how Seeking Safety helps people suffering from substance use disorders who also have experienced or been exposed to trauma.

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.

The intersectionality of substance use disorders and infectious disease, while a common comorbidity, this intersectionality is rarely talked about in the addiction treatment settings as part the treatment process. This course is intended to help the addiction professional address infectious disease as part of the clinical counseling process.

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.

This is a video-based course and includes presentations by leading trauma experts in behavioral healthcare. The following videos include an overview of trauma informed supervision, a detail trauma informed supervision webinar and examples of trauma informed clinical supervision. The total time for all three videos is 2.5 hours.

the child welfare and dependency court systems, including how the mandates of those systems may affect the need for treatment.