Description
Note: This course is only available to individuals who practice or reside in Maine.
This workshop provides a framework for psychopharmacologic practice with individuals with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders in accordance with nationally accepted practice guidelines. The workshop begins by reviewing a general framework for integrated treatment of individuals with co-occurring disorders based on research derived principles of successful treatment intervention within an integrated recovery approach that makes sense from the perspective of both mental health and addiction practitioners.
The workshop illustrates briefly how these principles guide both individualized assessment and individualized treatment matching for individuals with co-occurring disorders and describes a systematic process of clinical assessment – the Integrated Longitudinal Strength Based Assessment – that can be utilized in making psychopharmacologic assessments and interventions for these individuals, including those who may be actively using.
Then, based on the principles of successful treatment intervention, most of the workshop will describe systematic practice guidelines for psychopharmacologic intervention with individuals with co-occurring disorders, including both general strategies, as well as strategies for treating various diagnoses. The workshop will include attention to medication strategies and specific medications for various psychiatric conditions in individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders, including those who might be actively using. The workshop will also cover utilization of anti-craving agents and other SUD medication treatment strategies for individuals who might have co-occurring psychiatric conditions. Finally, the workshop will briefly cover approaches for dealing with challenges related to individuals who are on benzodiazepines or on opioids for chronic pain.
Note: This course builds on the groundwork of Dr Minkoff’s earlier free course, Welcoming, Integrated Services for People with Co-occurring Disorders. If you have not already taken that course, you might want to take that one first.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- To become familiar with the six principles of successful treatment for individuals with co-occurring disorders, and their application to psychopharmacology
- To understand how to perform integrated longitudinal strength-based assessments to establish diagnoses and treatment strategies for individuals with co-occurring disorders who might be actively or recently using substances.
- To be able to apply evidence-based strategies for psychopharmacologic practice for individuals with various combinations of psychiatric and substance disorders
- To be able to apply evidence-based strategies for psychopharmacologic practice for individuals with various combinations of psychiatric and substance disorders with co-occurring conditions who are on benzodiazepines or opioids, or who are requesting such medications
How it Works
This course includes a 2-part video presentation by Kenneth Minkoff, MD, followed by a quiz requiring a passing grade of 80% or higher. After completing the video lessons and quizzes, you will be directed to a course evaluation. Once you have completed the evaluation, you will be able to download a .pdf certificate to get your course credit.
Outline
- 2-part video presentation, totaling 55 minutes
- Brief exit quiz, passing quiz with score of at least 80% required
- Evaluation of the training
About the Presenter
Kenneth Minkoff, MD | Dr. Minkoff is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Senior at ZiaPartners, Inc., a behavioral health system consultation firm in Tucson, AZ. He is Board-Certified as an addiction psychiatrist and community psychiatrist, Board Member and Products and Services Committee Chair of the American Association for Community Psychiatry, playing a leading role in the development and dissemination of the LOCUS Family of Tools, as well as the Self-assessment for Modification of Anti-Racism Tool (SMART) for which he is co-author. He was one of the original members of the federal Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (2017-20). He is Co-Chair of the Community Psychiatry Committee of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, and one of the lead authors of the 2021 Report: Roadmap to the Ideal Crisis System, published by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. He is a member of the National Council’s Medical Director Institute and consults to the National Council Centers of Excellence on Integrated Care and CCBHCs.
Criteria for Successful Completion
100% Attendees required to participate and be present in the full duration of the learning activity and complete/submit an evaluation form. Partial credit will not be awarded.
Contact Hours
Certificates will be issued upon completion of an online course evaluation. No partial credit will be given.
- 1 Category I Contact hour for Maine Psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists in Maine
- 1 contact hour for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc
- Certificate of Completion for 1 contact hour for social workers, licensed professional clinical counselors, behavioral healthcare workers, and other professionals
- 1 contact hour for alcohol and drug counselors pending approval by the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors
- 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.
- If you are interested in taking this course for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit, you can click to enroll through the Maine SUD Learning Community. The ME SUD Learning Community offers this course for 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.
Important info:
You will have access to the course for 1 year after purchase.
This course is only available to individuals who practice or reside in Maine.
