Note: To receive continuing education credit, you must attend the entire presentation and complete the online post-test attaining a minimum score of 75%. Attendees will be provided with information for taking an online test following completion at Netsmart University for each course they attend.

SESSIONS	CE CREDITS	DATE / TIME
Dual Diagnosis (Mental Illness/Substance Abuse) in Youth & Adults	5.5 CE Credits	Tuesday, May 19 12:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Risk Management with High-Risk Behaviors in Youth & Adults	7 CE Credits	Wednesday, May 20 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
A Comprehensive Review of Evidence-Based Practices	3.5 CE Credits	Thursday, May 21 8:30 a.m. –Noon

 

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Dual Diagnosis (Mental Illness/Substance Abuse) in Youth & Adults
(5.5 CE Credits) Tuesday, May 19, 1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. 

Treating youth or adults with co-occurring substance use problems and psychiatric disorders often presents many challenges to clinicians. Engaging clients who may not be ready to address their use of substances or reliably participate in psychiatric treatment is often challenging, as is assessing the interplay between substance use and psychiatric issues. This workshop addresses factors that contribute to successful treatment over time and places them within the context of a developmental process of treatment engagement and participation. The tension between harm reduction and abstinence models are discussed, as are the ways in which substance use relapse or intermittent exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms can be addressed. Principles and practices based in research and clinical experience with persons identified with co-occurring disorders are reviewed that support the clinician in providing care for this complex clinical population.

Objectives

• Identify strategies to assess the presence and interplay of co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorder.
• Apply treatment and motivational strategies that encourage client participation and meet multidimensional needs over time
• Identify factors increasing risk of relapse and predicting  high-risk situations

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Risk Management with High-Risk Behaviors in Youth & Adults
(7 CE Credits) Wednesday, May 20, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
        
High risk behaviors among youth and adults, including sub-lethal self injury, suicide, physically assaultive behavior and sexually aggressive behavior, present significant challenges for families, educators, mental health professionals, direct care staff and others. Individuals often have multiple issues requiring sophisticated assessment and multi-modal interventions. Effective intervention typically requires identifying key developmental, clinical, and social factors specifically and empirically linked to elevated risk of significant self-harm and violence. A method of risk assessment is outlined that produces a pragmatic risk management plan that can sharpen the effectiveness of interventions to reduce risk of harm to self or others. Empirically-supported or “best practices” approaches to assessment, risk management and intervention are identified and discussed.

 Objectives

• Identify key factors in assessment of sub-lethal and potentially lethal self-harm.
• Distinguish between static (historical) and dynamic risk factors for violence to others
• Identify two assessment tools and two “best practice” interventions for harm to self or others

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A Comprehensive Review of Evidence-Based Practices
(3.5 CE Credits) Thursday, May 21, 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.        

Advances have been made in recent years to put psychological and behavioral interventions on a scientific foundation. This workshop reviews methods and challenges in applying research approaches to psychotherapeutic interventions, describes different levels of scientific "soundness," and reviews existing evidence-based practices in working with children, adolescents and adults. Attendees will learn how to distinguish between “best practices” and “evidence-based” practices. Also discuss is identification of diagnoses for which evidence-based interventions currently exist, and organizational obstacles to implementing evidence-based practices to identify strategies to support effective organizational change.

Objectives

• Distinguish between "best practices" and "evidence-based" practices
• Identify two diagnoses for which evidence-based interventions currently exist.
• Identify two strategies to address organizational obstacles to implementing evidence-based practices

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