Addiction and Co-Existing Conditions: Intensive

Description:

What is the most common coexisting condition among those with psychoactive substance use disorders?  How does one distinguish between blackouts and dissociation?  When is it confabulation or memory failure due to intoxication?  What are the specifics in evaluating and treating depression or anxiety with substance involved patients?  Using current literature this program overviews incidence and prevalence information, and contraindications for treatment where psychoactive substance use disorders are co-present with mental and nervous disorders.  Specifically, the study will include the DSM criteria for determining diagnosis, various statistics on addictions clients that may present with coexisting disorders, and information concerning the concomitance, co-occurrence, and comorbidity of these disorders in the addictions population.  Later sections discuss mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, psychotic disorders and other problems that present among those with addictions and other populations.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to list two criteria defining coexisting conditions.

2. Participants will be able to identify DSM criteria for mood disorders; anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and selected other conditions with high comorbid prevalence with psychoactive substance abuse disorders.

3. Participants will be able to describe the incidence and prevalence of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, selected other conditions across the psychoactive substance abuse disorders.

4. Participants will be able to distinguish antecedent, and precipitous relationships between mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders; personality disorders, selected other conditions and the psychoactive substance abuse disorders.

5. Participants will be able to identify at least three key elements in the differential diagnosis with those who have mood disorders; anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, or selected other conditions in combination with a psychoactive substance abuse disorder.

6. Participants will be able to discuss specific concerns in the acute and sub-acute treatment phases for patients with mood disorders; anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, or selected other conditions in combination with a psychoactive substance abuse disorder.

Total CE Credits: 9

Training Agenda:

Hour One  Introduction and Definitions Coexisting Disorders

Hour Two and half  Mood Disorders

Hour Three and half  Anxiety Disorders

Hour Five and half  Personality Disorders

Hour Six and half  Psychotic Disorders

Hour Eight and Nine  Other Disorders

Methods: Study Guide, posttest and evaluation,  Q+A by email

Content Areas: Clinical Evaluation and assessment, Understanding Addiction, Social and Clinical Foundations, Co-existing COnditions, Addictions, Dual Disorder, Special Populations, Behavior DIsorder

CE Broker#: OL 20-11232  10-27666  HS 20-10021 10-27585

Purpose:   

This offering is intended for counseling practitioners who want to learn more about coexisting conditions.  Individuals completing this offering will be better equipped to observe for diagnostic criteria indicating coexisting illness, and better able to work with multi-disciplinary treatment efforts.  The information provided in this offering should also acquaint counselors with the reasons for unsuccessful completion of treatment to further equip the practitioner to intervene and improve outcomes and client retention.