BRIEF INTERVENTION AND THERAPIES FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Course overview

This course links research to practice by providing counselors, therapists, and others who may be called on to intervene with a person who has substance abuse problems with up-to-date information on brief interventions and therapies. These interventions and therapies are less costly yet have proven effective in substance abuse treatment. Clinicians, clinical researchers, and policymakers have increasingly focused on them as tools to fill the gap between primary prevention efforts and more intensive treatment for persons with serious substance abuse disorders. Brief interventions can be used as a method of providing more immediate attention to clients on waiting lists for specialized programs, as an initial treatment for nondependent at-risk and hazardous substance users, and as adjuncts to more extensive treatment for substance-dependent persons. Brief therapies can be used to effect significant changes in clients' behaviors and their understanding of them. Topics include: Introduction to Brief Interventions and Therapies; Brief Interventions in Substance Abuse Treatment; Brief Therapy in Substance Abuse Treatment; Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Brief Strategic/Interactional Therapies; Brief Humanistic and Existential Therapies; Brief Psychodynamic Therapy; Brief Family Therapy; Time Limited Group Therapy; Course includes: 263 pages plus references