Access Granted - Building a Therapeutic Relationship with Adolescents
Adolescents with substance use disorders are a special population with special needs. Building a therapeutic alliance with them can be difficult and challenging. ...
Access Granted - Building a Therapeutic Relationship with Adolescents
Adolescents with substance use disorders are a special population with special needs. Building a therapeutic alliance with them can be difficult and challenging. ...
Addressing Racial Bias in AI for Equitable Substance Use Recovery
The highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in the United States in a year's time was reported between March 2021 and March 2022. Access to substance use...
Adolescent Development and Susceptibility of Teens toward Addiction
This presentation will explore the correlation between normal adolescent development patterns and susceptibility to addiction. There is a strong relationship between...
Adolescents with Co-Occurring Disorders: Already in our Care
Adolescence is a unique and active period of development. Differential diagnostic understanding and treatment is complicated, specialized, and vital. Often, protective...
Advancing Awareness in LGBTQ Care, Part I: History of Specialized Treatment for LGBTQ+ Clients
The need for specialized treatment for LGBTQ+ individuals was first addressed in 1979 at the Rutgers Summer School on Alcoholism, which led to the founding of NALGAP:...
Advancing Awareness in LGBTQ Care, Part III: Working with LGBTQ2S+ Native American Clients
Despite being at increased risk for developing substance use disorders and other mental health issues, LGBTQ2S+ Native American clients are little studied in the...
Advancing Awareness in LGBTQ Care, Part II: LGBTQ Youth, Community & Alcohol Misuse
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth are consistently marginalized and as a result are at greater risk of alcohol misuse. This workshop...
Advancing Awareness in LGBTQ Care, Part IV: Shaping Affirming Responses for Historically “Invisibilized” LGBTQIA+ Populations
Within our westernized society, issues affecting LGBTQIA+ community are garnering public recognition and attention. Despite the current relevance of the LGBTIA+...
Advocacy and Policy Reform for the Black Community
The depth to which drug law policies have destroyed communities has been greatly under reported. Trainings should facilitate conversations that challenge us and...
A Fire Within: Working With the Rage of Trauma and Oppression
Oppressed racial and cultural groups are at greater risk of addiction, mental health problems, suicide, and self-destructive behavior. In addition, the same groups are...
A Gestalt View of the Latino Experience with Substance Use Disorders
This webinar offers the opportunity to enhance clinical, theoretical, and culturally sensitive skills to work with Latinos using a Gestalt approach. Participants will...
Antiracist Addiction Treatment Requires Decriminalization and Harm Reduction
This presentation will detail proposed legislation for drug decriminalization that recognizes the humanity and agency of all people, expands access to non-compulsory...
A Rainbow Pipeline: The Earnest Impact of Addiction on Black LGBTQ+ Identifying Individuals
LGBTQ+ identifying individuals are more likely to develop a substance use disorder (SUD), and transgender individuals are more likely to seek treatment than the...
Baby Boomers & Substance Use: How Holistic Care Can Help
Since 2001, the misuse of prescription drugs by older adults has increased by over 100 percent. The primary reason for the increase of substance use among baby boomers...
Braiding Western Treatment Modalities and Indigenous Approaches for SUDs: Sweetgrass Method
Limited studies examine how traditional American Indian/Alaskan Native and Western healing practices are being combined in treatment for Indigenous clients. This...