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Harvesting Healthy Habits: Tackling Substance Use in School-Age Students

Virtual
1 CE Hour
Clinical

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Description

This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of the most commonly used substances by students and offer practical guidance on navigating difficult conversations about substance use with students. Participants will learn effective ways to build presence and engage with students while fostering a supportive environment that encourages resilience and positive outcomes.

Target Audience
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Social Worker
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is for participants to learn effective ways to build presence and work collaboratively with students struggling with substance use.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Summarize the current landscape of substance use among school-age students.

  • Identify two signs associated with substance use.

  • Identify two risk factors associated with substance use.

  • Identify at least two effective and collaborative intervention strategies to address substance use.

References

  • Lisdahl, K. M., Wright, N. E., Kirchner-Medina, C., Maple, K. E., & Shollenbarger, S. (2014). Considering cannabis: The effects of regular cannabis use on neurocognition in adolescents and young adults. Current Addiction Reports, 1(2), 144-156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-014-0019-6

  • Onrust, S. A., Otten, R., Lammers, J., & Smit, F. (2016). School-based programmes to reduce and prevent substance use in different age groups: What works for whom? Clinical Psychology Review, 44, 45–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2015.11.002

  • Trucco, E. M., Colder, C. R., & Wieczorek, W. F. (2023). A meta-analysis study on peer influence and adolescent substance use. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04944-z

  • Steele, D. W., Becker, S. J., Danko, K. J., & Bergman, J. H. (2020). Brief behavioral interventions for substance use in adolescents: A meta-analysis. Pediatrics, 146(4), e20200351. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-0351

  • Lisdahl, K. M., Wright, N. E., Kirchner-Medina, C., Maple, K. E., & Shollenbarger, S. (2014).

  • Considering cannabis: The effects of regular cannabis use on neurocognition in adolescents and young adults. Current Addiction Reports, 1(2), 144-156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-014-0019-6

Clinical
Counselor

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is a CAMFT-approved continuing education provider, provider #1000101.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Social Worker

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Clinical continuing education credits. ASWB ACE Credit is not available in NY and NJ.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Counseling Services

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by American Mental Health Counseling Association (AMHCA). There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Suzy Vaile, MA, LCMHC

Suzy is a lifelong learner who enjoys all things Brené Brown and the power of connection. She’s a clinician, wife, mom, Army brat, and Texan. She earned her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health from Wake Forest University and is currently pursuing her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision at Liberty University. She is a dually licensed LCMHC and LCASA, as well as an EMDR Clinician.

She is passionate about her work at the Trauma Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, where she is the Lead Counselor for Pediatric Trauma at Brenner Children’s Hospital in North Carolina as well as the Trauma Survivors Network Coordinator for pediatric and adult trauma survivors.

When she is not working, she is organizing or re-decorating at home or at work; she believes that your space reflects your personality, and she strives to always create an inviting and relaxing environment for those around her.

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