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Intervention 101 – Chronic Pain in Clients with Substance Abuse & the Role of Opioids: Web of Emotions and Physical Symptoms

Course
Virtual
On Demand
1 CE Hour
Clinical, Substance Abuse

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    Sessions will be available On-Demand
Description

Chronic Pain occurs as a complicated web of emotions and physical symptoms. The most common way to treat pain is to use opioid medications. For some individuals who develop dependence/ addiction to these medications, management and treatment for their condition can become much more complicated. This session will review the interactions of pain, suffering and addiction as they interface in your clients and include suggestions for intervention and treatment.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Certified Intervention Professional (CIP)
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this session is for participants to increase their understanding of chronic pain and addiction and improve their ability to treat clients experiencing chronic pain.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Define and compare chronic pain and acute pain

  • Define Central Sensitization, Neuroplastic Pain and Learned Neutral Pathways

  • Describe 3 factors that have contributed to the opioid epidemic in the United States

  • Discuss 2 side effects of opioid use

  • Identify and describe 4 non-pharmacologic treatments for chronic pain

Introductory
Clinical
Substance Abuse
Counselors

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.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

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.

Addiction Counselors

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. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

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 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

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.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

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.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Certified Intervention Professional (CIP)

Interventions 101 Training Course is an approved education provider from the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB), and Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation (CACCF) offering 1 CEU.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by CanAm Interventions. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants.
Mel Pohl, MD, DFASAM

Mel Pohl, MD, DFASAM is the Senior Medical Consultant of the Pain Recovery Program at The Pointe Malibu. Dr. Mel was a major force in developing the Las Vegas Recovery Center’s Chronic Pain Recovery Program. He is a Family Practitioner, certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM), and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He is the author of A Day without Pain, revised edition (Central Recovery Press, 2011) and The Pain Antidote – Stop Suffering from Chronic Pain, Avoid Addiction to Painkillers, and Reclaim Your Life
(DaCapo, 2015). Dr. Mel filmed a show for PBS on chronic pain which aired around the country in 2016.

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