Chronic Pain in Clients with Substance Abuse & the Role of Opioids: Web of Emotions and Physical Symptoms
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Mel Pohl, MD, DFASAMSpeaker Bio
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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.
- Counselors
- Addiction Counselors
- Social Workers
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Certified Intervention Professional (CIP)
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.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Define and compare chronic pain and acute pain
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Define Central Sensitization, Neuroplastic Pain and Learned Neutral Pathways
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Describe 3 factors that have contributed to the opioid epidemic in the United States
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Discuss 2 side effects of opioid use
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Identify and describe 4 non-pharmacologic treatments for chronic pain
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
