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Substance Use and Abuse in Older Adults

In-Person
1.5 CE Hour

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Description

This workshop will explore the psychosocial differences and the consequences of substance use and abuse for clients over the age of 50. This workshop will further explore the medical and pharmaceutical considerations for older adults. This information will be presented in a way that is practical and applicable to the everyday counselor.

Target Audience
  • • Counselors
  • • Addiction Counselors
  • • Social Workers
  • • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • • Psychologists
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to provide awareness of present-day counselors to the needs of older adults around substance use issues.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Explain the context, prevalence, and projections of substance use among older adults.

  • Identify two substance use screening tools that are used with older adults.

  • Identify and describe three substance use treatments that are used with older adults.

Introductory
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 1.5 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.

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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Edward Harper, LCSW, LAADAC II

Edward Harper has been in the field of counseling and community services since 1975 and licensed in the state of Tennessee since 1988. He became a certified addiction counselor in 1990. Edward received his BA from Mars Hill College in North Carolina in 1976. And his MSW from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1986. He found his passion for working with older adults when he started working with senior services in 1990. In 2000, Edward developed a national and international program for adult caregivers. He currently works with Blount Memorial Hospital providing senior services and connecting caregivers to appropriate services. Edward has been in this role for twenty-four years. Prior to that, Edward worked with their psychiatric program providing family therapy and counseling services for both psychiatric and substance abuse clients. Additionally, Edward plays in the Pistol Creek Catch of the Day Band as a singer and guitarist.

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