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Gender Differences in Addiction

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1 CE Hour On Demand
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Description
This workshop will highlight the unique physiological, psychological, and sociological characteristics demonstrated by women with substance use disorders. Transgender populations have a higher rate of substance use disorders and require further research and integrative care. Diagnosis and treatment should focus on inherent gender differences. This presentation will review the risks for women and transgender individuals with substance use. We will also review the needs they have in treatment and recovery.
Target Audience
  • Social Worker
  • Psychologist
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Counselor
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase knowledge of addiction and gender.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Identify four or more sex and/or gender differences that affect women's experience with substance use, SUD services, and recovery.

  • Identify three or more common reasons that women initiate substance use.

  • Identify three risk factors for initiation of substance use.

  • Identify three protective factors for women/girls.

  • Identify three consequences/risks of Substance Use and SUDs for women.

  • Identify three common barriers women encounter while seeking and accessing treatment for substance use.

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  • Becker, J. B. (2022). Sex differences in addiction. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience.

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  • Cornish, J. L., & Prasad, A. A. (2021). Sex differences in substance use disorders: a neurobiological perspective. Frontiers in global women's health, 2, 778514.

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  • Towers, E. B., Williams, I. L., Qillawala, E. I., Rissman, E. F., & Lynch, W. J. (2023). Sex/gender differences in the time-course for the development of substance use disorder: A focus on the telescoping effect. Pharmacological reviews, 75(2), 217-249. http://www.ustranssurvey.org/report/2015 Walton, C. C., Rice, S., Gao, C. X., Butterworth, M., Clements, M., & Purcell, R. (2021). Gender differences in mental health symptoms and risk factors in Australian elite athletes. BMJ open sport & exercise medicine, 7(1), e000984.

  • Zakiniaeiz, Y., & Potenza, M. N. (2018). Gender-related differences in addiction: A review of human studies. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 23, 171-175.

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Introductory
General
Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

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 General continuing education credits.

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.

Psychologist

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

Marriage & Family Therapist

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 California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

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.

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 is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

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: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Lakeview Health. 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.
Slides
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  • Workshop Begins
  • Workshop Ends
Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Lantie Elisabeth Jorandby, MD

Dr. Lantie Jorandby, Chief Medical Officer at Lakeview Health in Jacksonville, FL, has dedicated her professional life to treating patients for mental illness and addiction. She is a nationally-recognized expert in the field and is triple board certified in general psychiatry, addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine.

Dr. Jorandby graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Neuroscience. She attended medical school and completed her residency at the University of Florida. For seven years, Dr. Jorandby worked as a staff psychiatrist in the Veterans Administration and served as Mental Health Supervisor at the Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic in Viera, Florida, the third largest Outpatient VA clinic in the country.

After completing her Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale University, Dr. Jorandby became Medical Director for the dual diagnosis unit at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. She also served as faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry. Prior to joining Lakeview Health, she worked in an integrative medicine and psychiatry practice in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Jorandby is a frequently sought speaker on the topic of mental health disorders, including eating disorders and co-occurring disorders with addiction, and a regular contributor to Psychology Today. She is passionate about encouraging patients to seek treatment and recovery for mental health, eating disorders and addiction.

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