Mutual Help Groups for Addictive Problems
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Dr. A. Tom HorvathSpeaker Bio
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Part one summarizes current evidence about the effectiveness of mutual help groups for addictive problems and the mechanisms of action in these groups. Part two considers the clinical implications of this evidence. The course overviews the mutual help groups currently available, their surface differences, and interventions for clients who report having no interest in attending any group.
- Counselors
- Addiction Counselors
- Social Workers
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychologists
To increase knowledge on the effectiveness of mutual help groups for addictive problems and the mechanisms of action in these groups.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify two mutual help groups not based on the 12-step approach.
- Explain how recent research suggests that mutual help groups may be equally effective, so that clients
can be encouraged to seek out options most agreeable to them. - Specify at least one strategy for integrating client attendance in mutual help groups as an adjunctive
component addiction-focused psychotherapy.
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.
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.
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.
