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...Participants will be provided practical guidance and tools for how to engage research-based exploration steps with examples from the field. Read more about this session and the speaker here. Download...

ATTC Network Efforts and Activities in Integrating Substance Use Disorder and Health Care Services

Last webinar in the TOR Technical Assistance Webinar Series. To view information and resource from previous webinar, visit the TOR Webinars Resource Page        

...Dakota (1: Module 1, Slide 18). http://dpt2.samhsa.gov/treatment/directory.aspx As the graph above indicates, OTPs are fairly well distributed on the east and west coasts and within large U.S. urban centers. Unfortunately,...

...Care" at http://www.attcnetwork.org/regcenters/c1.asp?rcid=10&content=CUSTOM1). Peer-delivered services take a variety of forms and are offered by persons with varying titles, including: peer/recovery coaches, peer/recovery mentors, peer/recove

Provides an introduction to the antecedents and the rehabilitation of the disability of addiction in the areas of vocational, social, familial, personal and physical areas.

Provides an introduction to the antecedents and the rehabilitation of the disability of addiction in the areas of vocational, social, familial, personal and physical areas.

DESCRIPTION This presentation will give an overview of the background of the use of psychotherapy in the treatment of drug addiction and will refer to the utilization of psychotherapy treatment manuals and their fidelity. Therapeutic skills and the need for therapists to pay attention to the treatment needs of the addicted individual will be discussed. The presenter will emphasize the need for a comprehensive assessment of the client to include spirituality and will explain the role of the Black church. Additional discussion will focus on psychotherapy of drug addiction as only one component in the treatment armamentarium as well as the importance of engaging the patient and seeing psychotherapy as a form of a socialization process. OBJECTIVES Explain the background of psycho-dynamic features of drug addiction psychotherapy. Describe the therapeutic relationship between provider and patient. Discuss therapeutic skills with respect to the client's expectations of the provider. SPEAKER Sam Okpaku, MD, PhD, is the President, and founder of Center for Health, Culture, and Society in Nashville TN, USA. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland and holds a PH.D. in Social Research and Welfare from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, USA. He has been on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Yale University and was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical School and a Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Institute for Public Policy Studies. He has also served as Chairman and Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville. Dr. Okpaku is currently a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He is an awardee of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatrists for Pioneering Work in Cultural Psychiatry (2018) and also an awardee of the Society for Culture and Psychiatry for Creative Scholarship (2020). HOST Annelle Primm, M.D., MPH, is the Senior Medical Director of the Steve Fund, an organization focused on the mental health of young people of color. She is also a member of the Black Psychiatrists of America Council of Elders. View Flyer

...resulted in an influx of asynchronous learning resources, or products the health workforce access individually and experience at their own pace. Examples include online training programs, webinar recordings, podcast series,...

...behavioral healthcare landscape. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop a new generation of addiction treatment and recovery leaders. Intensive Technical Assistance for Aspiring Leaders To address this need,...

By: Kristina Spannbauer, Communications Specialist for the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, & PTTC One of the greatest aspects of NIATx process improvement is the adaptability of this model. Over the...

...reduction and how to overcome them, how to adapt MI for use in a harm reduction context, and what kinds of political aspects of harm reduction might come into play....

...training regularly report that having more representative video examples of supervisor skills would be useful. In response to this feedback the Northwest ATTC has created the Clinical Supervision Skills Video...

The Clinical Supervision Skills Video Demonstration series intends to provide examples of how to utilize specific methods taught in the Northwest ATTC clinical supervision training series. The impetus for creating...

...Part 1). Providers can also share examples of other chronic illnesses (i.e. diabetes, heart disease) that are treated with maintenance medications. The more providers can learn about how medications work,...