Introduction to Recovery from Problematic Substance Use (3 credit hours)

Program Summary:  This course is the first of a 3-part series on recovery from problematic substance use.  The course provides an introduction to recovery-oriented counseling and describes a shift in SUD treatment away from a model of specialized treatment that focuses primarily on abstinence and toward a different model of integrated care that is strengths-based, client-driven, and offers a broad range of services.  Recovery is increasingly viewed as a process of change rather than an end point.  Current recovery research is highlighted and includes a discussion of neurological, genetic, and epigenetic bases for problematic substance use.

This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.  

We do not recommend this course if you completed our previous course, Counseling Approaches to Promote Recovery from Problematic Substance Use and Related Issues (15 credit hours), as it covers the same course material.

“Book  Open the Course Reading Here.

Reading:  Counseling Approaches to Promote Recovery From Problematic Substance Use and Related Issues:  Chapter 1 Publisher:  SAMHSA

Course Objectives:  To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring recovery from problematic substance use.

Learning Objectives:  Describe recovery-oriented counseling.  Describe the evolving view of problematic substance use and the related shift in SUD treatment.   Describe current recovery research, including neurological, genetic, and epigenetic bases for problematic substance use.

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Course Available Until: November 30, 2028.

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1: Recovery-oriented counseling includes all of the following except:
 
 
 
 
2: Which is one of SAMHSA's four dimensions that support a life in recovery?
 
 
 
 
3: SAMHSA's most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that in 2021, 46.3 million people had an SUD in the past year, and ____________ was the most common SUD.
 
 
 
 
4: In recent decades, researchers have homed in on _____________ to explain the chronic and recurring nature of problematic substance use
 
 
 
5: Some addiction researchers now apply a _________ approach to facilitate understanding of problematic substance use and recovery from it.
 
 
 
 
6: Research has made it increasingly clear that some people's brains are naturally more vulnerable to problematic substance use.
 
 
7: For AUD, estimates of heritability go as high as
 
 
 
 
8: All of the following describe epigenetic changes except:
 
 
 
 
9: The lowest overdose rates are among people who
 
 
 
 
10: For many decades, the dominant approach to addressing problematic substance use involved
 
 
 
 
11: What is a dialing and texting code that connects people anywhere in the US to the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline?
 
 
 
 
12: Qualitative research suggests that _____________ SUD screening of adults can help alleviate patient fears about being singled out for attention.
 
 
 
13: One study found that providers with higher levels of bias toward people who have OUD are less likely to
 
 
 
 
14: Telehealth may work better for
 
 
 
 
15: Recent research indicates that more than ___________ of people seeking treatment for AUD prefer nonabstinence goals.
 
 
 
 
16: Roughly ________ of people seeking treatment for other SUDs prefer nonabstinence goals.
 
 
 
 
17: A recovery-oriented counselor should support
 
 
 
 
18: In the recovery field, recovery is now typically thought of as
 
 
19: A recovery orientation views recurrence as
 
 
20: Which of the following is not an essential element of ROSC?
 
 
 
 

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G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course.  She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience.  She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City.  She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.

Course Available Until: November 30, 2028.
Filed under: Addiction, Clinical