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COD Treatment Intensive Training

Co-occurring Disorder (COD) Treatment Intensive Training is for anyone working in the Maryland Public Behavioral Health System. These sessions are clinically focused, and participation is expected. 

CEUs: Each session includes 2 CEUs*

Access the EBPC Learning Management System (LMS) to register.

YOU MUST CREATE AN ACCOUNT AND LOG IN TO REGISTER FOR AVAILABLE TRAINING SESSIONS. 
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Topics and Descriptions

Session 1: The Stress Vulnerability Model and the Clinical Relationship

What do we do that gets in the way of our work with individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders? This training focuses on our mindset as helping professionals and what gets in the way of client engagement. We will review the latest research on the stress vulnerability model and discuss strategies to increase client and provider well-being. This training will also introduce skills from the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models.

Session 2: Stage-Wise Interventions for COD

This training focuses on the Stages of Change, Stages of Treatment, and possible interventions for individuals with mental health and substance use disorders.

Session 3: Harm Reduction Interventions for COD

To Harm reduction is both a mindset and a skill set, this training will focus on both areas. Often, value judgements get in the way of our efforts in helping people recover in the way that they define recovery. We will use the stage-wise model to discuss harm reduction interventions and skills.

Session 4: Motivational Interviewing for COD

This training focuses on the practice of Motivational Interviewing. We will review the spirit of motivational interviewing, OARS, eliciting and strengthening change talk, and how to help individuals start preparing for the change process.

Session 5: Cognitive Behavior Therapy for COD

This training will focus on the basics of CBT. We will review guided discovery, cognitive distortions, thought tracking and testing, behavioral activation, and using exposure in our work.

Session 6: DBT Skills for COD – Core Mindfulness

This training will focus on Marsha Linehan’s Core Mindfulness Skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Session 7: DBT Skills for COD – Emotion Regulation

This training will focus on Marsha Linehan’s Emotion Regulation Skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Session 8: DBT Skills for COD – Distress Tolerance

This training will focus on Marsha Linehan’s Emotion Regulation Skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Session 9: DBT Skills for COD – Interpersonal Effectiveness

This training will focus on Marsha Linehan’s Distress Tolerance Skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Session 10: Screening Tools and ASAM for COD

This training focuses on screening tools for COD and the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) screening guidelines.

 

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Co-occurring Intensive Training CEU Information

The Evidence-Based Practice Center (EBPC) of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry is authorized as a sponsor of Continuing Education Units. The EBPC maintains responsibility for this program. Please pay attention to the following distinctions regarding CEUs allotted per session.

*The Evidence-Based Practice Center of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry certifies that this individual meets the criteria 2 Continuing Education Credits (Category I) for Social Workers/2 Continuing Education (CE) for Psychologists/ and 2 Continuing Education Units (Category A) for Professional Counselors and Therapists and Alcohol and Drug Counselors.

Also, you must log in through the webinar platform to be eligible for a certificate. Participants who call-in-only are not eligible for CEUs or COAs.

BHA sponsors this training free of charge to eligible Maryland-based provider staff through the University of Maryland School of Medicine Training and Evidence-Based Practice Centers. We are committed to making these trainings accessible to all eligible providers. If you represent an eligible provider agency and would like to discuss accommodations for your staff including requesting training at or closer to your facility, please email us at EBPC@som.umaryland.edu and provide your agency name, address, and the email address for a contact person.