TEACH Specialty Courses

1. Helping Pregnant Smokers Stop Smoking: An Interactive Case-Based Course

• Offered February 8-9, 2007
• Offered February 14-15, 2008

Course Description:

This specialized course will allow participants to increase their knowledge about tobacco use, screening, assessment and interventions with pregnant and postnatal women. A detailed set of clinical tools and materials (on CD-ROM) accompany the information package you will be able to take away.

Learning Objectives:

• Implement counseling and relapse prevention strategies tailored to pregnant and postnatal women
• Provide Nicotine Replacement Therapy advice to this population
• Increase sense of importance of intervening with this population
• Apply screening and assessment tools adapted for pregnant and postnatal women who use tobacco

2. Tobacco Interventions for Patients with Mental Health and/or Addictive Disorders

• Offered: February 2007, June 2007 and October, 2007
• Future course to be offered in 2008

Course Description:

This specialized course will allow participants to increase their knowledge about the detection and treatment of people with concurrent nicotine dependence and mental health and/or addictive disorders. A detailed set of clinical tools and materials (on CD-ROM) accompany the information package you will be able to take away.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply specialized clinical assessment and intervention tools
• Identify the determinants of smoking cessation in these patients
• Formulate interdisciplinary plans of client care
• List and describe pharmacotherapy and drug interactions with psychiatric medications in this population

3. Rainbow Tobacco Intervention

• Offered June 28 & 29, 2007
• Future course to be offered at a later date.

Course Description:

This specialized course will allow participants to increase their cultural competency and treatment abilities of people with nicotine dependence who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer. A detailed set of clinical tools and materials (on CD-ROM) accompany the information package you will be able to take away.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify specific barriers to health and social service care for LGBTTQ individuals
• Identify strategies to increase the ability to deliver culturally competent smoking cessation services to LGBTTQ people
• Incorporate basic knowledge of LGBTTQ issues, concepts and concerns into current professional work
• Understand the social context and smoking related issues in the LGBTTQ communities.

4. Eating Disorders and Tobacco Usage

• Offered: October 25 and 26, 2007
• To be offered June 12-13, 2008

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the relationship between tobacco use and Eating Disorders
• Recognize the mechanism by which Eating Disorders and nicotine are related
• Develop awareness of the severe health risks associated with having an Eating Disorder and using tobacco
• Apply evidence-based screening tools for Eating Disorders, formulate care plans and intervene effectively with these clients.

5. Implementing a Systematic Approach to Tobacco Dependence Treatment for Optimized Smokers: The Ottawa Model

• Offered in June, 2007 as a Community of Practice (one day) course
• Offered February 14-15, 2008 (Specialty Course)

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the main components of the Ottawa Model for tobacco dependence treatment
• Demonstrate the five elements of an effective intervention for a) patients experiencing nicotine withdrawal during hospitalization; and b) patients intending to quit smoking during and after hospitalization
• Describe 10 institutional best practices that are essential for creating a sustainable system of care
• Identify strategies to secure buy-in from key hospital leaders (medical, nursing, administrative).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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