Youth & Drugs and Mental Health Online Course

Course Sessions Begin: January 21, 2008

Approved for CACCF CEC Hours

This new eight-week online course is a training companion for the publication Youth & Drugs and Mental Health: A Resource for Professionals. The course will focus on key aspects of an integrated approach to treatment of concurrent mental health and substance use problems among youth. Various instructional activities (online reading materials, links to web resources, individual activities and group discussions) will be used.

At the end of this course, you will be able to

• describe adolescent development and other risk and protective factors associated with substance and mental health problems in youth
• identify substance use, mental health issues and concurrent disorders in youth
• apply appropriate treatment approaches effective for youth, including integrative treatment models, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy, medications and First Contact (a brief treatment module for young substance users with mental health problems)

Faculty

• Elsbeth Tupker, MSW

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