Advanced Substance Use Disorders (Virtual Training)
This comprehensive training will help child welfare social workers recognize the signs, indicators, and functional impairments commonly utilized in the diagnosis of substance use disorders (SUD) to identify and connect vulnerable children and families to qualified professionals for further assessment and treatment as needed.
After attending this training, participants be able to:
- Apply key aspects of trauma-informed approaches and recognize the impacts of SUD in the family system.
- Understand stigma’s relationship with SUD and the impact of personal bias in the recognition and treatment of SUD.
- Understand adolescent risk and the developmental stages of SUD.
- Recognize prevalently abused substances and the common indicators of substance misuse.
- Understand the biological components involved in the development of SUD, and why addiction is classified as a medical disease.
- Value ongoing SUD education and interdisciplinary collaboration to better serve individual community members and families.
Association Credits
Section Notes
Professional Credit
UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Course meets the qualifications for 5.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Provider number 050148. Certificates of completion will be sent to participants within 4 weeks after the course (after attendance and number of credits to be received are verified).