Co-Occurring Disorders Treating Co-Occurring Disorders
This training meets the Michigan Department of Community Health certification requirement for this topic area. Treating Co-Occurring Disorders: Principles of Successful Treatment provides basic information on working with persons with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder diagnoses. An emphasis is placed on creating a welcoming environment and completing strengths-based assessments using Stages of Change. This course will take approximately 2.5 hours to complete and would be appropriate for NBCC, QMHP.
Defining Co-Occurring Disorders
This course has been designed to provide a in-depth explanation of Co-Occurring Disorders including examples of common co-occurring disorders that you may come across, possible symptoms and warning signs to be aware of with your clients.
The Complexity of Co-Occurring Disorders and Your Clients
Because Co-Occurring Disorders are some of the more complex disorders that direct care workers come across, this course aims to provide a deeper look into what makes these disorders difficult to treat. Participants will also gain an understanding of how your clients' specific life or environmental situations can greatly affect their disorder and treatment.
Best Practices for Treatment
This course will provide evidence-based best practices for providing treatment to clients with co-occurring disorders. It is important to note that this course is not the only sources of educational information and we recommend further education regarding treating co-occurring disorders.
- Understanding the definition of Co-Occurring Disorders
- Defining and understanding Co-Occurring Families and the roles that they play to your clients.
- Understanding how complexity plays into your clients' lives.
- Best practices for helping those complex clients may be facing more severe behavioral problems.
Kenneth Minkoff
MD
Kenneth Minkoff, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist with a certificate of additional qualifications in addiction psychiatry. He is a dedicated community psychiatrist, currently a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in addition to his work with ZiaPartners. He is recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on recovery-oriented integrated services for individuals and families with co-occurring mental health, substance use, and health conditions, plus other complex needs (trauma, housing, legal, disability, parenting, etc.). He is also a leading national expert on the development of welcoming, recovery-oriented integrated systems of care for such individuals, through implementation of a national consensus best practice model for system design: the Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care (CCISC).
In addition, Dr. Minkoff is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists and is chair of their Health Policy Committee. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on CCISC, integrated services, and co-occurring conditions. He is also well-known for his expertise in public managed behavioral health care, and with David Pollack, MD, co-edited Managed Mental Health Care in the Public Sector: A Survival Manual.
Dr. Minkoff's major professional activity is the provision of training and consultation on recovery-oriented clinical services and systems design for individuals and families with mental health, substance use, and medical disorders, along with co-occurring conditions--helping organizations and systems become welcoming, recovery-oriented, and co-occurring- or complexity-capable. With his consulting partner, Christie Cline, MD, MBA, Dr. Minkoff has developed a systems change toolkit for CCISC implementation, with application for systems, agencies, programs, and clinicians.
Dr. Minkoff and/or Dr. Cline are currently providing or have provided consultation for CCISC implementation in over 35 states, 4 Canadian provinces, and 3 Australian states, working with every aspect of state- and county-level systems, tribal entities, and providers of all types.
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What People Are Saying
My experience with this module was enlightening. I received clarification on some issues I assumed that I knew. I now have a better understanding due to my participation in this course."
