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This course offers basic overdose education for recognizing and responding to an opioid overdose. The course highlights overdose causes, risks, signs, and prevention. Opioid overdose reversal medications are discussed and overdose response steps are given.
2.0 hrs
Self-study
$12
Free State Social Work
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course examines the personal and professional experiences of mental health professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic and the rapid pivot to telehealth. 36 mental health professionals participated in interviews and highlighted the following themes: responding to the pandemic, introducing telehealth, impact on professional practice, and the future of telehealth. The course explores the strengths and weaknesses related to the adoption of telehealth during the Covid-19 pandemic, implications for practice, and the future of telehealth.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course examines the topic of implicit bias in healthcare and the role of the healthcare provider in addressing implicit bias and prioritizing equitable care. The course explores the science of implicit bias, the social groups most affected by implicit bias, and the impact on health outcomes. Mitigation strategies are identified and include self-reflection, simulation-based education, counter-stereotypic strategies, emotional regulation, and mindfulness meditation.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course explores evidence and practice issues related to grief, bereavement, and coping with loss. The course compares different types of grief reactions and includes models of normal grief, patterns of complicated grief, and risk factors for complicated grief. Using the DSM-5, the course differentiates a normal grieving process from a major depressive episode. Treatment considerations are discussed. In addition, the course looks at the grief experiences of medical providers as well as grief in children.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This updated course explores communication in cancer care and highlights the importance of effective, high-quality, bidirectional communication for patients and families. The course examines the challenges involved in cancer-related communication and acknowledges that better models and strategies are needed. Research findings, communication models, and demographic and cultural considerations are discussed.
2.0 hrs
Self-study
$12
Free State Social Work
This course explores potential implicit bias in healthcare by looking at stigmatizing language in the healthcare record. The course highlights a study using machine learning to analyze electronic health records using 15 different patient descriptors and discusses results and recommendations.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course explores the ethical challenges experienced by social workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and offers a framework for understanding ethics during a time of crisis. Four broad responses to ethical challenges were identified and include ethical confusion, ethical distress, ethical creativity, and ethical learning.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course offers an ethical analysis of the mitigation measures, restrictions, and social isolation of long term care residents during the Covid-19 pandemic. The course explores concepts of harm, proportionality, reciprocity, and transparency. Ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, maleficence, and justice are examined.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course highlights the political action and leadership of early African American social workers and their work challenging discrimination and injustice while advocating for systemic change. It uses Lane and Pritzker's five domains of political social work practice as a framework and includes the NASW 2021 Blueprint of Federal and Social Policy Priorities.
2.0 hrs
Self-study
$12
Free State Social Work
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course uses communication theory to explore the benefits and challenges of communication technology on the social worker-client relationship. The course examines the importance of resolving ethical issues related to ICT use, digital literacy, and social work practice. The following ethical issues are highlighted: boundaries, client well-being, professional competence, privacy, confidentiality, cultural competence, and social justice.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course explores the unique needs and challenges of older adults with serious mental illness and provides an overview of evidence-based psychosocial interventions. Five interventions are examined including Assertive Community Treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training, Functional Adaptation Skills Training, Integrated Illness Management and Recovery, and Helping Older People Experience Success.
2.0 hrs
Self-study
$12
Free State Social Work
This course offers an overview of the behavioral health service needs, challenges, and opportunities of individuals experiencing homelessness. The course highlights five evidence-based interventions, including medication for opioid use disorder, motivational interviewing, intensive case management, Community Reinforcement Approach, and peer support.
3.0 hrs
Self-study
$18
Free State Social Work
This course explores recent research on stimulant use disorders along with best treatment practices. The course examines how cocaine, methamphetamine, and prescription stimulants affect neurobiology, the brain, and behavior. Common medical and psychological complications are discussed. The course describes the best supported treatment approaches; contingency management is highlighted as the primary psychosocial treatment for stimulant disorders. Strategies for supporting patients in treatment and recovery are given.
11.0 hrs
Self-study
$66
Free State Social Work
This course explores the unique needs of special populations experiencing stimulant use disorders. The course examines treatment and care considerations for racial/ethnic minorities, women, men who have sex with men, the transgender and gender nonbinary community, adolescents, people experiencing homelessness, rural populations, people involved with the criminal justice system, people with or at risk for HIV/AIDs, and more. Strategies are given for improving engagement, rapport, and treatment outcomes.
4.0 hrs
Self-study
$24
Free State Social Work
This course is the second of a 3-part series on recovery from problematic substance use and offers a framework for supporting recovery with counseling. The course explores strengths-based, recovery-oriented counseling and includes a discussion of values, recovery capital, unconditional positive regard, cues for health and well-being, self-efficacy, and motivation.
2.0 hrs
Self-study
$12
Free State Social Work
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course explores trauma assessment and treatment considerations for lesbian, gay, and bisexual veterans. The course identifies unique stressors experienced by sexual minoritized veterans and provides context for minority stress and trauma. Topics of post-traumatic stress disorder, Criterion A events, diagnostic assessment, rapport, and evidence-based practice are discussed. Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy are highlighted.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course explores the history of artificial intelligence, the use of algorithms, and the influence of algorithms on areas of healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice. The course highlights concerns related to the implementation of AI that include injustices to marginalized groups. The course outlines four ways for social workers to advocate for digital inclusion and social justice: resist, regulate, reimagine, and reinforce.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course examines the prevalence of prescription stimulant use and misuse among youth and young adults. Short and long term health effects of prescription stimulant use are explored along with risk and protective factors. Opportunities for prevention are discussed, and considerations for screening, assessment, and treatment are given.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This course explores the potential harms of biased language in child welfare practice and offers strategies for reducing implicit or unconscious bias and improving practice. The course examines key concepts to understanding language bias in child welfare, including neutral language, labels, the concrete-to abstract continuum, and sociolinguistic inequality.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
This thought-provoking course explores the relationship between social work and the child welfare system and critiques the federal Title IV-E training program and the ethical conflicts involved in training MSW students to regulate families. The course examines the forces of racism, classism, misogyny, and injustice within the child welfare system.
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6
Free State Social Work
1.0 hr
Self-study
$6