Enhance your addiction professional skills with our 8 CE Substance Use Disorder Course Bundle. This bundle is ideal for counselors who wish to enhance their practice with SUD treatment skills and earn specific continuing education (CE) requirements. Covering fundamental aspects of SUD treatment, this bundle provides the essential training needed to excel as an addiction professional.

Key Features

• Expert Instructors: Learn from experienced professionals who are experts in SUD treatment.
• Flexible Learning: Complete the courses at your own pace with our user-friendly online platform.

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Invest in your professional development and expand your expertise and CE requirements with our Substance Use Disorder Treatment Course Bundle. Enhance your skills, expand your knowledge, and become a more effective substance use counselor.

Enrollment in this bundle is offered at a discount of more than 25% off the full price for each course.

This bundle consists of 4 individual non-interactive self-study courses that address topics of SUD Treatment. These courses offer a total of 8 CEs. Each course includes a separate certificate of completion. Courses included in this bundle:

• Telehealth and Substance Use Disorder, 1.5 CEs  (Learn More)
• Substance Use Disorder Treatment for the Family and the Use of Telehealth, 3 CEs  (Learn More)
• Recognizing and Responding to Behavioral Addictions, 1.5 CEs  (Learn More)
• Opiate Use Disorder Treatment: a SUD Counselor’s Guide, 2 CEs  (Learn More)

Once each course has been completed, individual Certificates of Completion indicating CEs will be issued.

Courses included in this bundle were recorded between 3/21/22 and 7/28/23

1. Telehealth and Substance Use Disorder, Online Self-Study

This presentation focuses on how to deliver substance use therapy via telehealth. How do you assess, conduct groups and individual sessions when working with the population that struggles with substance use disorder when using technology. This session will delve specifically into the pitfalls of assessment and group therapy when using telehealth to conduct the service. Participants will learn effective strategies to use in order to effectively provide care.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how telehealth is different than face-to-face for the SUD population.
• Implement some basic strategies, tips and techniques for a successful telehealth practice.
• Describe the essential tasks needed to be able to implement effective tele services with the SUD population.

2. Substance Use Disorder Treatment for the Family and the Use of Telehealth, Online Self-Study

The effects of a substance use disorder (SUD) are felt by the entire family (Lander, Howsare, & Byrne 2013). Substance use disorders (SUDs) are associated with many areas of a person’s life including medical, psychiatric, psychological, spiritual, economic, social, family, and legal problems. These problems can generate a considerable burden for the affected individuals, their families, and society (Daley, 2013). This workshop will address the effects of SUDs on the family system, including how to engage families in a tele-health setting. In this training we will also address family intervention techniques provided both on-site and virtually for clients with SUDs and their families. Family systems theory and attachment theory are theoretical models that provide a framework for understanding how SUDs affect the family (Birkeland, 2021).  We will explore these theories and how with the utilization of tele-health we can incorporate how to move families through the stages of change in their recovery process.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the family system model and strategies for engaging families in SUD treatment.
• Describe educational areas that families can benefit from as it pertains to SUD and how to offer the services in person or on tele-health.
• List the steps to a stage family intervention for a loved one suffering from SUD.
• Describe theoretical techniques to use when working with families with SUD.

3. Recognizing and Responding to Behavioral Addictions, Online Self-Study

Behavioral addictions such as gaming, gambling, sex, pornography, social media, and food affect a substantial number of clients, yet many counselors have not received formal training on how to treat behavioral addictions. In this presentation, attendees will learn how to recognize and respond to behavioral addictions in clinical practice. Specifically, the presenter will describe how to conceptualize behavioral addictions, the neuroscience of behavioral addictions, criteria of behavioral addictions, and several treatment considerations. Given that behavioral addictions affect individuals across the lifespan, this course is ideal for mental health professionals in all settings including schools, colleges, community agencies, hospitals, and private practice. 

Behavioral addictions are rewarding behaviors that become compulsive, out of control, continue despite negative consequences, and induce cravings or mental preoccupation. Like drugs of abuse, potentially addictive behaviors activate reward circuitry in the brain and are both positively and negatively reinforcing. Recent changes to diagnostic and disease classification manuals, in addition to growing concerns regarding the addictive nature of online activities, necessitate that all clinicians are able to recognize behavioral addictions in their clinical work. In addition, all mental health professionals must be equipped to respond ethically and effectively to behavioral addictions with a clear conceptualization guided by the most recent neuroscience. Participants can expect a robust overview of the criteria of behavioral addiction, the application of a public health model for conceptualizing addictive behaviors, individual risk factors for the development of behavioral addictions, and appropriate treatment approaches.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the evolving definition of addiction and conceptualize behavioral addictions using a public health model.
• Explain the criteria for behavioral addictions and how to differentiate between high involvement in a behavior and a behavioral addiction. 
• Synthesize current research and relevant neuroscience related to the prevalence and nature of behavioral addictions.

4. Opiate Use Disorder Treatment: a SUD Counselor’s Guide, Online Self-Study

Opiate abuse has become a significant problem for our country. Unlike many other substances, there are medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and recovery options for those that struggle with opiate use disorder. This can also create challenges as the traditional “abstinence-based” model of treatment may not be applicable for this population. This session will provide a broad overview of opiates and their differences; the different MAT options for clients; and how SUD counselors can best provide treatment services to them. Challenges with the abstinence-based model and the 12-step community will be explored. 

This session is specifically designed for counselors and will provide participants with basic understanding of MAT for opiate use disorder. Participants can expect to learn some fundamental strategies for working with this population and how to provide services within a group and individual setting as well as how MAT may fit into the treatment plan as a whole.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the differences in MAT medications.
• Identify and implement foundational counseling skills specific to this population.
• Engage in practical skills as a part of the treatment continuum to help provide services to this population

Credit Hours: This bundle consists of a total of 8 continuing education hours of credit. Each course offers an individual certificate of completion indicating CEs earned for that course.

Counselors: Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing these courses receive 8 total continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals: This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists: Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 480 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

These are non-interactive, self-study courses.

Online self-study courses are non-interactive and include recorded instruction, a post-test and evaluation.  Participants have 6 months from registration to complete coursework and claim the certificate of completion.