Harm Reduction Summer Learning Series
Free On-Demand CEU Courses You Can’t Miss
Five self-paced, on-demand courses with up to 5.0 continuing education credits/contact hours for numerous provider types
Explore these five reaccredited courses from DC Engage, each offering expert insights on current topics in harm reduction and drug user health:
- Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: The Seven Therapeutic Tasks, Skills, and Strategies
- Needs of Returning Citizens with Substance Abuse Disorders
- Stimulants and Psychosis: Prescription Stimulant Misuse and Abuse
- Stimulants and Psychosis: Etiology, Epidemiology, and Management
- Cocaine and Methamphetamine Use: Strategies for Addressing Acute Intoxication and Withdrawal.
These courses are intended for Community Health Workers, Nurses, Social Workers, Medical and Non Medical Case Managers, Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants. You can earn up to a total of 5.0 continuing education credits/contact hours (AAPA, AMA, CME, CNE, CPE, IPCE) at no cost when completing all modules.
Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: The Seven Therapeutic Tasks, Skills, and Strategies
Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy consists of seven therapeutic tasks: managing the therapeutic alliance, the therapeutic relationship heals, enhancing self-management, assessment as treatment, embracing ambivalence, harm reduction goal setting and personalized planning for positive change.
Needs of Returning Citizens with Substance Use Disorders
This module covers the various health and social needs of previously incarcerated individuals with substance use disorders upon returning home to their Washington, D.C. communities.
Stimulants and Psychosis: Prescription Stimulant Misuse and Abuse
This course gives providers the tools necessary to better identify prescription stimulant misuse and abuse and how to address these concerns before they develop into chronic issues.
Stimulants and Psychosis: Etiology, Epidemiology, and Management
This course highlights the prevalence and causes of stimulant-based psychosis, describes how to care for a patient experiencing stimulant-based psychosis, and provides resources for individuals who experience this type of psychosis.
Cocaine and Methamphetamine Use: Strategies for Addressing Acute Intoxication and Withdrawal
This course discusses the addiction hypothesis behind cocaine and methamphetamine use in order to provide strategies for addressing intoxication and withdrawal.