Behavioral Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives (12 CE)

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1165CE

Course Level: Intermediate

This course is for: Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors

Course Format: This is a self-paced (non-interactive), online course. Participants are required to read the course materials and complete a post-test with a score of 75% or higher.

Course Developed By: Helen Hinton, LPCC

Content By: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Behavioral Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 61. HHS Publication No. (SMA) 185070EXSUMM. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2018.

Course Description:  American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) experience behavioral health disparities pertaining to care access, service delivery, and treatment outcomes. Consequently, there is an existent need for appropriate, accessible, and available services that can address these issues. Suicide rates for AI/NA are more than double that of the overall US population. AI/AN women experience sexual victimization at a rate that exceeds that of any other ethnic group.  Individuals in the AI/AN demographic are also at an increased risk of substance abuse vulnerability and mental health disorder development due to the concomitant effects of violence and trauma, historical trauma, poverty, unemployment, and the loss of cultural traditions.  Culturally responsive strategies for holistic trauma-informed service implementation are explored in this course. An implementation guide for service providers, administrators, and clinical supervisors is also included to support effective behavioral health care service delivery across diverse treatment settings. Finally, workforce development resources and related evidence-based programs and practices are examined as viable and sustainable approach-types that may be effectively implemented for AI/AN.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the behavioral health needs and cultural considerations that are specific to the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) demographics
  • Explain how the cyclical nature of historical trauma has present-day repercussions for AI/AN communities
  • Identify demographic-specific social challenges, behavioral health issues, and help-seeking behavior
  • List practice strategies for culturally responsive trauma-informed service delivery
  • Examine client vignettes and identify the knowledge and skills necessary for the delivery of effective services
  • Identify AI/AN culture-specific factors that contribute to grief, loss, and mistrust
  • Explain patterns of substance abuse relative to AI/AN
  • Determine how the awareness of beliefs, values, biases, and worldview on behalf of the therapist may serve to influence the counseling relationship
  • Cite examples of the way traditional spiritual practices contribute to holistic healing
  • Explain how the cycle of Native cultural identity, assimilation, and reconnection determines the role of culture in clients’ lives
  • Examine culturally responsive services in consideration of the existent need for community leader, council, and familial participation
  • Identify the core elements of a culturally competent workforce, organization and program
  • Understand the processes that are necessary for successful development, implementation, and sustainability of culturally competent and responsive programs and practices
  • Explore the ways that the tenets of AI/NA literature and evidence-based practice curriculums can be implemented across behavioral health settings

Course Outline:

  • Read and understand Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Behavioral Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 61
  • Read and review the Course Description and Learning Objectives
  • Work through the literature to gain an understanding of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) demographics, social challenges and related behavioral health needs
  • Review the strategies for delivering culturally responsive and trauma-informed services across behavioral health settings
  • Work through the post-test questions; bear in mind that answer selections should be derived from the respective journal article
  • Return to the referenced article for any missed questions and/or to review the identified resources for additional adaptations and methods for employing behavioral health services for American Indians and Alaska Natives

Course Completion Requirements: All course materials are included in your AATBS student account. Attendees must read the course material and complete the accompanying test with a score of 75% or higher. Customers may retest if they score below 75%.

Evaluation: The course evaluation is also accessible in your student account. After completing the course, you will need to complete the course evaluation.

How certificate is issued: When all requirements for the course have been successfully completed, customers will be able to access and print a personal CE certificate in their student account.

Approvals:

Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5750. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

The Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences, provider #1085, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AATBS maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 06/19/2021 – 06/19/2024.

Social workers completing this course receive 12 clinical continuing education credits.

Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling - #50-11015

Florida Board of Psychology #50-5452

NYSED:

Social Workers: Association for the Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences 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-0112.

Counselors: Association for the Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Counselors as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed counselors #MHC-0165.

Marriage Family Therapists: Association for the Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage Family Therapists as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed Marriage Family Therapists #MFT-0077.

Psychologists: The Association for the Advanced Training in the Behavioral Science 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-0164.

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More Information
Board Approvals American Psychological Association (APA), Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), NBCC, Florida Board - Social Work, MFT, Counseling, and Psychology, NYSED - Social Work, MFT and Counseling Only, American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders
CE Format Online, Text-Based