Webinar - Psychotherapeutic Medications 2011: New Online Resource for Counselors, Clients and Their Families

The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network announced a webinar hosted by the Mid-America ATTC. It's not youth-specific, but may be of interest to adolescent substance abuse treatement providers:
Psychotherapeutic Medications 2011: Announcing a New Online Resource for Counselors, Clients and Their Families
Hosted by: Mid-America ATTC
March 17, 2011
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (EASTERN)
Psychotherapeutic Medications 2011: What Every Counselor Should Know, 8th Edition, was originally developed in 1999 as a companion piece to a Mid-America ATTC curriculum, A Collaborative Response: Addressing the Needs of Consumers with Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders. Due to popular demand, the publication has become a desk-top reference for counselors across the United States and is now available in an online, searchable database!
Alex Barajas-Muñoz, M.S., Editor of Psychotherapeutic Medications 2011, along with Pat Stilen, LCSW, Director of Mid-America ATTC, will guide participants through a tour of the free, downloadable booklet and announce the just released, web-based online database resource.
Specific topics of discussion for this session include:

• How to access information about psychotherapeutic substance use disorder treatment medications with a list of their generic and brand names;
• Medication purpose, usual dose, frequency and side effects, emergency conditions, cautions and special considerations for pregnant women;
• Tips for communicating with physicians about clients’ medications
• Tips for communicating with clients about taking prescribed medications.

>>Register here.

 
 
Photo: Wesley Fryer.