Online Course Provides Guidance on IDDT
The course draws from the latest edition of the manual, and introduces the key principles, practices, and clinician skills of the evidence-based practice.
A new online introductory course, offered through Hazelden, provides care-givers guidance on implementing IDDT, the evidence-based practice on integrated treatment for people with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders.
The six-hour, ten-module course, "Introduction to Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment," presents central concepts, practices, and clinician skills discussed in the latest edition of the manual authored by faculty of the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center and published by Hazelden. Participants completing the course receive 22 continuing education hours.
Integrated treatment—the delivery of mental health and addiction treatment services by one team at one time in one setting—is the research-supported approach to the treatment of co-occurring disorders.
The online course includes case vignettes, interactive exercises, downloadable clinician tools and excerpts of the manual, and video of clinician experts and participants in IDDT-based programs. Continuing Education hours for the course are offered through the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors.
Course participants will learn about the prevalence of dual disorders and the improved outcomes offered by integrated treatment as well as the tools, practices, and clinician skills central to implementing effective care. Modules cover:
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screening and assessment
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the stages of treatment model
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appropriate interventions at each stage of treatment
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group programs
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central clinician skills, such as motivational interviewing.
The program also provides a detailed overview of recovery management, housing, and supported employment programs within the IDDT model.
Introduction to Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment is based on the latest edition of IDDT, published in 2010 by Hazelden. Course participants will have access to excerpts, guidelines, and clinician tools from the manual.
Hazelden Online Courses
Hazelden is also offering additional online courses on the treatment of co-occurring disorders and mental health disorders.
Courses include Twelve Step Recovery and the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety Disorders, a brief introduction to anxiety disorders and the evidence-based approaches to treatment. The course Integrating Treatment for Co-occurring Disorders focuses on best practices for the treatment substance-use disorders, reflecting information in SAMHSA’s TIP 42 and Dartmouth PRC-Hazelden’s Co-occurring Disorders Program.
