Social Worker

1. Define and describe the concept of racial trauma, including its various manifestations and impacts on individuals and communities, as outlined in the provided article.
2. Describe the six common sources of racial trauma.
3. Outline the four core psychological wounds associated with racial trauma
4. Summarize the importance of identity and belonging in relation to racial trauma, including how these factors are essential for safety, survival, sanity, esteem, relationships, and overall well-being, as discussed by the speaker in the group discussions.
5. Identify strategies and interventions to help build or rebuild identity and a sense of belonging among individuals affected by racial trauma.

1. Describe the forms of noninvasive nonpharmacological treatment for chronic pain that are discussed in the article.
2. Outline the evidence for various noninvasive nonpharmacological treatment for chronic pain.

1. Conceptualize addiction from a schema therapy perspective.
2. Describe approaches for empathically engaging and confronting clients struggling with addictions.
3. Outline approaches to hep clients with addictions build a healthy adult self while healing attachment and other core needs.
4. Describe how to balance change, setting limits, and meeting real needs in the therapy process.
5. Summarize how to target the central addictve mode with clients struggling with addiction.

1. Define and describe the role of behavioral interventions, such as CBT, biofeedback, and relaxation training, in reducing migraine frequency and disability.
   Outline and summarize the comparative effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction and other behavioral therapies versus pharmacologic treatments for migraine prevention.
2. Identify the limitations and gaps in the existing evidence on behavioral interventions for migraines, particularly in pediatric and adolescent populations.
3. Describe the potential benefits of integrating biopsychosocial factors into migraine prevention strategies and their implications for future research.

1. Define and describe the cognitive-affective vulnerabilities associated with alcohol and prescription opioid use in the context of chronic pain, including pain-related anxiety, catastrophizing, distress intolerance, and anxiety sensitivity.
2. Outline and summarize the reciprocal relationship between chronic pain and substance use and identify key components of integrated interventions targeting maladaptive coping mechanisms.

About half of all adults who are homeless have substance use disorders, and many have co occurring mental illnesses, as well. Yet, the outlook is far from bleak. Federal demonstration programs and the experience of hundreds of community-based providers offer a rich reservoir of evidence-based and promising practices. For example, recent studies reveal that the cost of providing permanent, supportive housing for people with serious mental illnesses is more than offset by savings incurred by the public hospital, prison, and shelter systems (Culhane et al., 2001). When nothing is done, people with serious mental illnesses and/or co occurring substance use disorders who are homeless often cycle between the streets, jails, and high-cost care, including emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals. This is inhumane, ineffective, and costly.

Further, research reveals that people with serious mental illnesses and/or co occurring substance use disorders who are homeless, once believed to be unreachable and difficult-to-serve, can be engaged into services, can accept and benefit from mental health services and substance abuse treatment, and can remain in stable housing with appropriate supports (Lam and Rosenheck, 1999; Morse, 1999; Lipton et al., 2000; Rosenheck et al., 1998).

• Describe how treatment for serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders has evolved
• Recognize individual risk factors
• Develop the infrastructure for change
• Create a system that supports recovery
• Engage in strategic planning
• Outline societal risks
• Utilize mainstream resources to prevent homelessness
• Describe the concept and practice of recovery
• Support values that put people first
• Create a system that supports recovery
• Use mainstream resources to prevent homelessness
• Improve access to mainstream programs
• Expand the capacity of mainstream programs
• Promote coordination and collaboration
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

1. Define the main digital interventions that were explored using a consensus development panel approach
2. Summarize the key ethical considerations of using Virtual Environments in the Assessment and Treatment of Psychopathological Disorders
3. Explain the benefits and difficulties of using video conferencing for psychotherapy with children.
4. Outline the top five arguments in favor of and against online psychotherapy

• Identify ethical issues related to use of social media by mental health professionals.
• Describe ethical principles that come into play given the presence of the Internet and social media in therapists' and clients' lives.
• Formulate their own ethical and risk management framework for internet and social media issues in professional practice.

1. Define the concept of harm reduction
2. List a number of evidence-based interventions that counselors can use to support clients in substance-use recovery.
3. Describe the research projects being conducted by the National Institute of Health’s research network.

1. Define historical trauma and its impact on African American communities as distinguished form individual trauma:
2. Identify the various ways historical trauma manifests in African American individuals, families, and communities, including its effects on physical, psychological, and social well-being.
3. Summarize strategies for addressing trauma and promoting healing within African American communities:
4. Describe opportunities for addressing loss, including facilitating effective and culturally relevant grieving and building new dreams after losses have been witnessed, honored, and laid to rest.
5. Summarize strategies for recognizing and addressing historical and intergenerational losses in individuals, including understanding the role of grief and approaches to supporting individuals in processing these losses with humility, compassion, and respect.
6. Summarize the protective factors contributing to resilience among African American individuals, families, communities, and cultures.
7. Describe the implications of historical experiences, such as chronic suffering and oppression, on the development of resilience, wisdom, strength, and courage among African Americans.

1. Describe the importance of integrated treatment for individuals with co-occurring alcohol use disorder (AUD) and mental health conditions (MHCs), including its benefits and challenges.
2. Identify key screening tools and treatment approaches used to diagnose and manage co- occurring AUD and MHCs effectively.

• can describe suicide first aid goal and their helping role.
• aware of how attitudes about suicide affect helping.
• can describe and apply the PAL model.
• know about community resources and networks.
• more willing, confident and able to provide suicide first aid.
• can attend to own safety.

• Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide.
• Provide life-assisting guidance to persons at risk in a flexible manner.
• Identify what needs to be in a person at risk's plan for safety.
• Demonstrate the skills required to provide suicide first-aid to a person at risk of suicide.
• Describe the value of improving community resources including the way that they work together.
• Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention and, includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk and caregivers
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

• Challenge attitudes that inhibit open talk about suicide.
• Recognize a person who might be having thoughts of suicide.
• Engage them in direct and open talk about suicide
• Listen to the person's feelings about suicide and show that they are taken seriously.
• Move quickly to connect them with someone trained in suicide intervention.
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

1. describe the potential neurocognitive processes that become dysregulated due to addiction and may be improved through MBIs
2. outline the current state of research regarding clinical outcomes of mindfulness-based treatment for addiction
3. compile a list of recommendations for future research related to mindfulness-based treatment for addiction

1. Describe key nonpharmacologic treatments for maternal mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
2. Identify the strengths and limitations of the evidence base for nonpharmacologic treatments in addressing maternal mental health conditions during the perinatal period.
3. Outline the role of various assessment tools, such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), in evaluating the effectiveness of nonpharmacologic interventions.

1. Define the term overdose and explain common risk factors of overdose.
2. List the recommended steps involved in responding to an overdose.
3. Summarize current overdose prevention strategies being used in the United States.

• notice and respond to situations where suicide thoughts may be present.
• recognize that invitations for help are often overlooked.
• move beyond the common tendency to miss, dismiss, and avoid suicide.
• apply the TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen, KeepSafe.
• know community resources and how to connect someone with thoughts of suicide to them for further suicide-safer help.