Substance Use Disorder Treatment for People With Co-Occurring Disorders (30 hours)

About This Course Your Course Instructor Course Formats This 30 hour course, authored by Dennis Daley, Ph.D., is intended to provide addiction counselors and other providers, supervisors, and administrators with the latest science in the screening, assessment, diagnosis, and management of co-occurring disorders (CODs). For purposes of this course, the term CODs refers to co-occurring substance use disorders (SUDs) and mental disorders. Clients with CODs have one or more disorders relating to the use of alcohol or other substances with misuse potential as well as one or more mental disorders. A diagnosis of CODs occurs when at least one disorder of each type can be established independently of the other and is not simply a cluster of symptoms resulting from the one disorder. The course is organized to guide counselors and other addiction professionals sequentially through the primary components of proper identification and management of CODs. The course is divided into chapters so t