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Recovery from White Conditioning: Building Anti-Racist Practice and Community
The Center for Practice Transformation and the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series is proud to co-host this Special Webinar Series. The Model of Recovery from White Conditioning, a derivative work based on the…
Partnering With Tribal Communities to Promote Well-Being and Decrease Opioid Overdose Deaths
Partnering with Tribal Communities PPT The opioid crisis is a current threat to American Indian health, yet American Indian tribal nations are resilient and determined. In Minnesota, American Indians have five to six times the opioid overdose death rate of other groups—the largest such disparity in the United…
An Indigenous Perspective of Co-Occurring Disorders
We will discuss a re-framing of mental health and substance use based on culturally-specific work in the American Indian community, including how historical trauma is a precipitating event, and how DSM diagnostic codes fall short of accurately describing conditions. We will focus on the indigenous view of health as holistic, and cultural teachings for healing and resilience that can be used for any client population.
Depression and Substance Use
Dr. Wilson provides an overview of depression and substance use in adolescence and adulthood, including issues of prevalence, risk factors, comorbidity, and familial transmission.
Helping Caregivers of Aging Loved Ones Find Support
Join U of M faculty Drs. Liz Lightfoot and Rajean Moone who will share their stories and provide helpful tips and supports for family and friend caregivers caring for an aging parent either in a long term care facility or in the community.
Deaths of Despair
In this webinar we explore the causes and solutions related to both opioid overdose deaths and suicides.
Bearing Witness: Traumatic Stress and the Helping Professional
Participants will learn to identify and monitor indicators and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress conditions and their impact. Participants will also learn to recognize important differences among vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, moral injury, compassion fatigue, burnout, and their implications for job performance. We will address risk factors,…
Pain & Addiction: Common Threads
Dr. Frenz provides a thorough review of the literature on the effectiveness of opioids for the treatment of pain and addiction. Patients with chronic pain syndromes and opioid addiction are probably best served by opioid agonist therapy. This treatment improves addiction outcomes and may offer collateral benefit for chronic pain.