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Opportunities for Change – Addressing Tobacco and Nicotine Use in Behavioral Health Settings
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Individuals living with serious mental health conditions die on average 25 years earlier than the general population, most often from tobacco related cancer, heart disease, and lung disease.

If you work in the behavioral health field, you know that tobacco can be a difficult issue to address. Your clients – people with mental health diagnoses – are more likely to use tobacco, to smoke more and to have a harder time quitting than those without such a diagnosis. However, these individuals want to quit and CAN quit. But they may need some extra support.

Join other behavioral health professionals and MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence Training and Education staff for a half-day training to learn more about confronting tobacco use in individuals with behavioral health conditions.

Tobacco Intervention: Intensive Skills
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This two-day skills-focused training will build on knowledge gained in the Tobacco Intervention: Basic Skills Training. Participants will:

  • Explore the value of a comprehensive tobacco use assessment
  • Learn to develop effective treatment plans
  • Discuss considerations for medication management
  • Review relapse prevention strategies

Clinicians will also spend time building on common counseling skills used in intensive tobacco treatment such as motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.

This training is appropriate for individuals who have completed the Basic Skills Training within the past five years and are interested in increasing their tobacco treatment skills. The training is a requirement for those interested in the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice.

Registration fee includes a continental breakfast and lunch

 

Tobacco Intervention: Intensive Skills
Posted on by ed

 

This two-day skills-focused training will build on knowledge gained in the Tobacco Intervention: Basic Skills Training. Participants will:

  • Explore the value of a comprehensive tobacco use assessment
  • Learn to develop effective treatment plans
  • Discuss considerations for medication management
  • Review relapse prevention strategies

Clinicians will also spend time building on common counseling skills used in intensive tobacco treatment such as motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.

This training is appropriate for individuals who have completed the Basic Skills Training within the past five years and are interested in increasing their tobacco treatment skills. The training is a requirement for those interested in the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice.

Registration fee includes a continental breakfast and lunch.

 

Tobacco Intervention: Basic Skills Training
Posted on by ed

 

Join other healthcare professionals in this one-day training to learn more about nicotine addiction and how to integrate brief, evidence-based tobacco treatment interventions into current practice.  The Basic Skills Training is open to all healthcare professionals, prevention professionals, and community members who are interested in learning more about the burden of tobacco and strategies for treatment. The daylong Tobacco Intervention: Basic Skills Training includes: Tobacco prevalence, products and burden; Motivational Interviewing; Brief Interventions; Tobacco Treatment Medications; and Quit Planning.The training is a requirement for those interested in the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice.

 

Tobacco Intervention: Basic Skills Training
Posted on by ed

 

Join other healthcare professionals in this one-day training to learn more about nicotine addiction and how to integrate brief, evidence-based tobacco treatment interventions into current practice.  The Basic Skills Training is open to all healthcare professionals, prevention professionals, and community members who are interested in learning more about the burden of tobacco and strategies for treatment. The daylong Tobacco Intervention: Basic Skills Training includes: Tobacco prevalence, products and burden; Motivational Interviewing; Brief Interventions; Tobacco Treatment Medications; and Quit Planning.The training is a requirement for those interested in the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice.

 

Tobacco Intervention: Basic Skills Training
Posted on by ed

 

Join other healthcare professionals in this one-day training to learn more about nicotine addiction and how to integrate brief, evidence-based tobacco treatment interventions into current practice.  The Basic Skills Training is open to all healthcare professionals, prevention professionals, and community members who are interested in learning more about the burden of tobacco and strategies for treatment.

The training is a requirement for those interested in the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice.