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Description
Addressing the Needs of Women and Girls: Developing Core Competencies for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Professionals (3 CE Hours)
To complete this course, please review the course material and post-test below. When you are ready to purchase the course and submit the post-test, click “take this course” at the top right hand side of this page.
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Author(s):
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2011). Addressing the Needs of Women and Girls: Developing Core Competencies for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Professionals. HHS Pub. No. (SMA) 11-4657. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Learning Objectives:
Through the completion of this course, learners will gain awareness of what knowledge and skills are necessary in working with women and girls by:
- Becoming aware of how the differences in males and females, the development of mental disorders, interventions, and prevention.
- Recognizing and exploring the value of relationships for women and girls.
- Identify the effects of trauma on women and girls.
- Learn how symptoms and interventions for mental disorders change during the course of pregnancy.
- Examine the co-occurrence between mental health disorders and health issues.
- Develop awareness of the need for collaboration in working with women and girls.
- Examine the importance of attitude and attributes in working with women and girls.