Training Products

Designed to be used by trainers already well versed in their subject matter, these packages include agendas, slides/overheads, speaker notes, and syntheses of relevant research, bibliographies, references, and key articles.

For copies, please contact Monica Velazquez, Project Coordinator at (312) 996-0966 or monivela@uic.edu.

Recovery Management (William L. White, MA, Ernest Kurtz, PhD, and Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, 2006):  This new monograph addresses a critical facet of the chronic nature of addictive disease:  The need for ongoing recovery management and recovery support services.  In three in-depth articles, William White and his co-authors explore the critical need for these services, their nature and varieties, their benefits, and the many questions and challenges the field will have to address as we move toward recovery-based responses to addictive disorders.   These articles synthesize scientific findings with key recommendations from grassroots recovery advocacy/support organizations.  From policy issues to core recovery management strategies, Recovery Management has sparked widespread discussion of this critical element of success for so many clients.

The Magnet:  A Plan for Aligning Purpose and Professional Practice (Pamela Woll, MA, CADP, 2006).  This workbook is designed to help human service professionals examine, direct, and strengthen their careers based on a number of considerations, including higher purpose, passion, commitment, interest, practicality, and healthy levels of stress.  The Magnet process is designed to help readers:  1) Gather information about the work they are doing, the work they most want to do, and the work that may be most important;  2) Place this information within the context of the practical and financial realities of their chosen field(s), the economy in general, and their lives;  3) Make some decisions about how they choose to spend their time and effort;  and 4) Set up systems and relationships that will help them carry out these choices successfully.

Healing the Stigma of Addiction:  A Guide for Treatment Professionals (Pamela Woll, MA, CADP, 2005 Edition):  This self-study manual has helped many treatment professionals understand and address the often-devastating effects of the stigma of addiction on clients, families, and society as a whole.  It combines conceptual information, examples, and workbook exercises to help the student integrate the information and apply it to everyday practice.  The manual's balanced focus on stigma within the individual and stigma in society allows students to evaluate and choose stigma-reduction roles that are appropriate to their own skills and values.  Its casual style makes it user-friendly, while its thought-provoking concepts and questions challenge students to develop a deeper understanding of the stigma of addiction and a deeper commitment to its healing in the lives of clients, families, and society as a whole.  Eight CEUs are awarded for successful completion of the workbook exercises.

Clinical Approaches: Addressing the Problem of Stigma is a two-day course notebook developed for Governors State University ö includes course materials and references designed to explore the origin and effects of stigma, ways of assessing and addressing stigma in treatment and public education to reduce stigma. Syllabus included as a companion.

Screening and Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an 11-day course and reference materials for implementing a hospital-based project designed for the Cook County Hospital Bureau of Health Services in Chicago, Illinois. Three-hole-punched manual approximately 300 pages. Costs:

The Triple Challenge: Optimizing HIV Treatment for Patients with Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders developed in collaboration with Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC). Two grand rounds modular presentations focusing on the Clinician caring for patients challenged with HIV, mental health and addiction. The product is designed to be presented by physicians or teams of physicians who are already familiar with HIV/AIDS treatment for people with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental illness and can speak to the complexities of drug interactions, pain management, etc. Trainers include physicians such as psychiatrists and addictionologists working with HIV patients. Presentation I focuses on Managing HIV Treatment, Presentation II on Identification and Referral Management. Costs:

Examples of National ATTC Network Resources & Publications

Best Practices in Addiction Treatment: a Workshop Facilitatorâs Guide (BPAT) a training curriculum designed to give clinicians the skills they need to implement specific evidence-based practice, but rather to help them conceptualize how research-based methods can improve treatments outcomes for clients.

Clinical Supervision: Building Chemical Dependency Counselor Skills A workshop that focuses on the teaching and mentoring aspects of clinical supervision in addiction treatment settings.

For information on obtaining these and many other products please visit the National ATTC website at www.nattc.org.