Education and Training

Learn from experts in the field. MnTC offers a variety of online learning opportunities on topics related to substance use disorders, alcohol and drug prevention, behavioral health issues, and more.

2023

Addressing Trauma in Family Members Impacted by Addiction – Strategies for Healing

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

Treating Opioid Dependance – One Person at a Time

CEU Amount: 1
Length: 1 Hour

Managing Personality Disordered Clients in a Co-Occurring Setting

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

2022

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Working with SUD, Moms, and Child Protection

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

Addiction Intervention for Co-occurring Clients: Practical Guidelines to Help Resistant Clients Get Care

CEU Amount: 1.5
Length: 1.5 Hours

2021

Spirituality, Science & Addiction Treatment – Faith as an Evidence Based Intervention for Substance Dependence

CEU Amount: 1
Length: 1 Hour

Medical Interventions for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

Adversarial Voice Therapy

CEU Amount: 1.5
Length: 1.5 Hours

Client Engagement & Retention in Addiction Treatment: Best Practices

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

The Science and Art of Engaging Resistant and Traumatized Youth

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

Working with and Advocating for Mother’s with Substance Use Disorder

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

2020

Criminal Thinking, Mental Health, And Relapse Prevention Integrated Therapeutic Approaches

CEU Amount: 1
Length: 1 Hour

Hope In The Time Of COVID-19

CEU Amount: 1
Length: 1 Hour

Addition “Intervention” Skills During COVID-19

CEU Amount: 1
Length: 1.25 Hours

Cultural Bias And Sensitivity In Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Cultural Beliefs And Recovery

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

Out of Options – Working With The Most Challenging Teens

CEU Amount: 1.5
Length: 1.5 Hours

Criminal Thinking, Substance Use Disorder, And Recovery Evidence-Informed Practices And Panel Discussion

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

Building Emotional Grit And Resilience – A Practical Guide

CEU Amount: 1.5
Length: 1.5 Hours

Women, Treatment, and Recovery: The Importance of Gender Responsivity

CEU Amount: 2
Length: 2 Hours

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Addressing Trauma in Family Members Impacted by Addiction – Strategies for Healing

Addressing Trauma in Family Members Impacted by Addiction - Strategies for Healing

Addiction devastates both those abusing mood altering substances as well as their loved ones. Consequently it’s not just the substance user who needs help but the family members as well. This webinar will help participants understand:

1. The emotional trauma family members experience while loving someone engaged in active addiction.
2. Clinical goals in helping family members heal from trauma.
3. Clinical interventions that address maladaptive thinking by family members.
4. Reasonable ways family members can develop healthy boundaries and concurrently support loved ones in recovery.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Treating Opioid Dependance – One Person at a Time

Treating Opioid Dependance – One Person at a Time

Opioid dependence and overdose deaths continue to ravage our world – however that’s not the entire story. Each year thousands of individuals recover from opioid dependence utilizing a variety of clinical and medical best practices. This webinar will help participants understand a variety of treatment interventions that are both saving and transforming the lives of individuals who were previously addicted to opioids.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Managing Personality Disordered Clients in a Co-Occurring Setting

Managing Personality Disordered Clients in a Co-Occurring Setting

Personality disorders are present in an estimated 34.8-73% of clients treated for substance use disorders. Of the three clusters of personality disorders, cluster B is the most commonly seen in treatment settings. In this training, you will learn what a personality disorder is, how to identify characteristics of cluster B personality disorders, and simple techniques that will allow you to manage personality disordered clients.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly: Working with SUD, Moms, and Child Protection

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Working with SUD, Moms, and Child Protection

This webinar is designed for social workers, CPS workers, and clinicians that work with moms struggling with substance use disorder and who have active child protection cases. It will address a range of issues including family systems; generational impacts of substance use disorder (SUD); severity of SUD; legal time frames; pathways to reunification; and a range of resources.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Addiction Intervention for Co-occurring Clients: Practical Guidelines to Help Resistant Clients Get Care

Addiction Intervention for Co-occurring Clients: Practical Guidelines to Help Resistant Clients Get Care

Anyone who has witnessed the impact of substance use disorder on another’s life understands the chaos caused by addiction and untreated mental health. This webinar is designed for people working in, or interested in, the fields of substance use disorder and mental health, and for those who work with clients having a dual-diagnosis of substance use disorder and a mental health disorder. Join us as addiction clinician and national intervention specialist Drew Horowitz and host Saul Selby discuss insights and best practices about the intervention process— how it works, who should be involved, if and when to take action, how to prepare, and important information about the stages of treatment and recovery. In addition, we will discuss how intervention can disrupt the cycle of addiction, and share techniques and best practices for working with people impacted by a dual-diagnoses of substance use and a mental health disorder, whether you are a professional, a pastor or clergy member, or a concerned individual.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Spirituality, Science & Addiction Treatment – Faith as an Evidence Based Intervention for Substance Dependence

Spirituality, Science & Addiction Treatment – Faith as an Evidence Based Intervention for Substance Dependence

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Medical Interventions for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders

Medical Interventions for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Adversarial Voice Therapy

Adversarial Voice Therapy

Clients struggling with self-destructive behaviors like addiction often find that their own thinking encourages them to act-out these behaviors despite the desire to resistant them. Adversarial Voice Therapy (AVT) is a unique and simple technique designed to help clients more effectively identify and resist this voice by conceptualizing it as an adversary with a personality, intention, name and form.

Webinar Objectives
• Compare Adversarial Voice Therapy (AVT) to other cognitive behavioral treatments
• Enable clients to name the “adversary” responsible for self-destructive impulses
• Enable clients to identify thoughts and triggers the precipitate self-destructive behavior
• Enable clients to identify, practice and engage resistant measures to adversarial impulses

To prepare for this webinar it is advisable (but not required) to preview the following:
• Slick The Voice of Addiction Video
• Howard Stern and Joe Namath Discuss Slick Sound Clip

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Client Engagement and Retention in Addiction Treatment: Best Practices

Client Engagement and Retention in Addiction Treatment: Best Practices

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching The Science and Art of Engaging Resistant and Traumatized Youth

The Science and Art of Engaging Resistant and Traumatized Youth

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Working with and Advocating for Mother’s with Substance Use Disorder

Working with and Advocating for Mother’s with Substance Use Disorder

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Criminal Thinking, Mental Health, And Relapse Prevention Integrated Therapeutic Approaches

Criminal Thinking, Mental Health, And Relapse Prevention Integrated Therapeutic Approaches

In addition to polysubstance and mental health disorders, clients with extensive justice system involvement often have criminal patterns of thinking and behavior that present a clinical challenge to treatment programs. This webinar will examine the interaction of these issues, along with evidence-based principles, and practices to address them.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Hope In The Time Of COVID-19

Hope In The Time Of COVID-19

During this pandemic, people who suffer with mental health and substance use issues are extremely vulnerable and at risk due to the isolation, quarantine and social-distancing measures that have been necessary. We are seeing increased substance use, relapses for those who were solidly in recovery, and overdoses. These realities strain our behavioral health care delivery system and challenge both our current standards of practice and the capacities of our clinicians. How do we effectively instill hope? What are the sources and drivers of despair? How do we apply evidence-based interventions and methods that are proven to increase health, well-being, positive emotion, and most importantly, hope?

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Addiction ‘Intervention’ Skills During COVID-19 Webinar

Addiction ‘Intervention’ Skills During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed a number of unique challenges for professional counselors and church communities. Social isolation, loneliness, concerns about health, family, finances and employment have created extraordinary stress. Those stressors can exacerbate mental health concerns and lead to abuse of alcohol or drugs. Alcohol sales in the month of March alone jumped 55%. Millions of Americans are currently isolated, struggling with substance abuse, and they need help.

Professional counselors, Religious leaders or concerned family members can play a central role in helping those struggling with substance abuse seek help. However, effective interventions require particular knowledge and skills. This webinar will provide you with an understanding of the principles of “intervention”. It will allow you to feel more confident in developing and implementing a plan to help the struggling addict get the assistance they need.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Cultural Bias And Sensitivity In Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Cultural Beliefs And Recovery

Cultural Bias And Sensitivity In Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Cultural Beliefs And Recovery

One of the most important issues facing the addiction and mental health communities is how to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population. People of all backgrounds and cultures struggle with addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Out of Options – Working With The Most Challenging Teens

Out of Options – Working With The Most Challenging Teens

This web-based training provides evidence-informed treatment approaches and practical applications for those working with the most challenging adolescents. Ultimately it addresses how to break through and help a population that, historically, has been difficult to help. We will first address classic and popular approaches such as use of discipline and power to motivate behavior; debunk myths about what works and what doesn’t work to engage; address underlying issues and thought-patterns that lead to defiant and self-sabotaging behaviors; and, share evidence-informed concepts and practical applications to drive engagement when working with this population.

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Criminal Thinking, Substance Use Disorder, and Recovery. Evidence-Informed Practices and Panel Discussion

Criminal Thinking, Substance Use Disorder, and Recovery. Evidence-Informed Practices and Panel Discussion

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Building Emotional Grit And Resilience - A Practical Guide

Building Emotional Grit And Resilience - A Practical Guide

People are getting to the point where they might be feeling like they need to recharge the resilience and their grit skills.

You'll be doing that in your own self-reflection work, and then importantly, you'll walk away with some tools that are going to just help you recharge and enhance the skills you already have to reduce any gaps that might exist.

Education and Training

2023

Addressing Trauma in Family Members Impacted by Addiction – Strategies for Healing

Treating Opioid Dependance – One Person at a Time

Managing Personality Disordered Clients in a Co-Occurring Setting

2022

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Working with SUD, Moms, and Child Protection

Addiction Intervention for Co-occurring Clients: Practical Guidelines to Help Resistant Clients Get Care

2021

Spirituality, Science & Addiction Treatment – Faith as an Evidence Based Intervention for Substance Dependence

Medical Interventions for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders

Adversarial Voice Therapy

Client Engagement & Retention in Addiction Treatment: Best Practices

The Science and Art of Engaging Resistant and Traumatized Youth

Working with and Advocating for Mother’s with Substance Use Disorder

2020

Criminal Thinking, Mental Health, And Relapse Prevention Integrated Therapeutic Approaches

Hope In The Time Of COVID-19

Addition “Intervention” Skills During COVID-19

Cultural Bias And Sensitivity In Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Cultural Beliefs And Recovery

Out of Options – Working With The Most Challenging Teens

Criminal Thinking, Substance Use Disorder, And Recovery Evidence-Informed Practices And Panel Discussion

Building Emotional Grit And Resilience – A Practical Guide

Women, Treatment, and Recovery: The Importance of Gender Responsivity

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Addressing Trauma in Family Members Impacted by Addiction – Strategies for Healing

Addressing Trauma in Family Members Impacted by Addiction - Strategies for Healing

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Treating Opioid Dependance – One Person at a Time

Treating Opioid Dependance – One Person at a Time

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Managing Personality Disordered Clients in a Co-Occurring Setting

Managing Personality Disordered Clients in a Co-Occurring Setting

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly: Working with SUD, Moms, and Child Protection

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Working with SUD, Moms, and Child Protection

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Addiction Intervention for Co-occurring Clients: Practical Guidelines to Help Resistant Clients Get Care

Addiction Intervention for Co-occurring Clients: Practical Guidelines to Help Resistant Clients Get Care

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Spirituality, Science & Addiction Treatment – Faith as an Evidence Based Intervention for Substance Dependence

Spirituality, Science & Addiction Treatment – Faith as an Evidence Based Intervention for Substance Dependence

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Medical Interventions for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders

Medical Interventions for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Adversarial Voice Therapy

Adversarial Voice Therapy

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Client Engagement and Retention in Addiction Treatment: Best Practices

Client Engagement and Retention in Addiction Treatment: Best Practices

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching The Science and Art of Engaging Resistant and Traumatized Youth

The Science and Art of Engaging Resistant and Traumatized Youth

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Working with and Advocating for Mother’s with Substance Use Disorder

Working with and Advocating for Mother’s with Substance Use Disorder

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Criminal Thinking, Mental Health, And Relapse Prevention Integrated Therapeutic Approaches

Criminal Thinking, Mental Health, And Relapse Prevention Integrated Therapeutic Approaches

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Hope In The Time Of COVID-19

Hope In The Time Of COVID-19

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Addiction ‘Intervention’ Skills During COVID-19 Webinar

Addiction ‘Intervention’ Skills During COVID-19

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Cultural Bias And Sensitivity In Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Cultural Beliefs And Recovery

Cultural Bias And Sensitivity In Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Cultural Beliefs And Recovery

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Out of Options – Working With The Most Challenging Teens

Out of Options – Working With The Most Challenging Teens

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Criminal Thinking, Substance Use Disorder, and Recovery. Evidence-Informed Practices and Panel Discussion

Criminal Thinking, Substance Use Disorder, and Recovery. Evidence-Informed Practices and Panel Discussion

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Building Emotional Grit And Resilience - A Practical Guide

Building Emotional Grit And Resilience - A Practical Guide

Enter Your Details To Begin Watching Women’s Treatment and Recovery- The Importance of Gender Responsivity

Women’s Treatment and Recovery- The Importance of Gender Responsivity