| Goals/Objectives
By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will:
- give the student an historical perspective of substance abuse
Interventions;
- provide updated research findings related to treatment seeking,
costs of untreated substance abuse and treatment utilization;
- make the student familiar with the motivational theory behind
Interventions;
- explain the different models of Intervention that have been
reported on in journal articles;
- present the most current research on the different models of
Intervention;
- present internet addresses for a number of current practitioners
doing interventions.
Your Course Instructor:
Jim Garrett
James
Garrett, CSW, Vice President of Linking Human Systems™, developer of
the ARISE method of Intervention, has done interventions for more than 20
years. He has extensive clinical experience in substance abuse as well as
program and administrative experience at both the state and agency levels.
He has served as trainer and consult for many years, and was a
Co-Investigator on a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant, “Levels
of Intervention for Engaging Cocaine Abusers”. Mr. Garrett has co-authored
more than 7 journal articles dealing with Intervention models and
Intervention outcomes. He maintains a private practice specializing in
Interventions in Albany,
New York
in addition to his training and consulting work with Linking Human Systems.
Dr. Judith Landau
Dr. Judith Landau, child and family psychiatrist, President of
Linking Human Systems™
, is Visiting Professor at
National Jewish Medical and
Research Center in Denver,
CO. She
was Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, and Director of the Family
Therapy Training Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Prior to that she was a senior trainer in the Family Therapy Training Center
of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. A Fulbright Scholar, she has
taught in over 60 countries and consulted to governments and agencies on 5
continents. She was Principal Investigator on a National Institute on Drug
Abuse grant “Levels of Intervention for Engaging Cocaine Abusers.” She is
an approved supervisor and fellow of AAMFT and has served on 10 editorial
boards, including Family Process and Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. |