Update on Intervention Models for Engaging Resistant Substance Abusers in Treatment

A 3-hour course which provides information about the various models and approaches to intervention services.

Goals/Objectives

By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will:

  1. give the student an historical perspective of substance abuse Interventions;
  2. provide updated research findings related to treatment seeking, costs of untreated substance abuse and treatment utilization;
  3. make the student familiar with the motivational theory behind Interventions;
  4. explain the different models of Intervention that have been reported on in journal articles;
  5. present the most current research on the different models of Intervention;
  6. 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.