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    MH#1: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
    Mental Health Bulletin #1 - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) was developed to treat post-traumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
    MH#2: Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT)
    Mental Health Bulletin #2 - Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) requires that mental health and substance abuse treatment be delivered concurrently by a team of cross-trained clinicians within the same program.
    MH#3: Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR)
    Mental Health Bulletin #3 - The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that approximately 6% of the U.S. population has severe mental illness (SMI). For North Carolina, that percentage translates to approximately 200,000 people who suffer from severe psychiatric disorders.
    MH#4: Family Psychoeducation
    Mental Health Bulletin #4 - Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) often rely on family members for the majority of their needed support, and it is estimated that 35-60% of adults with SMI live with family members.
    SA#1: Contingency Management (CM)
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #1 - Contingency management (CM) is a motivational incentive intervention in which clients with substance use disorders receive small rewards for attending treatment, taking prescribed medication, providing negative urine samples, or complying with other defined treatment-related goals.
    SA#2: Strengthening Families Program (SFP)
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #2 - The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a parenting and family strengthening program for high risk families. It combines science-based (1) parenting-skill training, (2) child life-skill building, and (3) family lifeskill education into a program that improves the child's social/life skills and family functioning and protects the children from the long-term risks of drug abuse.
    SA#3: Seeking Safety
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #3 - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may result from exposure and sometimes multiple exposures to highly traumatic events such as child abuse, accidents, violent personal assaults, military combat, or natural or human caused disasters.
    SA#4: Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #4 - Matrix was developed in the 1980s by researchers at the University of Southern California and clinicians at the Matrix Institute on Addictions who found that clients addicted to stimulants were challenging the existing treatment system.
    SA#5: The Seven Challenges
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #5 - The Seven Challenges program was developed in the early 1990s by Dr. Robert Schwebel who recognized the lack of age appropriate substance abuse treatment models for adolescents.
    Developing Effective, High-Quality Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: A Guide for Local Management Entities
    by Beth Melcher, Ph.D. This manual seeks to clarify and provide guidance to LMEs on how to successfully engage in the service development role. It promotes the implementation of evidence-based and best practice services and supports.
    National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
    NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. SAMHSA has developed this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement programs and practices in their communities.

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    Free Online Courses
    The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) offers free training and resources on a variety of topics, including cognitive processing therapy and trauma-focused cognitive based therapy (TF-CBT) (http://tfcbt.musc.edu/). Developed by Patricia Resick, Ph.D., in 1991, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a manualized cognitive based therapy offered in 12 sessions. Clients complete worksheets and homework assignments to gain further understanding and insight about past traumatic events. In addition to the MUSC website, more detail about CPT can be found here. Developed in the early 1980s by Cohen, Deblinger, and associates, TF-CBT is a psychosocial treatment model designed to treat posttraumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. The treatment model is designed to be delivered by trained therapists in 12-16 sessions of individual and parent-child therapy. Click here for more information.


    September 9th, 2009
    SA#2: Strengthening Families Program (SFP)

    sa-sfpThe Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a parenting and family strengthening program for high risk families. It combines science-based (1) parenting-skill training, (2) child life-skill building, and  (3) family lifeskill education into a program that improves the child’s social/life skills and family functioning and protects the children from the long-term risks of drug abuse.

    A nationally recognized program, SFP has been shown effective by numerous independent research studies and has been implemented worldwide. It was developed in the late 1980s by Karol Kumpfer, Ph.D. through a research grant funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. There are now several versions of the original program that accommodate the needs of different age groups and at risk populations.

      SA2 - Strengthening Families Program (SFP) (62.4 KiB)

    The Strengthening Families Program
    (SFP) is a parenting and family
    strengthening program for high risk
    families. It combines science-based
    (1) parenting-skill training, (2) child
    life-skill building, and (3) family lifeskill
    education into a program that
    improves the child’s social/life skills
    and family functioning and protects
    the children from the long-term risks
    of drug abuse.
    A nationally recognized program, SFP
    has been shown effective by
    numerous independent research
    studies and has
    been implemented
    worldwide. It was
    developed in the
    late 1980s by
    Karol Kumpfer,
    Ph.D. through a
    research grant
    funded by the
    National Institute
    on Drug Abuse.
    There are now
    several versions of
    the original
    program that
    accommodate the
    needs of different age groups and atrisk
    populations.
    Posted in SA EBP
    Funded wholly or in part by the federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant Fund (CFDA #93.959) as a project of the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities & Substance Abuse Services.