COE Advocacy or Enabling

March 22, 2023

The activity will allow the COE teams to better understand the dynamics of family relationships when one person has a substance use disorder. It will provide the team best practices to help the family understand the addiction and provide the necessary support.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Review of Objectives
  3. Family Dynamics and Roles
    1. Family Dynamics
      1. Enabling
      2. Importance of the use of words
      3. Drug misuse in families
      4. Functional and Dysfunctional
    2. Roles
      1.  Person with Substance Use Disorder
      2. Dependent
      3. Caretaker
      4. Hero
      5. Scapegoat
      6. Clown
      7. Lost Child
  4. Important Considerations in Serving Families
    1. Harm Reduction Strategies
    2. Helping Families Understand Addiction and the Right Things to do
  5. Role of Peer Support
  6. The Use of Storytelling
  7. The Peer’s Role with Family
    1. Collaboration 
    2. Recovery Plans
    3. Voice and Choice
    4. Principles of Recovery Management
    5. Tools
    6. Motivational Interviewing
      1. 5 principles
      2. 4 Processes
      3. Key Concepts
  8. Questions/ Discussion

Target Audience

Nurse

Physician

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

  • Identify characteristics of “Functional” and “Dysfunctional” behavior and how homeostasis is disrupted when substance use misuse occurs in the family
  • Describe the continuum of healthy and unhealthy behavior with families impacted by substance use disorder.
  • Identify the roles often assumed within families impacted by substance use disorder.
  • Discuss how families can make choices to discuss and address substance misuse as part of the recovery process.

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/22/2023
Course expires: 
06/30/2023
Event starts: 
03/22/2023 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
03/22/2023 - 1:30pm EDT
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The activity will allow the COE teams to better understand the dynamics of family relationships when one person has a substance use disorder. It will provide the team best practices to help the family understand the addiction and provide the necessary support.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Review of Objectives
  3. Family Dynamics and Roles
    1. Family Dynamics
      1. Enabling
      2. Importance of the use of words
      3. Drug misuse in families
      4. Functional and Dysfunctional
    2. Roles
      1.  Person with Substance Use Disorder
      2. Dependent
      3. Caretaker
      4. Hero
      5. Scapegoat
      6. Clown
      7. Lost Child
  4. Important Considerations in Serving Families
    1. Harm Reduction Strategies
    2. Helping Families Understand Addiction and the Right Things to do
  5. Role of Peer Support
  6. The Use of Storytelling
  7. The Peer’s Role with Family
    1. Collaboration 
    2. Recovery Plans
    3. Voice and Choice
    4. Principles of Recovery Management
    5. Tools
    6. Motivational Interviewing
      1. 5 principles
      2. 4 Processes
      3. Key Concepts
  8. Questions/ Discussion
Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Bill Stauffer

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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