The overarching IBHC Project goal, over the four years of the grant, is to enhance workforce capacity among social workers for practice within integrated behavioral health, particularly within medically underserved areas and populations across Central and Western Massachusetts. Each year, the IBHC Project works with a range of healthcare providers to create eight one-hour virtual training modules on topics pertinent to integrated behavioral healthcare. Each module is publicly accessible, close-captioned, and translated into Spanish. Complimentary continuing education units are available for social workers and registered nurses.
Authors:
Tamara Cadet, PhD, MPH, LICSW, Simmons University
Julie Berrett-Abebe, PhD, LICSW, Fairfield University
Description: To successfully provide appropriate and effective care, social work providers and healthcare teams need resources to address a patient’s mental health and health-related social needs. The social determinants of health, including factors such as socioeconomic status, education, employment, and social network, can have a significant impact on an individual’s physical and mental health. This first module will provide an overview of social determinants of health, their importance and effects on health and mental health.
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To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Understanding Social Determinants of Health, Part I
Authors:
Tamara Cadet, PhD, MPH, LICSW, Simmons University
Julie Berrett-Abebe, PhD, LICSW, Fairfield University
Description: To successfully provide appropriate and effective care, social work providers and healthcare teams need resources to address a patient’s mental health and health-related social needs. The social determinants of health, including factors such as socioeconomic status, education, employment, and social network, can have a significant impact on an individual’s physical and mental health. This second module will focus on the application or use of social determinants of health in practice.
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To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: The Importance of Considering Social Determinants of Health in Social Work Practice, Part II
Authors:
Alana DiPesa, LCSW, Hartford Healthcare
Emily Lynch, LCSW, Hartford Healthcare
Description: This presentation will offer attendees logistical and clinical information regarding telehealth administration of behavioral health and utilizing telehealth within a behavioral health setting. This training will review various telehealth modules, clinical considerations within telehealth and how to maintain integration and interprofessional connections while providing telehealth.
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To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Telehealth in Integrated Behavioral Health
Authors:
Alisa Ainbinder, PhD, MSW
Adrien Conklin, BSN, RN
Description: This module focuses on walking through a few key terms and tools that help in the early phases of a program evaluation. Participants learn to break down jargon and de-mystify the evaluation process. Problem-solving around how to support organizations seeking to collect new or utilize existing data without many resources will briefly be explored. The module also explains the value an evaluator coming from a social work background brings to the interprofessional staff and how a relational, strength-based, and team-oriented approach to evaluation can advance the goals of integrated care.
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To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: How to Evaluate an Integrated Care Program: A Forest View
Authors:
Alexa Connell, PhD, UMass Memorial Health Care
Bill Behan, RN, BS, CCM, Harrington Health Systems
Description: This module provides learners with an overview of the culture of medicine, including how medical teams function, the different team roles and patterns of communication in medical settings. It also suggests concrete strategies for behavioral health providers to fit into a team based medical setting.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Stranger in a Strange Land: Medical Culture for Integrated Behavioral Health Clinicians
Authors: Julie Berrett-Abebe, Ph.D., LICSW, Westfield State University &
Jessica Holden, DNP, MSN, RN-BC, Westfield State University
Participants are provided with a foundational overview to the concepts underpinning the IBHC Project: providing high quality care for patients/families through interprofessional teams working together in integrated care settings.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: Introduction to Integrated, Team-Based Care in Health
Authors: Nora Padykula, Ph.D., LICSW, Westfield State University &
Joyce Thielen, Ph.D., RN, College of Our Our Lady of the Elms
This module reviews what is meant by Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Interprofessional Practice and applies these concepts to working with nursing and social work students. An IPE lesson plan, using Council on Social Work Education competencies, Nursing Essentials and Interprofessional Educational Collaborative competencies, is provided. Participants also receive specific suggestions for incorporating IPE into curricula, both in classroom and clinical settings.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: The Intersection of Nursing and Social Work & the Role of Interprofessional Education
This module will provide an example of an innovative interprofessional education program bringing together students from different disciplines as well as a clinical team from an academic medical center.
Authors: Kelli Fox, MSW, LCSW, CCS, LADC, University of New England
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: Module Post-Test: Interprofessional Education
Authors:
Robin White, PhD, Westfield State University
Jamie Rivera, PhD, Westfield State University
Description: This module focuses on the parts of the brain involved in addictive behaviors and information about how genetics influences addiction. An integrated case study of teen vaping is used as an example of the neurobiology & genetics of addiction.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: The Neurobiology & Genetics of Addiction: An Unfolding Case Study of Teen Vaping
Authors:
Nora Padykula, PhD, LICSW, Westfield State University
Stephen E. Lee, DBH, PA-C, Westfield State University
Description: In a groundbreaking partnership, the Baker-Polito Administration in the state of Massachusetts collaborated with various healthcare professional programs to develop competencies to address the opioid epidemic. This training module reviews the core competencies expected of Social Workers and Physician Assistants when working with clients living with a substance use disorder. The content of the training module is applied to a case example and concludes with a demonstration of how to provide the naloxone (Narcan) rescue.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Healthcare Competencies for Working with Substance Use Disorder: What Social Workers & Physician Assistants in MA Need to Know
Authors: Participants are provided with an introduction to opioid use disorders and the latest and best research on medication-assisted treatments (MATs). The materials in this module are intended for a wide range of professionals who care for clients in a variety of settings. The module will touch on how to integrate the use of these medications with other behavioral health services.
Authors: Maureen Clark, MSW, LICSW, Westfield State University &
Patrick LaFond, PA-C, MPAS, The Healthy Living Program
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: An Introduction to Best Practices in Providing Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorders
Author:
Julie Berrett-Abebe, PhD, LICSW, Westfield State University
Featuring a recorded training on SBIRT by Alex Heinz, LICSW, MPH, MA SBIRT TTA
Description: Evidence-based screening is an important part of integrated care. This training module provides information about screening tools that can be used for different behavioral health concerns. Additional information is provided about SBIRT, a highly researched model of care.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Evidence-based Screening in Integrated Behavioral Health Care
Authors:
Christy O’Brien, MSW, LICSW, Clinical & Support Options/ Friends of the Homeless
Bill Miller, BA, Clinical & Support Options/ Friends of the Homeless
Description: Homelessness work is significantly impacted by the intersection of trauma, mental health, substance abuse, medical issues, and housing resources. This module will explore this intersection as well as the model implemented by one community organization to provide integrated care in sheltering.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Integrated Treatment Services: Trauma Responsive Sheltering in Homelessness Work
Authors:
Corey Laskey, PharmD, BCPP, Western New England University
Jamie Walsh, MSW, LICSW, Westfield State University
Description: Pharmacology of medications used to treat bipolar disorder and psychotic disorders are presented. A case to illustrate the important of integrated team knowledge about medication is also part of the training module.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Psychopharmacology for Social Workers: Bipolar Disorder & Psychosis
Through a case analysis, participants will receive a basic overview of common medications used in the treatment of anxiety and depression, their side effects, and expectations for use.
Authors: Corey Laskey, PharmD, BCPP, Western New England University &
Maureen Clark, MSW, LICSW, Ph.D. candidate, Westfield State University
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: Psychopharmacology for Social Workers: Depression and Anxiety
Authors:
Maria del Mar Farina, PhD, LICSW, Westfield State University
Silvana M. Kirby, CMI Spanish, Berkshire AHEC
Description: This training module explains how to access interpreting services and the various modalities available, while clarifying expectations in the interpreter encounter to obtain the best possible communication among patient/provider and within the triadic encounter.
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Use of Interpreters in Mental Health Encounters
Through didactic presentation, professional interviews and case examples, this presentation will explore illness narratives and storytelling as an effective social work intervention for individuals and groups coping with illness, injury, and chronic and advanced disease. This presentation will also explore use of storytelling in clinical supervision.
Authors: Julie Berrett-Abebe, Ph.D., LICSW, Westfield State University,
Mary Susan Convery, MSW, LICSW, Massachusetts General Hospital &
Sarah Reed, Ph.D., MPH, MSW, University of California - Davis
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: An Introduction to Illness Narratives & Storytelling as a Therapeutic Intervention
Developed to educate health care professionals of all disciplines in culturally competent care of patients who identify as LGBTQIA+. The module will cover topics such as vocabulary, demographics, cultural needs and concerns, pronoun verbiage, and culturally appropriate interactions.
Authors: Kristin Visciotti, BSN, RN, Westfield State University,
Jamie Walsh, MSW, LICSW, Westfield State University &
Jessica Holden, DNP, MSN, RN-BC, Westfield State University
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: Culturally Sensitive Care for the LGBTQIA+ Population
Designed to educate health care professionals about policies, this module provides best practices and additional resources to care for LGBTQIA+ populations.
Authors: Jessica Holden, DNP, MSN, RN-BC, Westfield State University,
Rose Sullivan, Ph.D., MSW, Westfield State University, &
Kristin Visciotti, BSN, RN, Westfield State University
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: Caring for Transgender Populations in Health Settings: Policy Implications and Resources for Practice
Chronic pain is one of the most common and challenging presenting concerns in medical offices, particularly in primary care. Helping patients manage chronic pain is complicated by a limited understanding of the underlying causes of various pain conditions, limited available treatment options for pain and the challenges of addressing the adverse effects of opiate pain medications. Living with chronic pain negatively impacts a patient’s physical, social and emotional functioning and therefore a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of chronic pain is the new standard of care for these complex patients.
Authors: Alexa Connell, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School &
Paula Gardiner, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-Test: Treating Chronic Pain Without Medication
Authors:
Kate Forest, RYT, Self-Care Yoga and Mindful Living, LLC
Julie Berrett-Abebe, PhD, LICSW, Fairfield University
Description: This is the first in a five-part self-care train the trainer series. Through this train the trainer module, Kate, an advanced level yoga instructor, will explain how various stakeholders can use self-care principles with clients, supervisees, students, and in one’s personal life. Learn short simple self-care skills to help you navigate personal and professional situations as caretakers in these stressful times. This module will also provide context on the importance of self-care practice to reduce burnout as well as a framework & evidence for mindfulness.
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To earn 1 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Self-care - Training the Trainer
Author:
Kate Forest, RYT, Self-Care Yoga and Mindful Living, LLC
Description: This experiential training module is focused on the development of self-care, mindfulness and meditative movement skills. These 2 videos focus on the topics of kindness to self & others as well as the healing gifts of nature.
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To earn 1.5 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Module 2: Kindness to Self and Others & Module 3: The Healing Gifts of Nature
Author:
Kate Forest, RYT, Self-Care Yoga and Mindful Living, LLC
Description: This experiential training module is focused on development of self-care, mindfulness and meditative movement skills. These 2 videos focus on the topics of cultivating gratitude & empowering self & others.
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To earn 1.5 Social Work or Nursing CEU credit complete:
Post-test: Module 4: Cultivating Gratitude & Module 5: Empowering Self & Others
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