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Social Worker Addiction Training

Social Worker Addiction Training
from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country

What will I learn?

This course equips social workers with practical tools to evaluate opioid and polysubstance use, use motivational interviewing techniques, and provide trauma-informed, harm reduction-focused care. You will learn to develop overdose prevention strategies, manage withdrawal risks, coordinate medication-assisted treatment, create safety plans, and make effective referrals, while confidently handling ethics, cultural considerations, documentation, and community resources.

Elevify advantages

Develop skills

  • Advanced motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy tools for promoting addiction recovery.
  • Harm reduction and overdose response planning to develop quick, practical safety measures with clients.
  • Medication-assisted treatment coordination skills for buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone support.
  • Rapid clinical assessment techniques to screen, document, and prioritise opioid and polysubstance risks.
  • Ethical, trauma-informed practices to minimise stigma and safeguard client rights.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

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