Course Description: This course will take behavioral health clinicians through seven modules providing psychoeducation, evidence-based treatment modalities, screening tools, and evidence-based prevention tools and strategies. The modules will also explore how the brain is impacted by both substance misuse and behavioral addictions and provide an understanding of how the power of advanced technology, marketing, advertising, and persuasive design coupled with commercial interests have made an impact on our lives in both positive and negative ways. Behavioral health clinicians will learn to discuss the online world by incorporating language in media literacy and the importance of a healthy media diet, and be left with a feeling of hope found in research, evidence-based practices, and community partnerships.

Modality: This is an online self-paced training located at https://bhs.unc.edu

 

Time: 8 hours total

Target Audience: This intermediate level training is behavioral health clinicians seeking ways to incorporate psychoeducation, screening, and treatment modalities into their work in problematic behaviors in gambling, gaming, and digital media.

Module 1: The Gambling Landscape and Youth Behaviors (approx. 1.5 hours)

Instructor: Alison Wood

Module 2: Prevention Science (approx. 1 hour)

Instructor: Alison Wood

Module 3: Considerations in Persuasive Design and Impact on Human Behavior (approx. 1 hour)

Instructor: Mike Robinson, Ph.D

Module 4: The Fundamentals of Digital Media Overuse & Treatment

(approx. 30 min)

Instructor: Tracy Markle, MA, LPC

Module 5: Treatment Considerations in Digital Media Overuse and Gambling in Games (approx. 30 min)

Instructor: Stephanie Diez-Morel, Ph.D., LCSW, MCAP, IGDC, BACC

Module 6: Wanna Bet? Gambling Behaviors Among Youth and Treatment Implications (approx. 1 hour)

Instructor: Gregory A. Krausz, MA, CAADC, LPC

Module 7: Sports Betting from the Front Line (approx. 1 hour)

Instructors: Jody Bechtold LCSW, ICGC-II, BACC, IGDC, CGT and Rob Bumbaco LSW, CMC

Module 8: Review and Assessment (approx. 1.5 hours)

In this module, you will complete a series of short multiple-choice review activities designed to reinforce key concepts introduced in the previous modules. Once you've finished reviewing, you will be tested on material from all seven Adolescent Gaming and Gambling modules.

Continuing Education:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6642. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Successfully completing the course qualifies for up to 8 contact hours. 

 

The completion of this course has been approved by the North Carolina Specialist Addiction Professional Practice Board for up to 8 credit hours.

 

UNC School of Social Work, Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building
325 Pittsboro St. Chapel Hill, NC 27599

 

For questions, please email us at bhs-support@unc.edu

or call us at 919-843-6083