Psychosocial Supports

Online training modules that offer CME for providers on behavioral health services integration

This updated TIP includes the latest evidence on motivation-enhancing approaches and strategies. It describes how substance use disorder treatment providers can use these approaches and strategies to increase participation and retention in substance use disorder treatment.

Provides resources for practitioners who supervise peer workers.

Uses a self-guided web-based therapy program to help people reduce or stop use of drugs or alcohol as part of comprehensive treatment programs delivered by healthcare professionals. Teaches a variety of CBT skills related to patterns of substance use behaviors, thinking, and decision making; ways to recognize and manage cravings; and actions to avoid using substances.

Provides courses on how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders

Introduces the benefits of network therapy in addition to MAT.

Includes depression-related items from the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD) diagnostic tool for common mental disorders in a 9-item scale. Helps clinicians make a tentative diagnosis of depression and to monitor depression severity and response to treatment in the past 2 weeks.

Assesses quality of life across physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains.

Offers a 5-item scale designed to measure global cognitive judgments of one's life satisfaction (not a measure of either positive or negative affect). Prompts participants to indicate how much they agree or disagree with each of the 5 items using a 7-point scale that ranges from 7 (strongly agree) to 1 (strongly disagree).

Aims to promote awareness for the evidence base and promise of motivational interventions and shows how clinicians can influence motivation by developing a therapeutic relationship with the client. Describes different motivational interventions that can be used at all stages of change.