Intermediate
Dual Diagnosis Treatment Planning
This course teaches integrated assessment and evidence-based treatment planning for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, emphasizing motivational interviewing, harm reduction, culturally safe care for Indigenous and diverse populations, risk management, and collaborative care coordination. Designed for Canadian counsellors and healthcare professionals, participants leave able to develop measurable, client-centred dual diagnosis plans and implement outcome tracking in clinical settings.
Lifetime accessCertificate of completion16 lessonsMobile & desktop
Harm ReductionMotivational InterviewingCounselling SkillsCultural CompetencyConcurrent DisordersIndigenous CommunitiesAssessment & ScreeningCase Management
$80CAD
8 CEU hrs
What you'll learn
Conduct integrated, culturally safe assessments for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders using validated tools and staging frameworks
Design measurable, client-centred dual diagnosis treatment plans that integrate motivational interviewing, harm reduction and evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacological interventions
Implement measurement-based outcome tracking, risk management, and collaborative care coordination in Canadian clinical settings while applying legal, ethical and culturally safe practices
Requirements
- Current clinical role in counselling, nursing, medicine, social work or allied health; or supervisor endorsement to enroll
- Foundational knowledge of mental health and substance use concepts (or completion of an introductory dual-diagnosis/mental-health course)
Who this course is for
- Canadian counsellors, social workers, nurses, physicians and allied health professionals who provide care to clients with concurrent disorders
