Courses
Monitor Training Workshop
Substance abuse and dependence in employees causes problems for their families, their employers and fellow workers. Learn how to turn a costly, dangerous problem into a win-win solution. The very highest rates of recovery from addictive disorders are achieved by safety-sensitive personnel following a contingency management approach: the Carrot and the Stick. In this session you will learn about effective workplace policies, intervention and assessment, treatment planning and return to work – especially for safety-sensitive workers. The bottom line will be – resolution to the problem.
Who Should Attend:
- Occupational health nurses and physicians
- Substance Abuse Professionals
- Employee and Family Assistance Personnel
- Health Insurers
- Human Resource and Occupational Health and Safety Personnel
Learning Objectives
By the end of this 2-day workshop the learner will be able to:
- Describe essential components of workplace drug and alcohol policies
- List common red flags for employees with addictive disorders
- Discuss drug testing, its limitations and limited uses
- List essential components of biopsychosocial assessment and report
- Outline the salient points in privacy, confidentiality, reporting to employers for health professionals
- Describe stages of addictive disorders and stages of recovery
- Compare and contrast treatment modalities for addictive disorders
- Demonstrate techniques to deal with the patient/client demonstrating classical pre-relapse attitudes and behaviours
An Update in Disability Management
In this session we will review some basic concepts and techniques for effective disability management and present evidence on recent developments in the field.
Learning Points
- Warning flags for possible complex disability cases that could go off the rails
- Confidentiality and doctors’ certificates: Just what does the workplace “need to know”
- Drug testing in Canada: shifting sands
- Evidence based treatment for fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndromes
- Dealing with stress: epidemic or scam
- Contingency return to work agreements: The Carrot and The Stick
- Occupational psychiatry: incorporate psychiatric care into disability management
- Medical Marijuana: the facts and the fantasies
- Health Professionals, liability and safety-sensitive employees
- Cognitive behavioural therapy: what it can and cannot do
- Occupational addiction medicine – 202: an update
Who Should Attend
Occupational Health physicians, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists
Occupational therapists
Disability Management Professionals
Health Insurers
Human Resources and Occupational Health and Safety Personnel
Workplace Training for Substance Use
or Attendance Management
A series of 1-2 hr. portable sessions geared to Human Resources, Occupational Health and Labour Relations, or to Supervisors and Union Representatives.
Topics and Learner Objectives
- Early signs and symptoms of addiction or other invisible disabilities in the workplace
- Employers’ rights and responsibilities
- Safety Sensitive positions
- Arbitration Rulings
- WCB expectations
- Conducting management interviews
- Intervention interviewing
- Coordinating benefits during disability
- Assessment and Treatment
- Early return to work
- Monitoring
Smoking Cessation
Lunch hour or evening presentations to health professionals or smokers
Topics and Learner Objectives
- Basics of addiction
- Medical consequences of smoking
- Review of effective cessation techniques
- Motivational enhancement techniques
- Building a cessation program
- Relapse prevention
Stress, Burnout, Depression, Workaholism
For disability insurers, organizations, employee and family assistance counsellors, professional assistance programs
Topics and Learner Objectives
- Causes of workplace stress
- Signs and symptoms
- Early intervention
- Review of the science: What Works
- Recovery and relapse prevention
- Return to work strategy
- Contingency management
Chronic Pain
One-hour to full-day workshops on assessment and treatment of such syndromes as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, chronic low back pain and headache. Delivered to physicians, health insurers, occupational health nurses, disability management personnel.
Topics and Learner Objectives
- Neurobiology of chronic pain
- Review of the literature: What works and what doesn’t
- Root causes
- Early signs and symptoms
- Effective intervention and treatment
- Distinction and treatment of chronic pain v. opioid dependence
- Early return to work strategies
- Contingency management
Substance Use Disorders
Seminars, workshops and lectures for health professionals, disability management and human resources personnel, employee and family assistance workers, labour and management and disability insurers. From one hour to two days.
Topics and Learner Objectives
- Definitions: Use – Abuse – Dependence
- Categories of addictive drugs
- Employers, Unions, and Employees rights and responsibilities
- Early signs and symptoms
- Neurobiology
- Safety sensitive positions
- Effective intervention
- Treatment Outcomes: review of the evidence
- Role of assessment
- Post-Treatment return to work
- Monitoring
- Co-morbidity and dual diagnosis
- Prescription drugs and the workplace
- Marijuana
Other Addictive or Compulsive Disorders
Often incorporated into other addictions presentations:
- Compulsive and pathological gambling
- Sexual compulsive disorders
- Eating disorders
- Workaholism
- Shopping, spending
- Compulsive exercise
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