Responding to Positive SUD Screens in Primary Care: SBIRT-Aligned Strategies, Motivational Interviewing, and Readiness for Change

This workshop supports EPT practices in responding effectively when a substance use disorder (SUD) screen is positive. Using an SBIRT-aligned (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) framework, participants will review the stages of change, practice core motivational interviewing skills, and explore key drivers of behavior change in health care settings. The session emphasizes time-limited, empathic, patient-centered conversations that reduce resistance, elicit change talk, and support patient autonomy and readiness for next steps in alignment with EPT SUD deliverables, including brief intervention, follow-up, or referral.

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This course meets the qualifications for 1.0 contact hour of continuing education credit for nurses as required by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #18090. You must attend the full session in order to qualify for contact hours. Course completion certificates will be awarded upon completion of course evaluations. Documentation must be retained by the Participant for a period of four years after the conclusion of this program.

The UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. The UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. This course meets the qualifications for 1.0 hour of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #1032866. Any activities within the program that do not have instructional time are not offered for continuing education credit. Course completion certificates will be awarded upon completion of course evaluations. Documentation must be retained by the Participant for a period of four years after the conclusion of this program.

Please note: Because this course is only one hour long, partial credit cannot be granted.

 

GRIEVANCES:

For additional questions, addressing grievances, or any requests around special accommodations, please contact: Rachel Kochhar – rkochhar@pophealthlc.org