A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals: Training Curriculum, First Edition

A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals: Training Curriculum provides both practitioners and administrators familiarity and knowledge about the interaction between LGBT issues and substance use disorders. 

The curriculum offers skill-building knowledge enhancing practical skills to offer sensitive, affirmative, culturally relevant, and effective treatment to LGBT individuals in substance use disorders treatment. 

Based on the 2001 Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) publication A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals, the curriculum was developed by Prairielands Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of New York City.

A downloadable version of the training curriculum is available at.

http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/pattc/lgbttrainingcurriculum

Publication Year: 2007

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