This online course will provide learners with the opportunity to increase their knowledge about modifiable risk factors (i.e. alcohol use, physical inactivity, stress, poor sleep and poor nutrition) and its relationship to tobacco dependence, opportunities for screening, assessment and treatment. Learners should also be able to apply these skills and approaches to individuals who use tobacco to address multiple modifiable risk factors as a part of treatment for tobacco use disorder.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the relationship between tobacco use disorder and other modifiable risk factors.
- Describe strategies for screening and assessing tobacco use and other modifiable risks.
- Select tailored screening and assessment tools for use with clients who use tobacco and have other modifiable risk factors.
- Explain strategies for engaging clients who use tobacco and have other modifiable risk factors.
- Provide client-centred evidence informed psychosocial interventions for clients who use tobacco and have other modifiable risk factors.
- Provide client centred evidence informed pharmacological interventions for clients who use tobacco and have other modifiable risk factors.
- Identify barriers and enablers to an integrated approach to addressing multiple modifiable risk factors.
Accreditation
- The College of Family Physicians of Canada
- Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation
- Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
