This online course will provide learners with the opportunity to increase their knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide a wholistic, client-centred, biopsychosocial approach to screen, engage, and treat commercial tobacco use among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis populations. The learner will also be able to apply these skills, develop treatment in collaboration with clients, and refer as necessary.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the history of tobacco use among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis populations.
- Describe the impact of commercial tobacco use among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis populations.
- Identify ways to adapt screening and assessment tools for commercial tobacco use for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis clients.
- Provide initial and ongoing assessments with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis clients within a social determinants of health framework.
- Develop a client-driven wholistic treatment plan within a social determinants of health framework.
- Adapt psychosocial interventions for commercial tobacco cessation and/or reduction.
- Adapt pharmacological interventions for commercial tobacco cessation and/or reduction.
Accreditation
- The College of Family Physicians of Canada
- Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation
- Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
