Bringing SBIRT into the Community: An Evaluation of a Continuing Education Training for Social Workers

Abstract

Continuing education (CE) is critical to effective social work practice. There are limited reports of evaluations of CE training in general and Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in particular. One school of social work offered 3 annual, 1-day CE opportunities focusing on different aspects of SBIRT for practicing social workers. Data on participants’ knowledge, attitude, skills, self-efficacy, and behavioral intent were collected using pretest and posttest. This article presents the findings from the evaluation of the SBIRT CE program.

KEYWORDS:

• continuing education
• evaluation
• motivational interviewing
• SBIRT
• self efficacy
• SUD

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This manuscript has not been published elsewhere and has not been submitted to any other publication.

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Funding

This study described herein was a component of the Launching SBIRT into the Community: A Multidisciplinary Approach Training at The Catholic University of America (No. 1U79TI025411), a grant project funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration through a program titled SBIRT Training (RFA: TI-13-002).