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Digital Seminar

3-Hour HIV/AIDS, Sexual Health, and Substance Use: Key Clinical Strategies for Mental Health Professionals

Speaker:
Lisa Connors, PhD, LCPC, LPC, NCC
Duration:
3.5 Hours
Language:
Presented in EN
Copyright:
Dec 01, 2025
Product Code:
POS150466
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar
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Description

  • Up to date HIV/AIDS terminology to communicate with clarity and credibility
  • Normalize conversations about sex and sexual health in mental health care
  • Drive HIV prevention and care efforts within your agency or organization

 

Breaking the Silence: Empowering Clinicians to Address HIV, Sexual Health & Substance Use

Sex, HIV risk, and substance use remain some of the most challenging topics for mental health professionals to navigate, yet they’re often at the core of clients’ lived experiences.

This essential CE training equips clinicians to initiate these conversations with empathy and confidence. Learn how to reduce stigma and shame while addressing the complex intersections of HIV, sexual behavior, and substance use in a therapeutic setting. Gain practical tools including motivational interviewing, sexual history-taking, and the SBIRT model to support clients in navigating risk, ambivalence, and behavior change.

Featuring Lisa Connors, PhD, LCPC, LPC, NCC, this training offers real-world strategies and interactive case-based learning to prepare you for today’s most pressing clinical realities.

You’ll explore the intersection of HIV, STIs, and substance use in diverse populations, and learn how a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach can transform treatment planning and client engagement.

Leave prepared to have honest conversations with clarity, compassion, and confidence.

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Canada Credit - CE Information Coming Soon

Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.

CEs may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

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Objectives

  1. Determine how to address infectious diseases and mental health nuances from a public health approach.
  2. Utilize clinical strategies and evidence-based screenings to identify sexual risk among mental health clients.
  3. Examine the effectiveness and efficacy of integrating HIV and mental health in clinical settings.
  4. Choose appropriate interventions and tools to support mental health clients at risk of being impacted and clients living with the comorbidities of HIV and mental health.

Outline

The State of Emergency of HIV

  • Test your knowledge
  • Address the statistical data of HIV
  • Where does prevention, testing, and treatment fall into it?
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Let’s Start in the Middle: Connecting the Dots

  • What’s happening with our clients: Addressing syndemics of HIV and mental health
  • The powerful role of social determinants
  • What harm reduction really looks like in practice
  • Real life case scenarios
    • Maleek is a 38-year-old male with a history of suicidal ideation and substance use issues
    • Sheila is a 24-year-old woman with a history of inconsistent condom use
    • Mandy is a 15-year-old foster care child with multiple sexual partners
    • Chris is a 40-year-old male living with HIV

Explore HIV stigma

  • Address systemic, personal oppression, and institutional betrayal
  • Dismantle the 4s of HIV and mental health
  • Review the elephant in the room and changing systems
  • Call to accountability: What to do as mental health professionals

Best Practices: Healing, Reconciliation, Resiliency, and Hope

  • Integrate approaches
    • Spirituality
    • Narrative model
  • Bring faith, religion, and spirituality into the room
  • Use culture as a strength marker
  • New innovations for us
  • Collaboration among recovery experts

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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