
Which Psychotherapies Are Available? (Addiction Treatment Course)
This lesson from Yale's Addiction Treatment: Clinical Skills for Healthcare Providers course surveys the psychotherapies used to treat substance use disorders. Yale instructors walk through motivational enhancement therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, twelve-step facilitation, contingency management, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention, explaining the goals and techniques behind each. The lesson covers when these approaches are used alone versus combined with medication, and how treatment should be matched to a patient's readiness and circumstances. Built around a case performed by actors, the course aims to give clinicians practical footing for discussing treatment options with patients living with addiction. At thirteen minutes, this segment is narrow and clinical in focus, useful primarily as a concise overview of the therapeutic toolkit rather than a deep dive into any single method.