Description

Interpreting for Addiction Services is a 7-hour online class designed to prepare experienced interpreters to provide services for patients and their families who are being seen for evaluation and treatment of an addiction. The recent increase in substance misuse in general, and fentanyl abuse in particular, has increased the frequency with which addiction is being discussed in venues from primary care to the ED, making this webshop relevant to interpreters working in any healthcare setting. Developed in collaboration with clinicians from both Public Health of Seattle-King County’s Pathways program and Harborview Medical Center’s Addiction Services, this class combines information about addiction and addiction services with practice with English vocabulary, conversion, sight translation, and actual dialogue interpreting.