Assessment and Screening for Co-Occurring Addiction and Mental Illness (20 Hours)
Objectives:
- Differentiate between the function of screening and assessment
- Discuss administering appraisal instruments and interpreting appraisal results in helping processes
- Complete an accurate screening and assessment
- Identify multiple sources of information for the assessment
- Describe the purpose of the assessment
- Identify types of questions for each area of the mental status exam
- Describe the LOCUS and ASAM patient placement criteria
- Accurately make a placement of a client using information from the assessment and LOCUS and/or ASAM
- Identify characteristics of depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders
- Identify differences in assessment between age groups (adolescents, adults, elderly)
- Identify considerations to assess validity/reliability and usefulness of various objective testing instruments
$60.00 for 90 days