Overview of Assessment for Addiction and Co-Occurring Disorders (4 Hours)
Objectives
- Describe essential attitudes for conducting effective assessments
- Select and use a comprehensive assessment process that is sensitive to age, gender, racial and ethnic cultural issues, and disabilities
- Identify considerations to assess validity/reliability and usefulness of various objective testing instruments
- Conducting comprehensive assessment interviews and collecting information from collateral sources.
- Differentiate between the function of screening and assessment
- Identify multiple sources of information for the assessment
- Identify types of questions for each area of the mental status exam
- Identify differences in assessment across special populations (women, homeless, criminal justice)
$12.00 for 90 days