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• Assessment and Screening for Co-Occurrin…

  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
• Effective Use of Patient Placement Crite…

  Objectives:

  • Examine how patient placement instruments were developed to identify the most appropriate level of care
  • Explore different patient placement criteria guidelines including the LOCUS, LOCAT, and ASAM
  • Discuss the implications for what each patient placement insturment assesses.
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses of each instrument.
  • Practice using patient placement criteria using case studies

  $12.00 for 90 days
• Introduction to Assessment and Screening…

  Objectives

  • Differentiate between the function of screening and assessment.
  • 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 mood and addictive disorders.
  • Identify differences in assessment between age groups (adolescents, adults, elderly).
  • Identify considerations to assess validity/reliability and usefulness of various objective testing instruments.

  $12.00 for 90 days
• Substance Abuse Group Counseling TIP 41 …

  Objectives

  • Explore group counseling methods and skills
  • Identify the five models of group therapy currently used in substance abuse treatment and the three other types of groups that can be integrated into the five models
  • Differentiate between 12-step self-help groups and interpersonal process groups
  • Identify at least 10 advantages of group treatment
  • Identify the three modifications that need to be made to group treatment in order to improve its effectiveness in substance abuse settings
  • Discuss how the client's stage of readiness for change affects the types of groups he or she will be in
  • Describe the characteristics of each of the five group models used in substance abuse treatment
  • Effectively match clients with appropriate groups
  • Accurately assess client readiness for group primary placement considerations
  • Identify as six dimensions assess for the ASAM patient placement criteria
  • Identify the six levels of treatment identified by the ASAM patient placement criteria that
  • Identify the three other criteria we should be considered when determining the patient's appropriateness for group therapy
  • Identify the difference between culture, cultural knowledge, cultural awareness, and cultural competence
  • Understand the components of the diversity wheel
  • Identify strategies for handling issues that arise when group norms and cultural values conflict
  • Identify the six guidelines for clinicians on the evaluating bias and prejudice
  • Identify for techniques that can be helpful in providing substance abuse treatment to a culturally diverse groups
  • Identify six guidelines for preparing the group for a new member from a racial or ethnic minority
  • Discuss the benefits of fixed and revolving membership groups
  • Identify the most effective ways to prepare client for participation in groups is that
  • Be familiar with the recommended issues to discuss in pre-group interviews
  • Discuss ways for increasing retention in groups
  • Identify specific group tasks appropriate for each phase of the group
  • Discuss how to convert conflict and resistance in the positive energy that powers the group's
  • Explain how to deal with disruptive group members
  • Explain how to cool down runaway affect or turn a crisis into an opportunity
  • Identify six of the most common errors the group leaders make
  • Describe four types of training that are recommended for group therapists

  $60.00 for 90 days