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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)
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Objectives
Define the purpose of documentation
Examine the types of information that should be documented
Explore meaningful ways to organize charts
Identify the impact HIPAA has on record keeping
Identify the types of information insurers often require in charts
Explore ethical issues that arise with documentation when treating families, conducting groups, working in agencies, working with involuntary clients
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Objectives:
Review opiates as a depressant and analgesic
Explore various types of opiates, methods of administration
Review the short and long term effects of opiates
Identify symptoms of opiate withdrawal and intoxication
Discuss factors that make it so easy to overdose on opiates
Review the use of Naloxone
Review the different types of benzodiazepines and their half life
Identify symptoms of benzodiazepine intoxication and withdrawal (including protracted withdrawal)
Review the short and long term effects of benzodiazapine use
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Objective
Define sex and pornography addiction
Compare and contrast sex addiction with drug addiciton
Identify tools that can assist sex addicts
Explore current protocols for early recovery of the sex addict
Identify issues that may impact the relationship and ways to engage the significant other in the recovery process
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Objectives:
Define the
PACER model
Explore how
PACER dimensions interact
Examine the transdiagnostic assessment process
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Objectives:
Learn what interventions are
Identify who does and intervention
Explore reasons for interventions
Review the general steps in the intervention process
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Objectives
Explain why pain management matters.
Name various treatment team members.
List drug and non-drug treatment options.
Learn the three classes of analgesics.
Name goals of pain therapy.
Develop skills for communicating with a medical practitioner about pain.
Describe pain using numerical, verbal and visual scales.
Discuss concerns for use of opioid medication for pain treatment.
Discuss and describe the "Opioid Contract".
List the five classes of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Identify prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the U.S.
Compare and contrast Injection and Infusion therapies.
Identify benefits and drawbacks of various treatments.
Learn four stress management techniques.
Classify methods of pain management that can be completed by the client on their own.
Learn about promising new treatment options.
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Objectives
Identify the eight steps of psychiatric management for persons with panic disorder
Explain how to select the most appropriate treatment settings
Summarize the psychopharmacological recommendations for treating panic disorder
Summarize the length of treatment and the tapering process
Identify the types of psychoeducation we should be provided to patients with panic disorder
Identify five ways to increase treatment compliance
Summarize psychosocial interventions for panic disorder
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different treatment modalities
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Objectives:
Identify the symptoms of panic
Examine the function of panic
Explore ways panic can become dysfunctional
Identify the impact of panic on the person and recovery
Identify interventions that are commonly used to address panic and prevent relapse
Help for family members or significant others in dealing with a person with this issue
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Objectives:
The student will be able to identify:
Continuum of drug use
Varying courses
Effects of chronic co-occurring disorders on
Patients
Significant Others
Community
Relationship between infectious diseases and addiction
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