Detoxification
Objectives
- Explore multicultural and pluralistic trends; social or cultural issues affecting individuals, couples and families
- Understand the history of detoxification services
- Identify the guiding principles of detoxification and substance abuse treatment
- Identify challenges to providing effective detoxification
- Identify the role of various settings in the delivery of detoxification services
- The value weight and address psychosocial and biomedical issues during detoxification
- Implement strategies for engaging in retaining patients in detoxification
- Identify special considerations for patients needing detoxification including cultural diversity, single parents with small children, and financial barriers
- Identify clinician characteristics most important to the therapeutic alliance
- Understand the proper use of each psychosocial and biomedical screening and assessment instrument
- Identify the clinical symptoms of intoxication and withdrawal from the most common substances
- Identify medical complications of overdose or withdrawal from the most common substances
- Define social detoxification
- Identify the basic steps for management of delirium and seizures during alcohol withdrawal
- Identify the different methods used for detoxification from each of the different most commonly used substances
- Identify special populations, such as pregnant women, and special issues they may face during detoxification
- Identify the general principles of care for patients with co-occurring medical conditions
- Identify the general principles of care for patients with co-occurring psychiatric conditions
