Topic: assessment
Addiction And: ASPD
With a little leverage and some understanding of effective therapeutic technique, you can increase the chances of successful outcomes with these clients.
Topics: addicted offenders, alcoholism, assessment, client types and needs, co-occurring disorders, counseling skills, personality disorders
Different Levels of Treatment: Who Gets What
For the most part, if you are hoping that insurance, Medicare or Medicaid, or another third-party payor will help with–or pick up entirely–the costs of treatment, you’ll be running into ASAM criteria that control who gets what kind of treatment.
Topics: ASAM, assessment, diagnosis, inpatient treatment, long term treatment, outpatient treatment, types of treatment
Complex Trauma: A Practical Approach
We can’t always predict which problem will require attention first — or indeed, when opening a door in therapy will introduce a whole new set of emotional needs and issues.
Topics: assessment, client types and needs, co-occurring disorders, compulsive behavior, therapeutic models, therapies and tools, trauma, treatment planning
Intervention at the ER? Can it Work?
If we could reach them now, the process might well be interrupted. Preventing a host of more serious problems — some of them fatal to other people, or the user himself.
Topics: assessment, health care, intervention, physicians, SBIRT, signs and symptoms
Helping Memory-Impaired Clients
Rapid severe weight loss combined with heavy drinking is a formula for lasting difficulties.
Topics: addiction and the brain, assessment, barriers to recovery, consequences, counseling skills
Why Don’t Physicians Refer People for Treatment?
A patient said he’d visited a local family clinic three times in the past year for drinking-related problems and the physician never once mentioned that he needed treatment.
Topics: assessment, clinical management, diagnosis, health care, marketing, physicians, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Rural Areas and ASAM Criteria
We keep running into situations where ASAM criteria don’t seem to apply.
Topics: ASAM, assessment, case management, clinical management, systems
