Assessment and Screening

CEU and certification training courses in the assessment and screening training domain.

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Objectives

    • Examine the effects of traumatic stress
    • Learn about normal brain development across the lifespan
    • Explore the neurobiology of PTSD
    • Highlight the changes in cognition and brain structure associated with PTSD
    • Identify crucial components to effective PTSD treatment
    • Examine the effects of pharmacotherapy on brain function
    • Learn about the function hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in the stress response systems, and abnormalities in the HPA axis in persons with PTSD
    • Identify specific neurochemicals implicated in the development of PTSD including chatecholamines, serotonin, amino acids (specifically GABA) and peptides.
    $42.00 for 90 days
  • 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
  • Objectives
    • Define the Substance Abuse Professional
    • Identify ethical and legal standards in counseling
    • Explore SAP regulations and compliance
    • Discuss procedures for drug and alcohol testing programs
    • Review the SAP DOT Regulations
    • Define the different terms from SAP to MRO
    $36.00 for 90 days
  • Objectives:
    • Discuss importance and purpose of rapport building.
    • Identify rapport-building methods and issues.
    • Explore the range of human emotions and feelings.
    • Discuss administering appraisal instruments and interpreting appraisal results in helping processes.
    • Identify validated screening instruments, including their purpose, application, and limitations.
    • Describe concepts of reliability and validity as they apply to screening instruments.
    • Discuss how to interpret the results of screening.
    • Identify basic concepts of toxicity screening options, limitations, and legal implications.
    • Explore toxicology reporting language and the meaning of toxicology reports.
    $12.00 for 90 days
  • Objectives
    • Define crisis
    • Explore general principles of crisis management
    • Identify methods for effectively screening for crisis
      • In therapy sessions
      • In the community
    • Identify the steps in crisis management
    • Identify risk factors for suicide
    $12.00 for 90 days

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