Assessment and Screening
- 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