ASAM Integration:
Six Dimensional Assessment through the Continuum
Enhanced Professional Learning Series

DESCRIPTION

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria, 3rd Edition, is the most widely used and comprehensive set of guidelines for assessment, placement, treatment planning, continued service, and transfer/discharge of clients with substance use and co-occurring disorders.  The Criteria utilizes six dimensions to form a broad assessment, which in turn provides information for service and treatment planning across all levels of care.

This online Enhanced Professional Learning (EPL) interactive series will provide collaborative training and real-time practice opportunities essential to the development and/or refinement of applying the Criteria in a clinical setting. Emphasis is placed on applying Criteria for in-depth assessment, proper placement, service and treatment planning, continued service and transfer/discharge of clients. 

WHEN

Weekly sessions offered on the same day and start time between August 10-September 21, 2021. Day and time will depend on your location. Click REGISTER NOW below to view the full schedule for your specific location. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the ASAM-I Enhanced Professional Learning Series, participants will be able to:

• Classify each of the five broad ASAM Levels of Care that reflect a Continuum of Care
• Explore, through participation in group discussions and activities, how to apply the six Dimensional Assessment for placement into a level of care
• Explain the ASAM 0-4 Risk Rating and overall Severity Rating for proper level of care recommendations
• Formulate how to develop behavioral focused treatment goals based on Six Dimensional Assessment properly using Six Dimensional Assessment results
• Recognize and discuss the three concepts of Continued Service, Transfer and Discharge Criteria

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Behavioral health, substance use disorders, and recovery service providers located in the Pacific Southwest ATTC region (HHS Region 9)
• Baseline knowledge and current utilization of the Criteria in clinical practice

PARTICIPANT COMMITMENT & EXPECTATIONS

• Access to the book, The ASAM Criteria: Treatment Criteria for Addictive, Substance-Related, and Co-Occurring Conditions (American Sociality of Addiction Medicine, Third Edition, 2013)
• Attend a 1-hour online Orientation
• Commit to 6-weeks of live online training for 1.5 hours weekly 
• Complete weekly self-study learning activities
• Access to appropriate technology for using videoconferencing platform (internet connection, webcam, laptop/tablet, speakers, and microphone)
• Be prepared and actively engage during scheduled series time

FREE TO PARTICIPATE 

Space is limited to the first 35 registrants who will receive a grant-funded scholarship that covers the entire $350 cost of participation. Due to limited enrollment, if you cannot commit to the full participant requirements, please defer this registration opportunity to others.  

FACILITATORS:

• James Von Busch, Ph.D., LPC
• Amanda Hankins, CADC, CADC-S

QUESTIONS?
Please contact the NFARtec Workwise Staff at [email protected] or by phone at 775-784-6265 or 866-617-2816 (toll-free).