This course focuses on patient placement criteria for clients in need of substance use disorder services and assessment procedures in substance abuse treatment.

Topics covered include:

• Advantages of adopting uniform patient placement criteria
• Guidelines for level of care determination procedures
• Placement criteria categories and characteristics
• Implementation strategies
• Placement issues for special needs populations
• ASAM criteria dimensions and guiding principles
• ASAM levels of care
• ASAM withdrawal management levels of care
• Assessment instruments
• Diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders
• Assessment skills and techniques
• Assessment with special populations

25 Hours – $200