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Virtual Two-day ASAM Criteria 4th Edition Skill Building Training – Session 1

Virtual
5 CE Hours
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Description

This two-day, application focused training will provide participants with an in-depth look at some of the significant changes and improvements in the Fourth Edition of the ASAM Criteria. Participants will have opportunities to apply and practice key components of the Criteria, including but not limited to; the six dimensions, level of care assessment, application of Risk Ratings to each of the Five Dimensions, Dimensional Admission Criteria Decision Rules, shared decision making and an overview of Service Characteristic Standards, Discharge,  and Transition Criteria.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Psychologist
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to provide participants with an in-depth look at some of the significant changes and improvements in the Fourth Edition of the ASAM Criteria.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Summarize the revised dimensions, sub-dimensions and dimensional assessment goals in the ASAM Criteria 4th Edition.

  • Explain Dimension 6, “Person-Centered Considerations” and shared decision making.

  • Describe the core actionable factors, varied focus, and intent between the Level of Care Assessment and the Treatment Planning Assessment.

  • Review and practice application of the dimensional admission criteria, integrated risk ratings, continued stay and transition criteria.

  • Identify the four broad levels of care and explain how the decimal system defines intensity.

  • Identify and describe key level of care “service characteristic” standards.

  • Explain the intent and relevance of Trauma Sensitive Practices, Social Determinants of Health and Culturally Humble Care.

  • Analyze Harm Reduction as an important aspect of individualized, person centered care

  • Summarize the expectations for co-occurring care and addiction medications.

References

  • Mee-Lee D, Shulman GD, Fishman MJ, Gastfriend DR, Miller MM, eds. The ASAM Criteria: Treatment Criteria for Addictive, Substance-Related, and Co-Occurring Conditions. (2023). 3rd ed. Carson City, NV: The Change Companies®.

  • Waller RC, Boyle MP, Daviss SR, et al,eds. (2023).The ASAM Criteria: Treatment Criteria for Addictive, Substance-Related, and Co-occurring Conditions, Volume 1: Adults. 4th Edition Hazelden Publishing.

  • World Health Organization. (2022). Social Determinants of Health.https://www.who.int/health-topics/social-determinants-of-health

Clinical
Social Worker

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 5 continuing education credits.

Psychologist

Pending Approval.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Ethical and Professional Development, Legal

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by the Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Behavioral Health. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Bernie Showers, PhD, LCSW

 

Dr. Bernard Showers, DSW, LCSW, earned his MSW at Shippensburg University in 2010, where he is now an Adjunct Professor. Mr. Showers also works as an Adjunct Professor for the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore and Simmons University School of Social Work in Boston, Massachusetts. In the fall of 2018, he was awarded the Dean’s Teaching Award at the University of Maryland for instructional excellence. In September 2016, Dr. Showers attended the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers Train-the-Trainer event and is now one of 1,500 MINT members worldwide. Mr. Showers has trained aspiring and active independent practitioners at many colleges, universities, governmental agencies, and companies around the United States. In addition to Motivational Interviewing, Mr. Showers has developed, presented, and published several continuing education workshops on family involvement in substance use treatment, ASAM criteria, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and group therapy. Bernard earned his DSW as part of the inaugural class of The University of Kentucky’s Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) program. In July 2021, Bernard Showers was the lead author on the manuscript “Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Rural America: A Review of the Literature” published in the APA’s Journal of Rural Mental Health.

 

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