Open Enrollment

Two-Day Virtual Skill-Building Training: Understanding The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition and Its Clinical Application

OVERVIEW

The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition presents a practical framework for providing patient-centered assessment and treatment planning services to individuals with addictive, substance-related, and co-occurring conditions.

This training is designed to guide healthcare professionals through core concepts, standards, and processes of the recently released Fourth Edition of The ASAM Criteria, including:

  • Principles of The ASAM Criteria
  • Organization of the continuum of care
  • Conducting multidimensional Level of Care and Treatment Planning Assessments
  • Utilizing the new Dimensional Admission Criteria and level of care determination rules to make level of care recommendations
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  1. Define foundational principles and key components of The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition.
  2. Identify the treatment levels that make up the Fourth Edition’s continuum of care and explain how integrated care is incorporated within the different levels of care.
  3. Understand the multidimensional assessment dimensions, subdimensions, and integrated Risk Ratings, and how they are applied within assessment and treatment planning contexts.
  4. Utilize The ASAM Criteria Level of Care Assessment and apply the Dimensional Admission Criteria to make level of care recommendations.

CEs/CMEs available for Psychologists, Counselors, Mental Health and Family Therapy Professionals, Social Workers, Nurses, and Medical Professionals. Please check with your board to confirm credits.

Questions, ADA requests, or grievances, please contact Addison Jones, customer implementation manager, Customer Solutions Delivery and Success, by email at ajones@hazeldenbettyford.org or phone 651-213-4655.


Used with permission from The ASAM Criteria: Treatment Criteria for Addictive, Substance-Related, and Co-occurring Conditions, American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). All Rights Reserved. Unless authorized in writing by ASAM, no part may be reproduced or used in a manner inconsistent with ASAM’s copyright. This prohibition applies to unauthorized uses or reproductions in any form.