Clinicians involved in planning and managing care often lack a common language and systematic assessment and treatment approach that allows for effective, individualized treatment plans. The Patient Placement Criteria of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) first published in 1991, provided common language to help the field develop a broader continuum of care.  The second edition (PPC-2) was published in 1996 and a revised second edition (ASAM PPC-2R) was published April 2001. This two-day workshop is designed to explain the underlying principles of the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria (PPC) and assist participants in using and implementing the ASAM Criteria. As clinicians and programs strive to implement concepts of continuum of care, levels of care, clinically-driven, individualized treatment, they still struggle with how to use complex placement criteria.  There is a need for improved skills to carefully assess clients in a multidimensional way; determine appropriate treatment and level of care placement. This workshop is also designed to address skill building in assessment and documentation; and help implement a continuum of care.  There will also be opportunity for case consultation and program design dilemmas.  Specific hands-on exercises will help participants use case examples to implement the ASAM Criteria.   

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