Behavioral Treatments: Engaging Patients from Diagnosis to Recovery
Webcast
Faculty
OVERVIEW
Behavioral Treatments: Engaging Patients from Diagnosis to Recovery is organized by California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) and will be held during Sep 22, 2016 - Sep 21, 2018.
The target audience for this medical event is Addiction medicine specialists who want an overview of the latest developments in the field and their relevance to clinical practice, Primary care clinicians who want to get a better understanding of addiction and manage patients with addictions in their practice, Public health officials who want an understanding of the current state of addiction treatment, Non-physicians who are involved in the treatment of addiction. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Conference Objectives are :
• Be able to formulate an appropriate abstinence-oriented or maintenance-oriented treatment plan for a patient with a substance use disorder.
• Be able to understand the need for a spectrum of treatment for substance use disorders, from screening and brief intervention to outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, and residential treatment and understand what the evidence base is for which interventions work for which populations/drugs of abuse.
• Be able to discuss with patients and refer patients to self-help group resources and complementary/alternative health approaches for treatment of substance use disorders.
• Recognize the importance of the larger context and system of healthcare involved in substance use disorder treatment.
• Understand the role of quality management (outcome measures, satisfaction measures, performance evaluation).
• As time permits, be familiar with the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria and appropriate use of levels of care.
• Understand the importance of treatment matching, particularly with special populations.
• Be able to describe an overview of behavioral interventions, including individual psychotherapy, contingency management, milieu therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, etc.
• Understand the role of integration of behavioral and pharmacological treatment.
• Brief review of 12-Step Programs.
• Brief review of MI.
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.