November 20, 2024

8:30AM - 1:00PM Pacific Time


Virtual Training on The Evolution of The ASAM Criteria: What’s New in the Fourth Edition

This is an exclusive training for State of Washington Health Care Authority. Please contact the hosting agency for registration details.

About the event

The Fourth Edition of The ASAM Criteria builds on the past 30 years of The Criteria and provides an updated, streamlined, and pragmatic approach to assessment and treatment planning. This session will provide a consolidated overview, in addition to some of the “why” in relation to the major changes in terminology, levels of care, dimensions and assessment processes.

Session Objectives:

· Understand the intent, revised descriptions, language and reordering of the 6 Dimensions

· Explore some of the numerous nuances of the revised dimension 6 “Person-Centered Considerations”

· Explore the three major assessment moments over the course of addiction care based on the ASAM Criteria

· Review the four broad levels of care and understand how the decimal system defines gradations of treatment intensity

· Discuss the universal service characteristic standards

· Understand how the risk ratings have been integrated into the Dimensional Admission Criteria to support consistency and simplicity for making level of care decisions

About the trainer

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, MD, and Simmons University School of Social Work in Boston, MA. In the fall of 2018, he was awarded the Dean’s Teaching Award at the University of Maryland due to instructional excellence. In September 2016, he 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 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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