January 17, 2025
8:30AM - 1:00PM Pacific Time
Virtual Training on The Evolution of The ASAM Criteria: What’s New in the Fourth Edition
About the event
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
Catherine S. Chichester is an advanced practice nurse with certification as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing and holds a Master's degree in Nursing Administration from Georgetown University. Recognized as a change agent she has written, directed, and consulted on multiple grant-funded projects spanning the areas of integration of co-occurring disorders, behavioral health and health care, criminal justice and behavioral health, and evidence-based behavioral health services. She serves as the Executive Director of the Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine which she had led for the past 25 years, during which the Collaborative has been recognized both statewide and nationally for creating system change with respect to the services for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. She also is an adjunct faculty at a local university and maintains her clinical practice skills, performing admission assessments at a local psychiatric hospital.
