ASI Online Training and Learning Lab Virtual meetings

Presenter: Thomas Coyne, Ed. D, LCSW

Course Description:

The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is a standardized, semi-structured, multi-focused screening and assessment instrument used to establish the nature and severity of any Medical, Employment, Drug, Alcohol, Legal, Family, Social, and/or Psychiatric Problems a person may present with. The information collected using the ASI has clinical, program evaluation and research utility.

While the course is primarily designed to achieve the documented goal of developing and/or enhancing the knowledge and skills required to correctly administer the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), it also discusses the clinical significance of the ASI items, and introduces the participant to the relationship and functionality of the information collected to common clinical tasks such as making; a diagnosis/diagnostic impression using the DSM-5, a level of care recommendation using the ASAM Criteria, and developing treatment plans.

Course Goals:

• Learn the purpose and clinical significance of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI).
• Review the purpose and clinical significance of each of the seven sections of the ASI.
• Review ways to introduce the ASI interview and the importance for each of the seven sections to the client.
• Understand the purpose and clinical significance of the items in each section of the ASI.
• Learn ways to phrase each question in the most efficient way while remaining flexible enough to adapt the instrument to make it more gender, cultural, and population sensitive.
• Learn the recommended probes and additional questions to augment the items in the ASI, and the information provided by the client.
• Understand the importance of coding conventions and to code correctly the client's responses to each item in the section.
• Review the common errors made when interviewing and/ or coding client responses.
• Learn ways of using cross checking to verify self-report when recommended items and other information are collected.
• Learn to utilize the interviewer severity rating procedure.

Contact Hours & CEUs: 24.0 contact hours

Cost: $60.00-Limited Space

Approved by: NAADAC, TDMHSAS, TCB; not approved for CPRS

Counselor skill group(s) targeted: Clinical Intake and Screening, Clinical Assessment, Counseling Services, Case management, Treatment plan, Discharge, Continuing Care and Professional Development

About the presenter:

Thomas H. Coyne, Ed.D., LCSW, is a nationally recognized clinical adult educator, who has provided training and technical assistance regarding the assessment and treatment of substance abuse, and the evaluation and monitoring of treatment outcomes. He has provided training in over 40 states, and has worked with several on the development and implementation of a web based assessment, outcomes monitoring and clinical decision support system. He received his doctorate from Columbia University, studying the "Learning Transfer Systems" of Community Based Organizations, and the role this system plays in Technology Transfer and Workforce Development.

While he is most notably recognized for his work regarding the clinical, program evaluation and research uses of standardized assessment tools such as the Addiction Severity Index. He has extensive experience in the design, delivery and evaluation of training, learning, technical assistance and technology transfer nationally on a variety of topic areas and projects in the substance abuse field including all though not limited to utilizing Uniform Patient Placement Criteria, (i.e. ASAM), Relapse Prevention, and HIV/AIDS. His training and technical assistance expertise's have been applied to contracts and grants held with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), National Center on Alcohol and Substance Abuse (CASA), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Office of National Drug Control and Policy and the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Drug Court Institute.

He can be reached at Email: [email protected], or visit his website at www.ASlTrainingOnline.com

Host or Publisher Tennessee Association of Alcohol, Drug & other Addiction Services (TAADAS)