The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition: Level of Care Assessment Guide

Course overview

The ASAM Criteria promotes individualized and holistic focused clinical assessment, treatment planning, and guides clinicians and care managers in making objective decisions about patient admission, continuing care, and movement along the continuum of care. It provides a framework for organizing the addiction treatment system and determining appropriate level-of-care recommendations. Dr. Patterson will provide an overview of Levels of Care and Dimensional Criteria for admission to treatment. She will present vignette examples to guide discussions for making multidimensional assessments based on the ASAM criteria, 4 th Edition for adults service characteristic standard for levels of care. Content of new chapters in The ASAM Criteria and the updated continuum of care with decimal numbers to express further gradations of intensity and types of care provided are examined.