Screening and Assessment of Youth with Co-Occurring Disorders

This 3-hour training is presented from the specialized perspective of providing clinical services to youth with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

Broadly, this training aspires to increase clinical recognition for the high prevalence of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders in youth.  It is also intended to initiate/reinforce increased considerations regarding the importance of conducting regular screenings and performing developmentally appropriate assessments.  Components of these broader goals include: prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders in addition to trauma and victimization for youth; developmental considerations regarding approaches to screening, assessment and diagnostic understanding; and exploration of specific tools for both screening and assessing youth.

Objectives: 

1. Describe current research regarding youth with co-occurring disorders and list factors that differentiate youth from adults.
2. Describe how physical, social and personality developmental factors during adolescents can be dramatically impacted by substance use/abuse (and vise-versa).
3. Describe Screening and Assessment from an integrated perspective
4. List at least three each: Screening and Assessment tools designed for an adolescent population; consider an integrated approach.

CEUs: This Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) sponsored training has been approved for 3 CPEs credit by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapist Board.  It has also been approved for 3.00 CEUs by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board in the content area of Assessment and Diagnosis of Addiction.

Cost: FREE!!!

Target Audience: Licenced clinicians providing direct services to youth in the mental health and substance abuse treatment disorders field.

Trainer: Michael Fox, MSSA, PCC-S, LCDC-III is a research associate & Trainer with the Center for Innovative Practices at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. He provides educational training and consultation to professionals working with youth and families with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse issues, including the Integrated Co-Occurring Treatment Model (ICT) model developed by the Center for Innovative Practices.