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PD I. Clinical Evaluation
Competency 29:
Review the treatment options that are appropriate for the client’s needs,
characteristics, goals, and financial resources.
Knowledge
uX
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Treatment options and their philosophies
and characteristics.
Relationship among client needs, available
treatment options, and other community
resources.
Skills
uX Eliciting and determining relevant client
characteristics, needs, and goals.
u Making appropriate recommendations
for treatment and use of other available
community resources.
u Collaborating with the client to determine
the best course of action.
Attitudes
uX Recognition of one’s own treatment biases.
u Appreciation of various treatment
approaches.
u Willingness to link client with a variety
of helping resources.
Competency 30:
Apply accepted criteria for diagnosis of substance use disorders in making
treatment recommendations.
Knowledge
uX The continuum of care and the available
range of treatment modalities.
u Current Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or
other accepted criteria for substance use
disorders, including strengths and
limitations of such criteria.
u Use of commonly accepted criteria for
client placement into levels of care.
u Multiaxis diagnostic criteria.
Skills
uX Using current DSM or other accepted
diagnostic standards.
u Using appropriate placement criteria.
u Obtaining information necessary to
develop a diagnostic impression.
Attitudes
uX Recognition of personal and professional
limitations of practice, based on
knowledge and training.
u Willingness to base treatment
recommendations on the client’s best
interest and preferences.
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