Content Areas for the EMAC
- Addiction Counseling Practices
- Provide counseling to clients with special issues such as disabilities and physical abuse
- Provide individual, group, family counseling and/or crisis intervention for clients and/or their significant others
- Apply ethical and/or Federal counseling legal standards
- Implement treatment plans to ensure client understanding of psychopharmacological interactions of drugs/medications being used.
- Treatment Planing and Implementation
- Construct comprehensive care/treatment plans including goals, objectives, strategies, time frame, discharge criteria, and aftercare/continuing care
- Evaluate care/treatment outcomes
- Formulate DSM-IV classification (Axes IV)
- Develop a therapeutic relationship with client
- Orientation to Treatment Process
- Assess compatibility of program services for client
- Inform client about treatment process
- Inform client about legal issues and rights
- Provide other referral sources, if not admitted
- Assessment
- Assess potential for client to harm self/others
- Determine severity of client's addiction
- Determine alcohol and other drug (AOD) signs and symptoms of intoxication or withdrawal
- Assess client's external support systems
- Prevention
- Prepare age specific prevention materials
- Develop programs based on needs assessment
- Promote healthy life style choices