University of Alabama SBIRT Alcohol Activity

This activity is designed to change: Competence, Performance.3hr(s)

Activity Format:

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Goal: To provide health profession students with the necessary knowledge and skills training to be able to confidently interview, assess, and counsel patients with alcohol use disorders.

Educational Objectives:

After completing this activity participants will be able to:

Confidently conduct a basic patient interview assessing for alcohol use disorders.
Choose and implement an appropriate screening instrument.
Correctly identify the different criteria and distinguishing factors between abuse and dependence in patients.
Outline a preliminary diagnosis for patients with abuse or dependence.
Assess a patient's willingness to change and use this assessment to motivate the patient towards treatment.
Perform a brief intervention to patients who misuse alcohol.
Assess and refer those patients who are at a higher risk level to a specialist's care.
Manage patients who have relapsed, encouraging those patients to attempt treatment again.
Describe how to confidently interview patients for alcohol use.
Recommend to patients a treatment plan that coordinates patient care with other health professionals.
Facilitate treatment confidentiality in multiple contexts with multiple parties in a coordinated care effort.

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