The Revised Second Edition ASAM Patient Placement Criteria: Understanding and Using ASAM PPC-2R

David Mee-Lee, M.D.

Workshop Description:

Clinicians involved in planning and managing care often lack a common language and systematic assessment and treatment approach that allows for effective, individualized treatment plans. The Patient Placement Criteria of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) first published in 1991, provided common language to help the field develop a broader continuum of care. The second edition (PPC-2) was published in 1996 and a revised second edition (ASAM PPC-2R) was published April 2001.

This one-day workshop is designed to explain the underlying principles of the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria (PPC); update participants in new developments in the ASAM PPC and apply the ASAM Criteria role in individualized treatment and care management.

Specific hands-on exercises will help participants begin to implement the ASAM Criteria through careful assessment, tailored treatment planning and broadening services to provide a more flexible continuum of care.

 

Objectives:

Participants will:

1. Review the underlying concepts and principles of the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria.

2. Discuss changes made in the revised second edition of the ASAM Criteria, ASAM PPC-2R. These changes include criteria for those with co-occurring mental and substance-related disorders.

3. Apply the ASAM PPC-2R in clinical work to broaden services and better meet the needs of clients, including "dual diagnosis" clients.

 

 

The Revised Second Edition ASAM Patient Placement Criteria: Understanding and Using ASAM PPC-2R

Agenda

8:30 AM
Registration
9:00 AM A. Review of Underlying Concepts of the ASAM Criteria
  • Treatment follows theory - Biopsychosocial perspective of addiction
  • Treatment follows assessment - Biopsychosocial functioning and severity
  • Biopsychosocial treatment and Levels of Service

B. ASAM Criteria, Second Edition, Revised (ASAM PPC-2R)

  • Changes in ASAM PPC-2R
  • Implications in care management
  • Dual diagnosis criteria and guidelines; nomenclature and use of terms
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM

C. How to Organize Assessment Data

  • Multidimensional assessment, severity and level of function profiles
  • Targeting and focusing treatment and placement

D. How and When to Use the Criteria

  • The continued service and discharge/transfer criteria
  • Treatment planning and communication with providers
    - problem identification; individualized treatment plans
12 Noon Lunch
1:00 PM E. Readiness to Change - Dimension 4
  • Assessment of Dimension 4
  • Engaging the patient as a participant in treatment

F. Relapse/Continued Use/Continued Problem Potential -
Dimension 5

  • Dealing with relapse clients with multiple treatments
  • Contrasting Dimensions 4 and 5 in understanding multiple treatments
2:35 PM Break
2:45 PM G. Improving Services to Implement the ASAM PPC-2R
  • Developing service tracks for stages of change
  • "Unbundling" and implications for more flexible services and funding
  • On-going assessment and continuous improvement of treatment plans
4:00 PM Adjourn