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  • Describe in detail the 6 assessment dimensions of the ASAM patient placement criteria. Discuss their impact on proper placement and treatment planning.
  • Describe Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), its origins, history, foundations, and development. Detail the AA program of recovery, philosophy, how it works, and spin-off programs.
  • Describe in detail group therapy. Include a discussion of its curative factors, history, and processes. Note the various types of therapy groups and how they work.
  • Describe in detail the Stages of Change denoting each stage and describing the paths and processes associated with this model and each stage.
  • Discuss the physical effects of alcohol and describe in detail how various blood alcohol concentrations effect driving ability and life functions.

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Alcoholic Anonymous
The ASAM Criteria
The ASAM Criteria is a collaboration established in the 1980s to offer result-oriented
care in the diagnosis and treatment of addiction. The criteria have been utilized in many
countries to help victims of drug abuse recover from the menace. The plan offers a set of
procedures on placement, transfer, and discharge of patients who have shown signs of
addiction. The intervention provides separate placement criteria for adults and adolescents.
The separation enables individualized treatment plans for both groups (Ledgerwood &
Arfken 177). The criteria are based on six main assessment dimensions. The criteria help in
creating a holistic, biopsychosocial assessment used in planning treatment interventions for
all its services.
The first ASAM assessment dimension is the withdrawal potential or the acute
intoxication. The approach aims at exploring an individual’s status about drug use. It involves
assessing the victims past and present substance abuse trends to propose adequate treatment
interventions. According to Lefebvre and Gastfriend, the first stage leads to the second
dimension of biomedical conditions and complications (Lefebvre & Gastfriend 25). The
criteria involve an examination of the patient health status. It considers past and current
health conditions.

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The third dimension assesses the victim’s emotional and behavioral complications.
Stage 2 focuses on physical implications, but addiction interferes with the cognitive
functioning. Thus, it is essential to examine the individual mental and emotional issues. After
assessment of health conditions dimensions, one has to determine whether the victim is ready
for a change. The critical inquiry is if the individual is interested in and committed to the
change process. Dimension, five in the ASAM Criteria, determines individual response to the
change process (Ledgerwood & Arfken 172). Then the last aspect is the recovery. The
individual is kept on close ...


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