ASAM Also is Working to Assure Adequate Addiction Coverage Asam Form

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hi everyone welcome to today's presentation on asam criteria this is the american society of addiction medicines guidelines we're going to look at two different elements of asam the first is going to be the actual dimensions that we use to assess clients and then we're also going to look at the specific levels of care where we place clients so first of all the dimensions of treatment are basically six different categories on which we assess clients what we're doing is gathering information during the assessment process which then guides what level of care we would recommend for a client so what we're using here is a bio psychosocial or sometimes called bps model of assessment it's a great holistic way of looking at a client's background and trying to gather information and make a a good clinical judgment about what type of care they need so a way to break down those six different dimensions is to think of each of those areas bio psycho and social so the bio biological dimensions reall