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CEU Course Description
This guide will help you conduct fast, effective alcohol screens and interventions with your patients, even during brief, acute care visits. The tools, tips, and resources are designed to help you surmount common obstacles to youth alcohol screening in primary care. Typical barriers include insufficient time, unfamiliarity with screening tools, the need to triage competing problems, and uncertainty about how to manage a positive screen (Van Hook et al., 2007).

CEU Course Objectives

1.  Identify the need for to screen for underage drinking for those who manage the health and well-being of children and adolescents ages 9–18 years, and describe various screening methods.

2. Evaluate underage drinking patterns and discuss confidentiality factors related to alcohol use among minors.

3. List the four specific steps of the screening process, including how to differentiate between lower, moderate, and highest risk of adverse consequences.

4. Discuss the use of brief motivational interviewing for alcohol interventions with adolescents.

ACE credit is not offered for this course. A list of courses offering ACE credit can be found here.

CAADE Approval

This course is CAADE approved.

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Added On: 05/31/2012