The first page of content will address behavioral patterns of use that are shared in your AA group. Make sure you DO NOT disclose any personal information. You will be strictly reporting the use. For example, one individual shared that they drank a case of beer a day, while another discussed binge drinking on weekends. The second page of your essay will be addressing information that you would need, but did not glean from the meetings, to finish screening and complete a thorough assessment that would enable you to properly diagnose an individual (you are not actually diagnosing in this assignment). This assignment is to challenge you to clinically think through what information you have and what further information would be needed in order to properly diagnose an individual. More specifically, without disclosing any information that could identify a particular person, think through two of the AA meetings you attended and your readings. Use the first page to describe the different patterns of use described in the meetings: Without disclosing any identifying information, discuss behaviors of substance use disorders (such as intensity, frequency, length of time, attempts to change) that were discussed in the meetings and the pertinence of these behaviors to an assessment. Then, use the next page to discuss what additional information you would need to complete a thorough screening and assessment in order to be able to properly diagnose an individual, including how you would gather this information if you were screening and then assessing the individual. Report the pertinent information Doweiko (2015), Hester and Miller (2003), and Clinton and Scalise (2013) suggested as needed to screen and assess for substance use disorders. NOTE: You are not diagnosing anyone in the group; you are merely reporting behavioral patterns of use discussed (without sharing and identifying information). You then will address other information that would be needed in for screening/assessment that would help you properly diagnose an individual. Discuss why the information you gave from the meeting is pertinent and why you would need further information for a proper diagnosis. Consider carefully what you do include for your essay. For example, you do not need to report details about where you are attending or other miscellaneous meeting details. You are simply focused on what you heard regarding behavioral patterns in your meeting. This may be minimal information, depending on what people share in the meetings, such as just indicating how much they used during a relapse. Or, you may have multiple people who have shared very specifically about how much they used, how frequently, for how long, and how they have attempted to change. Your goal is to report what you know, then describe what else you would need to know in order to accurately screen and assess.
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