ABSTRACT

The chapter provides an overview of alcohol and other drug speciality, drug detection, and personality instruments. Readers have learned how and when to use these instruments to help clients attain their treatment goals. Assessment and treatment were typically viewed as distinctly separate. Each was compartmentalized. And, except for paperwork contained within the client's folder, more affectionately know as "the jacket"—assessment information on the left, progress notes and quarterly and yearly treatment reviews attached to the right—little effort was made to join the client in developing current treatment based on past and present assessment information. Readers have become familiar with common substance-related disorders and the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders' (fourth edition)-text revision basics—including the Multiaxial System and diagnostics—and have learned how to use this four-tiered model to jointly develop effective client treatment.