ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a general description of the Clinical Interviews, Standardized Speciality, Drug Detection, and Personality Assessment (CLISD-PA) model. It identifies the purposes of each of the four tiers and discusses the two basic CLISD-PA assumptions. The four-tiered Clinical Interviews, Standardized Speciality, Drug Detection, and Personality Assessment model is a progressive, stepwise substance abuse assessment model. The CLISD-PA model is used by clinical interns and staff supervised by Juhnke in his role as director of the Counseling and Consulting Services Clinic. Tier One of the CLISD-PA model begins with an individual clinical interview, at the conclusion of the clinical interview, counselors should have sufficient information to determine whether or not a clinical interview with the clients' significant others is warranted. The CLISD-PA model is founded on two general assumptions. First, multiple information sources provide superior assessments when compared to a single source. The second general CLISD-PA model assumption is that, when warranted, progressive "tiers" of intensive assessment are used.
