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Accurate assessment is vital for adequate treatment planning.
Furthermore assessment is a part of building a relationship with the client and also an important part of treatment. Precise assessment of a client s substance related and mental health disorders is also used as an integrated part of communicating about the client to other professionals. Goals for this course include providing students with basic knowledge about the features, including similarities and differences, of abuse and dependence of various substances. Students will be introduced to a variety of assessment methods used to diagnose different substance-related disorders. As a consequence, students will be introduced to the major psychiatric disorders and learn to differentiate symptoms of substance abuse from symptoms of other psychiatric disorders, as well as to differentiate the symptoms of one psychiatric disorder from another.