Screening, brief intervention, referral to treatment: time to get to work

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment.

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment is a quick, effective technique with which to manage substance use in adolescents and young adults. Use of a validated measure for detecting substance use and abuse is significantly more effective than unvalidated tools or provider intuition. There are a variety of validated tools available to use in the adolescent/young adult population,...

Teaching screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment to social work students

Although social workers encounter many clients with substance use problems, curricula rarely require education on addictions. The screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) model was initially directed to practicing physicians. Recently, training has evolved to include medical students. This study describes the first known application of SBIRT training to social work stude...

Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for adolescents.

Drug, alcohol, and tobacco use is highly prevalent among high school students in United States, and adolescents, even those without a substance use disorder, are at high risk of morbidity and mortality related to use of these substances. The primary care setting provides access to adolescents, and the health maintenance visit provides a private, confidential setting in which patients expect to ...

Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment: a nursing perspective.

Cost to conduct screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in healthcare settings

Introduction This paper presents data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) cross-site evaluation of the third cohort of SAMHSA grantees implementing screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) services in selected sites. Cost estimates for SBIRT service provision are needed because in the present environment, healthcare expenditures wi...