You managed to schedule an informal conference with the area director at the regional OSHA office four days after you receive the Notice of Citations and Penalty. Based on the citations and penalties you received in Unit III, prepare a document that lists the citations and penalties you wish to discuss with the area director.   You should summarize what you are trying to accomplish in regard to each citation/penalty you choose, to include:   the information you will use to try and accomplish your goal,   the information you will take with you to the meeting, and   who will accompany you to the meeting.   You must support your actions with reliable sources. Your grade will be based on your ability to present a case to your professor (serving as the area director) to reduce either the severity of some citations, or the amount of some penalties. If you simply state that you accept the citations and penalties as written, you will receive a minimal score on the assignment.   Your response must be a minimum of two pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. You must use at least one reference in the paper. All sources must be cited in the text and on the reference page, using APA style

Application: Evaluating an Addictions Assessment Tool

Addictions professionals can choose from many types of tools. Addictions assessments are divided into screening and assessment tools. Addictions screening tools are meant to determine if an addiction might be a possibility; they are not intended to diagnose. Addictions professionals use them to gain a basic idea of an individual’s orientation to an addiction. Addictions assessment tools are typically geared toward detecting dependence on or addiction to a specific, identified substance or behavior. These tools are broader in scope and often take special training and considerable time to administer.

The difficulty often is not in finding a tool to use with a client, but rather in choosing the most effective and appropriate tool from a wide variety. Though choices of screening and assessment tools is often made by the organization in which an addictions professional works, many considerations including cost, time to administer, training, and accuracy enter into the selection of the right test for each individual with a potential substance or process addiction. Thus, it is important that addictions professionals be familiar with the tools available to them and understands the effectiveness of these tools in assessing what they are intended to assess.

In this Assignment, you select one assessment tool from several well-known addictions assessment tools and research and provide an evaluation of its purpose, administration, and efficacy.

To prepare:

Review the Learning Resources, including the following:

• “Brief Intervention in College Settings”

• “Ethics in Psychological Assessment”

• “Assessing Addiction: Concepts and Instruments”

  Assignment Directions:

  Select one of the following assessment tools, found in this week’s Learning Resources:

• Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory-3

• The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test

• The Addiction Severity Index

  Research and select two articles of your choice on your chosen addictions assessment tool.

  Submit by Sunday 3/26/17 a 2- to 4-page critique of the addictions assessment tool you chose. Include the following:

• Brief purpose of the assessment

• Reliability of the assessment

• Validity of the assessment

• Type of normative data the assessment assesses

• Time of administration

• Cost

• Reading level, if known

• Any special administration considerations (e.g., need for a computer or special training)

• Benefits and limitations

• Overall utility of the test in an addictions assessment

Cite your sources using APA guidelines.

Answer all components in the assignment as there are usually several. These can serve as your headings in APA format. Using these headings will help keep your paper organized, ensure you cover all objectives, and enhance readability. You may find that if you bullet-point these requirements and refer to them as you write, you will address all of the portions of the question.

References:

McLellan, A. T., Luborsky, L., O’Brien, C. P., & Woody, G. E. (1980). An improved diagnostic instrument for substance abuse patients, The Addiction Severity Index. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 168, 26–33.  Miller, G. A., Roberts, J., Brooks, M. K., & Lazowski, L. E. (1997). SASSI-3 user’s guide. Bloomington, IN: Baugh Enterprises. Seltzer, M. L. (1971). The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test: The quest for a new diagnostic instrument. American Journal of Psychiatry, 127, 1653–1658.