USING EMPIRICAL AND EVIDENCE-BASED FINDINGS...

... TO ACHIEVE BETTER TREATMENT OUTCOMES WITH LIMITED RESOURCES

Gerald Shulman reveals how to apply knowledge from evidence-based and empirical sources to improve treatment outcomes, often at little or no extra cost. Expand levels of care, provide more individualised treatment, explore continuing care, case-mix concerns, length of service and outcomes for various subpopulations, and different treatment models for patients with different severities of mental-health disorders. 

Jerry Shulman is an internationally recognised expert in clinical services in addiction and dual diagnosis, patient placement criteria, clinical documentation, older adults, assessment, results-based treatment and counsellor development. He consults with corporations, state agencies, managed care companies and treatment programmes on assessment, patient placement, care management and outcomes-based treatment.

He was involved in developing the Asam Patient Placement Criteria for the Treatment of Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders, chaired the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers’ patient placement committee. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Chemical Dependency Treatment.

He has been a workgroup facilitator for two CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocols: Substance Abuse Among Older Adults and Guidelines for the Treatment of Alcohol- and Other Drug-Abusing Adolescents, chaired state boards developing counsellor credentialing standards, was a grant reviewer for NIAAA and a consultant to JCAH (now JCAHO) for development of the first accreditation standards for alcoholism programmes.