Become a Facilitator
Driving With Care™ Training Announcement
Evidence Based Specialists is currently offering a training in October 2012 for individuals/agencies that want to become a Driving With Care™ facilitator. If you would like to be put on the registration list for the upcoming Driving With Care™ two day training, please contact Corey Mabis at Corey@evidencebasedspecialists.com.
The cost of the two day training is $450 per participant, no discounted rates will be offered at this training. The cost includes the two day training, the Level I, Level II and Level II therapy manuals.
The training will be held at 8210 Penn Ave S., Bloomington, MN.
Adult Substance Use and Driving Survey- Revised (ASUDS-R) Training Announcement
Evidence Based Specialists is currently offering a one day ASUDS-R training on June 22, 2012.
The ASUDS-R is a self-report screening instrument that also incorporates information gathered through collateral data and an individual interview. The ASUDS-R can be used to provide guidelines for assessing levels of alcohol or other drug problems, abuse and dependence. It can also be used to provide referral guidelines for various levels and types of services for impaired driving offenders. It can be used to assess during and post-treatment changes.
Julie Trisko will facilitate this one day training. The cost is $200 per participant. The cost will include materials to administer this assessment.
The training will be held from 9 am to 4:30 pm at 8210 Penn Ave S., Bloomington, MN. A minimum of 10 participants required for this training to be held, so please spread the word. Registration and payment deadline is June 1, 2012.
Payments can be sent to: Evidence Based Specialists, 4936 30th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55417. Please email Corey Mabis to reserve a spot at this training, corey@evidencebasedspecialists.com.
Driving With Care™ (DWC) Programs
Training in the use of Driving With Care™ is recommended because it will enable educators, treatment providers and DWI offenders to receive the maximum benefit from the courses. Participants will be able to facilitate three programs once they have completed the training requirements. All EBS educators have been endorsed and trained by authors Kenneth Wanberg, Ph.D., and David Timkin, Ph.D.
Level 1 Education
Level 1 is a six-session, 12 hour DWI education program designed for first time offenders with minimal if any problems other than impaired driving associated with alcohol or other drugs (AOD) use, who have no prior offenses, no prior diagnosis of Substance Abuse or Substance Dependence, and no other problems related to AOD use or misuse. The main purposes of this protocol are to prevent recidivism (DWI behavior) and to prevent future AOD related problems.
Level 2 Education
Level 2 Education is a 12-session, 24 hour education program for impaired driving offenders who have at least minimal indicators of past problems associated with AOD use or misuse and whose arrest BAC was at the impaired driving level. Level II Education helps clients to understand how problem behaviors are learned and how those behaviors are strengthened. They develop a good understanding of their involvement in impaired driving and how their own AOD use fits clinically identified patterns and cycles of AOD use and misuse. They become able to develop strategies and skills to prevent future problems of use and misuse and involvement in DWI behavior: relapse and recidivism prevention. This is a pre-requisite and foundation for Level II Therapy.
Level 2 Therapy
Level 2 Therapy is a 21-session, 42-hour program including 10 manual guided therapy projects. Level II Therapy assists in developing and implementing individualized treatment plans. It is designed for clients with higher levels of AOD disruption and psychosocial problems who are in need of treatment and intervention over longer periods of time. The program builds on the core concepts and ideas of DWC Education with a more intensive and therapeutic approach. The primary objectives are preventing recidivism and relapse with the overall goal of developing strategies for responsible living and change.
Training Length and Content
The training consists of two consecutive days of experiential exercises coupled with lecture. Background, theoretical orientation and a brief literature review are presented with an emphasis on the Cognitive Behavioral model of learning and Change and Motivational enhancements.
Trainee Qualifications
Persons attended DWC training should have an advanced degree in behavioral sciences and/or advanced certification as an addiction counselor and experience working with DWI offenders. Persons who do not meet these requirements may attend the training if written assurance is received from both the individual and the employing agency/provider that the trainee will co-facilitate DWC groups a filly qualified counselor present. This restriction shall remain in effect until the employing agency and State DWI education regulators believe the individual in question ready to conduct sessions by him/herself.
Training Costs
The cost per training varies depending on the number of trainers required, participants, training days, preparation and travel time costs, etc. Consultation on any DWC will be provided at no cost to attendees or agencies for six months following the training.
Adult Substance Use and Driving Survey- Revised (ASUDS-R)
The ASUDS-R is a 123 item psychometric-based, self-report, differential screening instrument, designed and normed for impaired driving offenders. It is appropriate for clients 16 years or older, and may be administered by self report or interview format. The ASUS-R meets the needs of a self-report instrument that is an essential component of a convergent validation approach to the assessment of patterns and problems associated AOD (alcohol and other drugs) use within impaired driving populations. The ASUDS-R contains all of the scales of the Adult Substance Use Survey-Revised.
The ASUDS-R assesses an individual’s AOD use involvement in ten categories of drugs, and measures the degree of disruption that might result from the use of these drugs. Three supplemental scales provide a differential assessment of disruptive AOD use outcomes which are subscales of the general DISRUPTION scale. The ASUDS-R provides a specific measure of the degree of involvement in the use of alcohol, and a specific measure of driving-risk attitudes and behaviors. There is an AOD use benefits scale. It also provides a screen for emotional or mood adjustment problems, a measure of social non-conformity, a measure of legal con-conformity, a measure of defensiveness or resistance to self-disclosure, and a scale to assess motivation and readiness for treatment. It provides measures of AOD involvement and legal conforming for the most recent six month period the client has been in the community.
The ASUDS-R can be used to provide guidelines for assessing levels of AOD problems, abuse and dependence. It can also be used to provide referral guidelines for various levels and types of services for impaired driving offenders. It can be used to assess during and post-treatment changes.
Extensive construct validation studies (e.g., perspective, criterion, concurrent, predictive) have been done on the ASUDS-R scales, using several large samples of impaired driving offenders. As well, for the ASUDS-R scales that are cross-matched with the Adult Substance Use Survey-Revised (ASUS-R), construct validation studies have been done on large samples not specific to impaired driving offenders. Principal components analyses and Cronbach alpha studies of each scale have demonstrated optimal internal consistency reliabilites congruent with the item size of respective scales. Scale independence has been demonstrated. Simple linear and multiple linear studies have demonstrated strong relationships between ASUDS-R scales and external criterion variables (e.g., eternal measures of substance use involvement and disruption, prior treatment, BAC levels, prior impaired driving involvement, etc.). Simple linear relationships between the ASUDS-R scales and perspective variables (age, gender, ethnicity, marital status) support hypotheses around these relationships. The User’s Guides for the original ASUDS and ASUS-R provide a detailed summary of scale construct validation studies.
The ASUDS-R is available in a paper-pencil and automated version.
