NIDA/SAMHSA-ATTC Blending Initiative: ASI-Based Treatment Planning:
Deni Carise, Ph.D.
With A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. and Senior TRI Administrator Meghan Love, Dr. Carise led a NIDA research team in collaboration with SAMHSA/CSAT and the Mid-Atlantic, Mountain West and Gulf Coast ATTCs to develop a comprehensive training package on treatment planning. The training teaches counselors and clinical managers to transform the ASI assessment process into a clinically useful exercise by using results to identify client problems, develop individual treatment plans, make referrals matched to client needs, and monitor treatment outcomes ad/or client retention. The package includes a face-to-face and online training curriculum, accompanying instructional CD, and electronic reference and resource kit.

DENS: Drug Evaluation Network System: Deni Carise, Ph.D.
An ASI-based, computerized patient assessment system linking client assessment with treatment planning was developed with funding from the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy and is now installed in numerous state-systems, agency-based systems and Veterans Administration programs, as well as several international sites including Ireland, Thailand, Scotland, Sweden and others. More on DENS

ASI and Other Training: Deni Carise, Ph.D.
TRI is a world-renowned training center offering ASI, treatment planning, brief intervention and other trainings to assist providers in implementing empirically derived practices. Standardized, empirically developed manuals and other support materials help clinicians make the best use of data collected, especially at the assessment, treatment planning and post-discharge time periods.

United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime TreatNet Project – An International Network of Drug Dependence Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers: Deni Carise, Ph.D., Mady Chalk, Ph.D.
TRI’s Deni Carise and Mady Chalk are helping build capacity among the twenty Treatment and Rehabilitation Resource Centers established by the United Nations across the world as repositories for the exchange of knowledge about drugs, treatment methods and organizational development. Primary targets are the service providers (physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, case workers, etc.), service managers, planners, and trainers working at the Centers. TRI’s work focuses on the twelve centers in disadvantaged regions (Brazil, Colombia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Russia) where Carise and Chalk are leading development of training packages for Screening, Assessment and Treatment Planning and training of 40 trainers from the national sites. Carise is also responsible for leading the translations and cultural adaptations of assessment and treatment planning instruments.