Mat Counselor Handbook

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Mat counselor handbook.

Addiction is a chronic disease meaning that it does not have a cure and patients will have to manage their symptoms. The mat counselor handbook for certification of counselors working in a medication assisted treatment setting publication date. Baart programs has delivered quality outpatient medication assisted treatment and counseling for more than 40 years. Ddiction is a disease.

The necessity of maximizing face to face contact. Mat counselor education course part 1 10 hours chapters 1 through 7 includes primer on opioid addiction and treatment history of opioids and opioid treatment science and rationale for opiate agonist treatment pharmacology pharmacotherapy screening admission assessment and behavioral pharmacology of methadone. Mat counselor education course part 1 10 hours. T uses medications with counseling to treat the whole patient.

Basic overview of medication assisted treatment. Medication assisted treatment mat is the use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies to provide a whole patient approach to the treatment of substance use disorders. The gre or mat is required. A thorough revision of the trusted career counselor guide from two veterans in the field including the author of the best selling career book in the world.

We do suggest students aim to score 386 or higher on the mat or 290 or higher verbal quantitative on the gre for admission. Based upon the mat counselor the acclaimed training handbook written by some of the foremost authorities in medication assisted treatment programs from throughout the united states the 40 hour mat counselor education course may be completed entirely on line. Medications used in mat are approved by the food and drug administration fda and mat programs are clinically driven and tailored to meet each patient s needs. Includes seven all new chapters such as the annual career checkup and the 60 30 10 rule.

The counseling program does not have an official cut off score for admission and encourages applicants to view this as one piece of their overall application. What is medication assisted treatment mat. Federal statutes regulations and guidelines govern medication assisted treatment mat for opioid addiction. It contains materials to help counselors conduct intensive outpatient treatment sessions on relationships trauma body image and family roles.