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Alcohol SBIRT in EAP:
Integrating Evidence-based Practice
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Empirical
support exists for alcohol screening, brief intervention, and
referral to treatment (SBIRT) and follow-up in medical settings.
However, in workplace settings not enough is being done to
identify employees who don’t meet DSM criteria for an alcohol
use disorder yet drink in risky, harmful and hazardous ways.
Alcohol SBIRT within EAPs can give practitioners an opportunity
to reach millions of workers annually. Please join us to learn
how to implement an evidence-based practice that can be
integrated routinely and seamlessly in your EAP or private
practice.
This
presentation
will illustrate an evidence-based alcohol SBIRT approach which
can be integrated into EAP practice to identify and manage
hazardous and harmful alcohol use, and dependence among workers
and their families. Drs. Goplerud and McPherson will identify
brief, easy-to-use screening tools and levels of brief
intervention based on alcohol use risk; share pilot test
results; and discuss the Brief Intervention Group ("BIG")
Initiative focused on moving the EAP industry toward adoption of
evidence-based SBIRT as part of standard practice.
Learning Objectives:
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Attendees will learn about evidence-based brief alcohol
screening tools that can be integrated into routine EAP
practice in their internal EAPs to identify alcohol use risk
levels, and receive a copy of the AUDIT-C/AUDIT tools.
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Attendees will be able to relate appropriate levels of brief
intervention to level of alcohol use risk, and will learn to
use NIAAA developed resources to assist EAP clients to
commit to change unhealthy drinking patterns.
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Attendees will learn about user-friendly SBI program
performance measures they can use in their EAP to evaluate
their own SBI program.
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Attendees will learn about opportunities in the BIG
Initiative to participate in a learning collaborative with
other EAPs to institute routine alcohol screening and brief
interventions in their EAPs.
This presentation will include an interactive session during
which audience members can interact with the speakers and one
another on the topic of the audio conference.
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Featured Presenters:
Dr.
McPherson
and Dr.
Goplerud have been instrumental in shaping corporate and
government policies to support screening, brief intervention,
and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for substance use problems.
 Tracy L.
McPherson, Ph.D.
is an
Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Integrated
Behavioral Health Policy and Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol
Problems at George Washington University Medical Center. Over
the last 12 years, she has served as Project Director on
numerous workplace alcohol and drug abuse prevention projects
funded by NIH, NHTSA, and SAMHSA involving the development and
evaluation of substance use prevention and health promotion
education and training programs for both workplace practitioners
and employees. In the last five years her research has focused
on improving access to alcohol screening, brief intervention,
referral to treatment (SBIRT), and follow-up care through
evidence-based practice change in Employee/Member Assistance
Programs (EAP/MAP) and other workplace settings. Dr. McPherson
has successfully worked with employers and vendors (e.g., Aetna,
OptumHealth, ValueOptions) to adapt SBIRT protocols, implement
and evaluate SBIRT pilot programs, and adapt systems and
infrastructure to build capacity for broader dissemination. Dr.
McPherson co-leads with Dr. Eric Goplerud the “BIG Initiative”
www.EAPBIG.org – a learning collaborative which brings together
employers, business coalitions, national and regional EAPs and
behavioral healthcare companies, EAP professional associations,
pharmaceutical companies, drug testing vendors, clinicians,
substance abuse professionals, researchers, and federal
government representatives. The overarching aim of BIG is to
change the way the EAP profession addresses alcohol use
problems, by moving alcohol SBIRT into routine practice across
the entire industry. She has co-authored numerous publications
and presentations as well as serves on editorial review boards
of leading journals in the fields of worksite health promotion
and substance abuse prevention. Dr. McPherson is Chair of
EASNA’s Knowledge Transfer & Research Committee and an active
member of EAPA.
 Eric Goplerud,
Ph.D.
is a clinical
psychologist and research professor of health policy at George
Washington University School of Public Health. Since 2002, Dr.
Goplerud has directed Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, a
research program supported by grants from the Pew Charitable
Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, industry, and
various Federal agencies. He is also the Director of the Center
for Integrated Behavioral Health Policy at GW, and the Principal
Investigator on the Workplace SBI Project and “BIG” Initiative
sponsored by NHTSA and CSAT to implement and evaluate SBIRT
protocols in three national EAP pilot sites. Dr. Goplerud is
immediate past president of ACMHA: the College for Behavioral
Health Leadership. His primary work focuses on integration of
behavioral health into national health reform, improving access
and financing for behavioral health in primary and specialty
medicine, and engagement of businesses, health insurers and EAPs
to promote access to effective, affordable behavioral health
care. Dr. Goplerud has directed foundation, corporate and
government sponsored projects focused increasing access to
effective, affordable alcohol treatment. He led the successful
effort to secure AMA approval in January 2008 of alcohol and
drug screening and brief intervention (SBI) CPT Codes. Dr.
Goplerud chaired the National Quality Forum’s Technical Advisory
Panel that produced the consensus standards of evidence-based
substance use treatment, and he co-chairs the Joint Commission
on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO’s)
Technical Advisory Panel that designed and is field testing
alcohol and tobacco SBIRT performance measures for all hospital
admissions. Prior to working at George Washington University,
Dr. Goplerud held senior policy leadership with the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
 PDHs
This audio conference has been
approved by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission (EACC)
for 1.5 PDHs in Domain II. The CD recording of the audio
conference has also been approved by the EACC as a self-study
course.
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