Terms and Acronyms DDAP
Terms and Acronyms DDAP Drug & Alcohol Program, Substance Abuse SA
American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) The ASAM Criteria Fourth Edition is a comprehensive set of standards and decision rules that use a holistic, person-centered approach to determining the appropriate level of care and developing treatment plans for patients with addiction and co-occurring conditions.
Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy (CBT): is a type of short-term treatment that can be highly effective for many disorders. It is a form of treatment that focuses on examining the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/cognitive-behaviora
Co-occurring Disorders (COD): People who have substance use/addictive disorders as well as mental health disorders are diagnosed as having co-occurring disorders, or dual disorders. This is also sometimes called a dual diagnosis.
Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT): Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) teaches family and friends effective strategies for helping their loved one to change and for feeling better themselves. CRAFT works to affect the loved one’s behavior by changing the way the family interacts with him or her.
Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST): The drug abuse and screening test is one of the most widely used screening test for drug abuse and addiction
Evidence-Based Practices (EBP): Evidence-based practices are the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise. You can look for a treatment program that uses evidence-based practices, which means the methods used to treat your loved one has evidence that it works.
Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPDST): is a comprehensive and preventive child health program for individuals under the age of 21.
Fee for Service (FFS): A method in which doctors and other health care providers are paid for each service performed. Examples of services include tests and office visits.
Functional Family Therapy (FFT): is a family-based prevention and intervention program for high-risk youth. It addresses complex and multidimensional problems in clinical therapy that is flexibly structured and culturally sensitive.
Health Choices: The Health Choices Program is the name of one of Pennsylvania's mandatory managed care programs for Medical Assistance recipients.
High-Fidelity Wraparound (HFW): High-Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) is a youth-guided and family-driven planning process that follows a series of steps to help youth and their families realize their hopes and dreams. More information can be found at www.yftipa.org
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA): requires protection of Protected Health Information (PHI) and limits the disclosure of this information without the consent of the individual. Certain department programs are covered by these HIPAA regulations.
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO): requires you to go to doctors, other health care providers, or hospitals on the plan's list, unless you need emergency care.
Intensive Case Management (ICM): When you have completed treatment, you may still have other needs which can make continued recovery difficult if they are not resolved. Intensive Case Management is a no-cost, voluntary program where these concerns are addressed with professional direction and advocacy
Intensive Outpatient (IOP): An intensive outpatient program (IOP) is a kind of treatment service and support program
Medical Assistance (MA): is a public insurance system in PA with eligibility based on income and other criteria, including health status. It is jointly funded by the federal and state governments and administered by state governments.
Motivational Enhancement Techniques (MET): employs a variation of Motivational Interviewing (MI) to analyze and dissect feedback gained from client sessions. MI focuses on re-patterning client behavior that is the result of ambiguous and undefined thoughts. This form of therapy is presented in a direct and client-targeted manner that strives to transform undesired behaviors.
Motivational Interviewing (MI): is a form of collaborative conversation for strengthening a person’s own motivation and commitment to change. It’s a person–centered counseling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change by paying particular attention to the language of change.
https://motivationalinterviewing.org/understanding-motivational-interviewing
Out Patient Services: a patient whose treatment does not require an overnight stay in a hospital or clinic. This could be therapy, medicine management, etc.
The Pennsylvania Association of County Drug and Alcohol Administrators (PACDAA) is a professional association that represents the Single County Authorities (SCAs) across the commonwealth who receive state and federal dollars through contracts with the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP), to plan, coordinate, programmatically and fiscally manage and implement the delivery of drug and alcohol prevention, intervention, and treatment services at the local level. https://www.pacdaa.org/
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The diagnosis may be given when a group of symptoms, such as disturbing recurring flashbacks, avoidance or numbing of memories of the event, and hyperarousal continue for more than a month after the occurrence of a traumatic event.
Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT): is a behavioral self-control program that teaches individuals with substance addiction how to anticipate and cope with the potential for relapse.
Residential Treatment Facility (RTF): sometimes called a rehab, is a live-in health care facility providing therapy for substance abuse, mental illness, or other behavioral issues.
Single County Authority on Drug and Alcohol (SCA): There are a wide variety of substance and alcohol abuse services available to children and adults in Pennsylvania. Community substance abuse programs are administered through county program offices called Single County Authorities The county SCA determines a person's eligibility for service funding, assesses the need for treatment or other services, and makes referrals to appropriate programs to match treatment and/or service needs.
System of Care (SOC) PA Care Partnership: is an organizational philosophy and framework that involves collaboration across agencies, families, and youth for the purpose of improving services and access and expanding the array of coordinated community-based, culturally and linguistically competent services and supports for children and adults. https://www.pacarepartnership.org/
Simple Screening Instrument (SSI): used to initiate the process of assessment by identifying a client's possible problems and determining whether he or she needs a comprehensive assessment routine screening for alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23754847/
Trauma Informed Care (TIC): is an organizational structure and treatment framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10197231/
Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP): is a collection of best-practice guidelines for the treatment of substance abuse. These monographs draw upon the experience and knowledge of experts in clinical practice, research, and administration.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK82999/
Acronyms:
AA: Alcoholics Anonymous
AOD: Alcohol and other Drugs
ATOD Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs
AOS: Addiction only services
ASAM: American Society of Addiction Medicine
ASI: Addiction Severity Index
BH - Behavior Health
CAC –Certified Addictions Counselor
CPA - Commonwealth Prevention Alliance
COD- Co-Occurring Disorders
CSAT- Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
DASPOP -Drug and Alcohol Service Providers of Pennsylvania
DDAP —Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs
DSM-V: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition
DUI: Driving under the influence
JPO — Juvenile Probation Office:
NA: Narcotics Anonymous
NAR - Naranon
SA- Substance Abuse