Psychiatric Evaluation

The Psychiatric consultant will be available five hours weekly, will participate in treatment team meetings, sign treatment plans and will conduct medical/psychiatric evaluations as needed. The purpose of a psychiatric evaluation is to determine the existence of psychiatric conditions which would impede substance abuse treatment or to determine the need for ancillary psychiatric treatment or to determine the need for psychotropic medications. ARA recognizes that most substance abuse treatment must take place with the client in a drug-free state, but also realizes that some persons who seek treatment may also have psychiatric conditions that require a long term medical regimen.

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