Screening

Screening is a way for healthcare providers to quickly understand a patient’s level of risk from harmful behaviors or negative outcomes. It can focus on substance use, mental health, or other concerns. Most of the time, screening is conducted using a set of questions (“screening tool”) designed to learn more about a patient. To read more about screening, and for an extensive list of screening tools, click below.

Screening

Brief Intervention

A brief intervention (BI) is a short conversation. When screening indicates that a patient or client has a level of risk beyond “minimal” or “no” risk, their provider may attempt to initiate a BI. While there are many different approaches to BIs, they are usually intended to intervene around motivation or ambivalence to change. To learn more and access resources for BIs, including printable drug-specific trifolds, click below.

Brief Intervention

Implementation

Successfully implementing SBIRT in your organization requires more than training your staff. While there are many ways to implement SBIRT, we have compiled lists of questions and processes that can help your organization plan to use this approach. We also offer informational materials you can modify and pass out as well as self-paced SBIRT training modules focused entirely on implementation. To learn more, click below.

Implementation