| This 9 hour course provides
detailed information about confidentiality requirements for alcohol
and other drug professionals. Covers information about
the Code of
Federal Regulations: 42 C.F.R. Part 2, as well as new HIPAA standards.
Meets and exceeds the confidentiality requirements currently in place
for many state credentialing boards.
Goals/Objectives
By participating in this Distance Learning
Course the trainee will:
- Examine and identify the confidentiality laws and regulations
no in place for clients receiving alcohol/drug abuse treatment;
- Discuss the needs and requirements when dealing with
communicable diseases;
- Investigate the problems and issues
related to managed care and client information;
- Review new
requirements and issues related to the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996;
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Review common questions that arise when dealing with
confidentiality issues in treatment programming;
- Compare and
contrast The HIPAA Privacy Rule and 42 CFR Part 2.
Your Course Instructor:
Kevin R. Scheel
MS, MAC, LADC
Co-Founder, DLCAS
Kevin R. Scheel is a Masters prepared chemical dependency counselor
with more than twenty-three years of experience in the human service
field. He has served as the director of programs in the public
sector as well as in private care facilities, both in the profit and
not-for-profit arenas. He has been involved in the delivery of
education services to the field since 1986 as an instructor at
McLennan Community College and Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and
as a private training consultant with Hazelden. Mr. Scheel is the
author of "Alcohol: Chemistry & Culture," as well as a series of
education videotapes on the various drugs of abuse, published and
marketed by WRS Group, Inc. He has also created a preparation and
review manual that is currently in use by a variety of colleges and
universities in Texas, designed to aid students preparing for their
Texas chemical dependency credential.
While in Texas Kevin served as the Texas
Coordinator for the federally funded Project for Addiction Counselor
Training (PACT) program. For this project Mr. Scheel designed a 270
hour curriculum for beginning counselors, delivering over 45,000
hours of classroom training to 415 minority students. As a result of
his efforts, 268 of these students have gone on to obtain their
credentials to practice chemical dependency counseling in Texas.
Kevin also served in the position as
Coordinator for the Texas Addiction Training Center (currently the
Texas Addition Technology Transfer Center), a federally funded
project from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in Washington,
D.C. The goal of this project has been to increase the level of
addiction education to the various disciplines offering counseling
services to drug and alcohol affected clients. In Texas this project
worked with 8 major colleges and universities.
Kevin is one of the co-founders of the DLCAS.
He continues to be active as a writer/author of materials for this
training service.
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