Treating HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse
Risk Assessment and Reduction

Newly revised (August 2005) and expanded - now a 6 hour course that provides the most current information regarding HIV and AIDS as it relates to treatment  and recovery needs of HIV/AIDS infected substance abusers, including risk assessment and reduction information.

Goals/Objectives

This course will work to provide you with treatment and recovery issues as they relate to HIV and AIDS infected substance abusers. This course is the second in a series of courses that is designed to assist clinicians in keeping abreast of the latest developments in this important treatment area.

By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will:

1. Examine the problems and issues related to treating HIV/AIDS infected substance abusers.
2. Explore treatment means and methods to provide high-quality service to this population.
3. Understand the mental health issues that require time and attention in the treatment process.
4. Examine the counselors role in promoting risk management and risk reduction behaviors with clients;
5. Identify key legal issues that center around substance abuse care and treatment;
6. Identify treatment approaches being utilized to provide care to this population.
7. Review primary and secondary prevention approaches through the use of risk management and reduction techniques.

Your Course Instructor:
Kevin R. Scheel
MS, MAC, LMFT
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 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.

In addition to his role as a founder of the DLCAS, Kevin is currently serving as the Director of Educational Services for the DLCAS.