Clinical Monitoring to Facilitate Continuous Care for Substance Abusing Clients
Substance-Related Disorders, Mental Disorders
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Substance-Related Disorders focused on measuring Web-based, HIV Assessment, Outreach, Retention, Substance Abuse Treatment
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Client enrolled in outpatient treatment at participating facility and assigned to participating counselor.
- Counselor employed at participating facility.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Client unable to speak English.
- Client too cognitively impaired to give informed consent.
- Clients who do not wish to be audio-recorded during individual sessions.
Sites / Locations
- Genesis Counseling Centers, Inc.
- Genesis Counseling Centers, Inc.
- New Journeys In Recovery
- Thomas Jefferson University IOP
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
RecoveryTrack - Extended Care (RT-E)
Treatment as Usual (TAU)
Counselors will conduct monitoring and feedback sessions using the RecoveryTrack-Extended Care (RT-E) web-based monitoring system for clients newly admitted to Intensive Outpatient (IOP) treatment. Counselors will be instructed to document their reminders, contact attempts, and scheduling of RT-E appointments within a Contact Log incorporated into RT-E. All RT-E sessions will be audio recorded.
Counselors will conduct standard treatment during IOP/OP in this condition. Exceptions to this condition are that counselors will: audio record their first 3 biweekly and subsequent 7 monthly individual in-person sessions; document on a Contact Log outreach attempts; and complete a Counselor Activity Log for client participants. There are several steps that counselors typically take when a client misses a session. Clients are called to reschedule for the same week, if the client doesn't return for their next scheduled session, the counselor sends a letter asking the client to return, etc.