director, center for substance abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, md; jane callahan, director, national community anti-drug coalition institute, community anti-drug coalitions of america, alexandria, va; jordan burnham, mental health advocate, active minds inc., washington, dc; dr. wendy greene, assistant director of trauma and critical care and program developer, screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment program, howard university hospital, washington, dc. fran, what is the definition of behavioral health, and how do we distinguish between prevention, early intervention, and treatment within that definition? the definition for behavioral health for samhsa is we are taking the substance abuse and mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, and we are encasing it within the disorder realm. so substance abuse, prevention, intervention, and treatment are exactly the same, same levels, and so is mental health. we are finding that mental health properties for prevention, especially, are very similar

u.s. department of health and human services [music] so, screening and brief intervention is what we call a secondary prevention approach. so, it is a way of intercepting people who might be already engaging in risky substance abuse behavior and trying to reduce their abuse and reduce the harm that they might experience from their substance use. we decided to do our intervention in this mental health clinic. and that's something that hadn't been done before, so we decided to use this very brief screening and brief intervention tool called the assist. it is the alcohol smoking and substance involvement screening test, which was developed by the world health organization. well, we use the assist results in intervention planning quite immediately; that is part of the beauty of the assist, that it has kind of a built-in intervention that, based on the score that is deduced from the eight questions of the assist, you are kind of guided to do a validating response, a brief intervention, or an intervention with kind of a referral to treatment or a discussion about kind of getting further treatme

u.s. department of health and human services. >>> hugh burrows back with dr. emmerson interim pastor as san francisco theological seminary. forgiveness, key to the creative life as your book is available now you can probably get it online. tell me about this book it has a preface by the president to have graduate theological unit in berkeley what is it about why did you write it? >> it go backseat to my coming to terms with the coming to terms my parents didn't make it in their marriage. i had to come to terms with that. they were separated a long time they never lived together again but after i had gotten started i am in the east my mother had been -- she took pictures and she was a photographer and coming back for one of her -- from one of her around the world trips stopped to see my dad in palo alto and the call i got was to say i want to tell you that your father and i have forgiven each other. and what that did to free me, to begin with, they had always allowed me to have a good relationship with the other i never got pitted against either one but i got s

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