Three Steps for Talking With Patients About Substance Use Disorder

Three Steps for Talking With Patients About Substance Use Disorder

When a patient with a substance use disorder comes in for a visit, talking to them about treating their addiction in a way that avoids the stigma that surrounds these disorders can be difficult. Learn how one physician approaches this conversation during her addiction consultations with patients.

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How to Talk About Substance Use Disorders with Your Patients

How to Talk About Substance Use Disorders with Your Patients

This article discusses how one physician in San Francisco approaches the conversation around preventing and treating substance use disorder with his patients while avoiding stigma in the process.

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Sustaining Improved Outcomes: A Toolkit

Sustaining Improved Outcomes: A Toolkit

This article discusses how one physician in San Francisco approaches the conversation around preventing and treating substance use disorder with his patients while avoiding stigma in the process.

Parent/Guardian Alone Time Policy Letter Examples

Parent/Guardian Alone Time Policy Letter Examples

This document contains various examples of customizable parent letters that can be used to explain your practice’s adolescent alone time policy.

Provider Script for Adolescent Alone Time

Provider Script for Adolescent Alone Time

This document contains examples of language or phrases that can be used to explain the need for alone time with adolescent patients to parents.

Minor Consent and Confidentiality for Sexual Health Services in California: A Training for Clinical Settings

Minor Consent and Confidentiality for Sexual Health Services in California: A Training for Clinical Settings

A free, on-demand training for California clinical settings that provides participants with an overview of CA laws that guarantee minors’ right to access confidential sexual health services and the roles that clinical practices and healthcare systems have in ensuring these protections.

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Tips for Protecting Youth Confidentiality

Tips for Protecting Youth Confidentiality

This document provides tips (some obvious, some not) for preserving patient privacy in a clinical setting, and minimizing embarrassment.

Confidentiality Best Practices

Confidentiality Best Practices

This document provides an overview of minor consent and confidentiality policy, law, and best practice considerations. Includes: the legal requirements for minor consent, strategies for communicating with parents and adolescents regarding confidentiality laws, and barriers, challenges, and strategies to implementing confidentiality laws.

Chlamydia Screening Toolkit

Chlamydia Screening Toolkit

This toolkit includes a series of training guides and resources to support the facilitation of interactive learning sessions focused on implementing chlamydia best practice recommendations.

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Chlamydia Screening Change Package

Chlamydia Screening Change Package

This document reviews best practice recommendations and suggested implementation strategies to increase chlamydia screening rates, specifically among Title X grantees.