One-Day Workshop on Thursday April 28, 2011, (10.00 am-16.00 pm)

Using the Measurement in the Addiction for Triage and Evaluation (MATE).

Gerard M., Schippers, Theo G. Broekman & Angela Buchholz

Patients entering psychiatric treatment, and in particular in the substance abuse treatment, deserve proper assessment, both at intake, to ensure adequate matching to levels of care and to treatment modules, and during and after treatment for monitoring and evaluation. The Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research (AIAR) developed in co-operation with Bureau Bêta in Nijmegen a new, European interview system: the MATE: Measurements in the Addiction for Triage & Evaluation. The MATE can be considered an alternative for the Addiction Severity Index (ASI; McLellan et al., 1992). The MATE is based on the WHO classifications ICD-10 & ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health). Its primary objectives are to obtain as much reliable and valid information as necessary, but as little as possible, in order to allocate patients to treatments of different intensities (triage) and to evaluate the treatment. In co-operation with the IFT [German Institute for Therapy Research, München], the DHS [German Council on Addiction Problems] and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), a German version has been developed and tested (Buchholz et al., 2009). The MATE has been presented in Addiction (Schippers e.a., 2010) and in Sucht (Buchholz, u. a., 2009).

Information and copies of the instrument can be accessed via: http://www.mateinfo.eu. We will introduce the MATE during this workshop and will train the attendees in the assessment and in the possibilities for the use of the MATE in different European countries. Participants will be provided beforehand with German and English versions of the MATE materials and the scientific papers.

References:
Buchholz, A., Rist, F., Küfner, H. & Kraus, L. (2009). Die deutsche Version des Measurements in the Addictions for Triage and Evaluation (MATE): Reliabilität, Validität und Anwendbarkeit. Sucht, 55 (4), 219-242.
Buchholz, A., Broekman, T., & Schippers, G. (2010).Anwendung der ICF in der Suchthilfe am Beispiel des MATE-ICN. Suchttherapie, 2010, 11, 1-6. DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1267210.
Schippers, G.M., Broekman, T.G., Buchholz, A. & Rutten, R. (2009). Introducing a new assessment instrument: The Measurements in the Addictions for Triage and Evaluation (MATE). Sucht, 55, 209-218.
Schippers, G.M., Broekman, T.G., Buchholz, A., Koeter, M., & van den Brink, W. (2010). Measurements in addictions for triage and evaluation (MATE): an instrument based on the World Health Organization family of international classifications. Addiction, 105, 862-871.

Registration:
The workshop is presented as a pre-conference activity for attendees of the 2011 EASAR conference (European Association of Substance Abuse Research, http://www.easar.com) but is open for all who are interested, willing to participate actively, and to study the manual of the MATE beforehand. Admission is free of charge. EASAR-attendees and non-attendees, register by e-mail to:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , cc This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it as soon as possible.

Location:
Tagungszentrum Starnberger See
im DGB-Bildungswerk e.V.
Ferdinand-von-Miller-Str. 7
82343 Niederpöcking
Germany

Accomodation:
Preconference-workshop-MATE-attendees transfer €150 (which covers accommodation for one night 27th to 28th of April and food. Register to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and an invoice will be sent to you).