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psychotherapy
- Treating Co-Occurring Disorders
A Handbook for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Professionals
You treat clients with mental health problems, clients with substance-related problems,
and clients who exhibit both. This single source will show you how to manage such a
diverse caseload!
Edward L. Hendrickson, MS, LMFT, LSATP
Clinical Supervisor, Arlington County Alcohol & Drug Program, Arlington, Virginia
Marilyn S. Schmal, MA, LPC, LSATP
Mental Health Therapist, Arlington County Mental Health Bureau, Arlington, Virginia
Sharon C. Eckleberry, LCSW, LSATP
Division Director, Adult Community Services Division, Fairfax County, Chantilly, Virginia
In the real world, caseloads include clients with substance abuse, psychiatric, and
co-occurring disorders. Here you'll find reliable information and informative case
examples to help you manage your caseload more effectively!
Caseloads that include mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders are
becoming more and more common, yet most texts in this area focus on one specific type of
disorder. This unique handbook reflects the reality facing mental health and substance
abuse professionals in their daily practices, focusing on how to effectively manage
caseloads that include individuals with vastly differing levels of functioning. Providing
diagnostic criteria, treatment regimens, and a great deal more, Treating Co-Occurring
Disorders: A Handbook for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Professionals is an
exceptional single source for useful information on handling all of these types of cases
and clients.
Treating Co-Occurring Disorders: A Handbook for Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Professionals describes the psychiatric and substance use disorders that commonly co-occur
and examines the evolution of co-occurring concepts and treatment. It provides an overview
of relapse prevention and symptom management models for use with clients with co-occurring
disorders and another covering mental health and substance abuse recovery movements.
Treating Co-Occurring Disorders: A Handbook for Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Professionals will bring you closer to topics that impact day-to-day practice, including:
- conducting comprehensive assessments for individuals with psychiatric
and substance use symptoms
- providing individual, group, family, and case management
interventions for clients of differing levels of function who exhibit psychiatric and
substance abuse symptoms
- identifying standard interventions for all clients with co-occurring
disorders
- measuring change and establishing reasonable treatment outcome
performance standards for these clients
- supervising staff who work with multifarious caseloads
From the authors: “Currently, most mental health and substance abuse professionals
are aware of how to effectively assess and treat individuals with diagnoses for which they
were trained. However, few therapists exclusively have clients who manifest only
psychiatric or substance abuse symptoms. This book provides information and case examples
concerning how to effectively manage a caseload composed of individuals with substance
abuse, psychiatric, and co-occurring disorders. It presents strategies for providing
comprehensive assessments for these individuals. Additionally, it describes how to provide
effective case management as well as individual, group, and family treatment for
individuals with multiple disorders and levels of function, and provides information on
interacting effectively with the mental health and substance abuse recovery
communities.”
Tables, figures, and a generous portion of intriguing case descriptions will help you
apply the information in this useful volume to your own work.
ORDER CODE: HP-0789018020-B
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