Treating Co-Occurring Disorders: A Handbook for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Professionals (Haworth Addictions Treatment) (Haworth Addictions Treatment)

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

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.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Gary B Kaniuk, Psy.D.(Cermak Health Services)
Description:This is a treatment manual for professionals who are dealing with MISA (mentally ill, substance abusing) clients. Since providers are usually trained in one of these areas, this book will help acquaint them with both areas and how to make effective interventions.
Purpose:According to the authors, "by the early 1980's, it had become apparent that the mental health and substance abuse treatment systems had numerous clients. The purpose of this book is to examine how these dilemmas have been addressed, the treatment approaches that appear to be most effective for clients with multiple disorders, and how best to manage multifarious caseloads composed of individuals with and without co-occurring disorders." The book definitely meets the authors' objectives.
Audience:It appears clear that the book is written for practitioners and administrators working in the fields of mental health and/or substance abuse, but graduate students in clinical psychology could certainly benefit as well. The authors are credible authorities. Edward Hendrickson has been in the field since 1971 and Marilyn Schmal since 1974. Sharon Eckleberry serves on the Licensure Board for Social Work in Virginia and has authored articles on dual diagnosis.
Features:The book covers extensively dual-diagnosis issues. The authors begin with their philosophical viewpoint, the TAUT-SOAR Model, which gives practitioners a framework to build on to. It covers assessment, treatment, and case management. There are good chapters on measuring change and supervising staff with multifarious caseloads. The approach is pragmatic and healthcare providers can readily apply the concepts. The book is easy to read and covers the basics while the many case examples make it easy to learn.
Assessment:The number of MISA clients is growing exponentially. This book covers many of the most important areas in this field. The authors do not give simplistic answers and they understand the difficulty of working with such clients. In the chapter on promoting long-term stability, they provide this optimistic viewpoint: "The majority of this work is done in the early recovery and treatment-engaged phase; however, in some instances, important basic knowledge and skills must first be introduced before recovery can begin, and life crisis events may require additional recovery-management interventions after recovery is well established. Any return to substance use or psychiatric instability should be viewed as an opportunity to strengthen recovery skills rather than as a treatment failure" (pp. 177-178). It is in this spirit that I give the book a hearty thumbs-up.