This comprehensive clinical handbook provides virtually everything needed to plan, deliver, and evaluate effective treatment for persons with substance abuse problems and persistent mental illness.

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This comprehensive clinical handbook provides virtually everything needed to plan, deliver, and evaluate effective treatment for persons with substance abuse problems and persistent mental illness. From authors at the forefront of the dual disorders field, the book is grounded in decades of influential research. Presented are clear guidelines for developing integrated treatment programs, performing state-of-the-art assessments, and implementing a wide range of individual, group, and family interventions. Also addressed are residential and other housing services, involuntary interventions, vocational rehabilitation, and psychopharmacology for dual disorders. Throughout, the emphasis is on workable ways to combine psychiatric and substance abuse services into a cohesive, unitary system of care. Designed in a convenient 8½" x 11" format, the volume contains all needed assessment forms, treatment planning materials, and client handouts, most of which include permission to photocopy.

Size: 8 ½" x 11", 470 pages, paperback

I. Basics

1. Substance Abuse and Severe Mental Illness

2. Principles of Integrated Treatment

3. Basic Organizational Factors

II. The Assessment Process

4. Assessment I: Detection, Classification, and Functional Assessment

5. Assessment II: Functional Analysis and Treatment Planning

III. Individual Approaches

6. Stage-Wise Case Management

7. Motivational Interviewing

8. Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling

IV. Group Interventions

9. Persuasion Groups

10. Active Treatment Groups

11. Social Skills Training Groups

12. Self-Help Groups

V. Working with Families

13. Family Collaboration

14. Behavioral Family Therapy

15. Multiple-Family Groups

VI. Other Treatment Approaches

16. Residential Programs and Other Housing Options

17. Involuntary and Coerced Interventions

18. Vocational Rehabilitation

19. Psychopharmacology

VII. Research

20. Research on Integrated Dual-Disorder Treatment

· Epilogue: Avoiding Burnout and Demoralization

· Appendices:

A. Dual-Disorder Treatment Fidelity Scale

B. Educational Handouts

C. Assessment Instruments and Other Forms

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