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Designing, implementing, and managing treatment services for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders: blueprints for action
- Author:
- HENDRICKSON Edward L.
- Publisher:
- Haworth
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 234p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton
Practitioner Hendrickson noted already by the early 1990s that he and his colleagues were encountering more and more cases in which clients were dealing with both substance abuse and mental health disorders. Here he provides a broad overview for mental health professionals so they can begin to ask and answer questions about their program's mission, resource utilization, staff expertise, design, management, funding and effectiveness. He describe the grown of this combined need for treatment, including essential qualities of an effective treatment program, means of getting started, including identifying a target population, planning, and implementing a program, and conducting day-to-day management, including hiring and training clinical staff and clinical supervisors, program management, operating within a larger system, and ensuring service survival.
Treating co-occurring disorders: a handbook for mental health and substance abuse professionals
- Authors:
- HENDRICKSON Edward L., SCHMAL Marilyn S., EKLEBERRY Sharon C
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 243p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
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 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. The book 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. Topics include: 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; and measuring change and establishing reasonable treatment outcome performance standards for these clients supervising staff who work with multifarious caseloads.