This volume provides the tools professionals need to help adult and adolescent survivors of childhood abuse and other traumas who struggle with addictive disorders. Systematically integrating mental health paradigms with disease models of addiction, this easy-to-implement model combines psychotherapeutic techniques with 12-step recovery practices for effective assessment and treatment.

Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Evans, Katie

Sullivan, J. Michael

Mental Health

The Guilford Press

This volume provides the tools professionals need to help adult and adolescent survivors of childhood abuse and other traumas who struggle with addictive disorders. Systematically integrating mental health paradigms with disease models of addiction, this easy-to-implement model combines psychotherapeutic techniques with 12-step recovery practices for effective assessment and treatment.

This important and timely volume provides counselors and case managers with a general introduction to the assessment, treatment, and management of clients with a dual diagnosis (someone with both a substance-abuse or dependency problem and a co-existing psychiatric disorder). The authors' goal is to provide the reader with a greater understanding of the issues that dual-diagnosis individuals present for professionals and to offer practcal concepts and techniques that have been found useful in working with this population. This book will be of inerest to mental health and chemical dependency professionals as well as other professionals who encounter dual-diagnosis clients, such as court and child protective workers, physicians, psychologists, nurses , and social workers. This book is also an excellent text for advanced course work in either the field of addictions studies or mental health.

Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser ,FIRST EDITION

Psychology & Counseling

Updated for today's health care climate, the revised and expanded second edition of this popular volume offers a thorough introduction to clinical work with this difficult-to-treat population. Providing a unique synthesis of chemical dependency and mental health models, the book articulates a framework for assessment and treatment and describes a range of effective counseling and motivational strategies for adolescents and adults. The second edition is fully compatible with DSM-IV , and includes discussions of the latest developments in treatment, sample treatment plans, increased coverage of ways to incorporate 12-step concepts into mental health interventions, and a new section on trauma-based disorders in addicted female adolescents. The practical utility of the volume is enhanced by clinical vignettes, clearly presented tables, and reproducible forms.

Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser

Updated for today's health care climate, the revised and expanded second edition of this popular volume offers a thorough introduction to clinical work with this difficult-to-treat population. Providing a unique synthesis of chemical dependency and mental health models, the book articulates a framework for assessment and treatment and describes a range of effective counseling and motivational strategies for adolescents and adults. The second edition includes discussions of the latest developments in treatment, sample treatment plans, increased coverage of ways to incorporate 12-step concepts into mental health interventions, and a new section on trauma-based disorders in addicted female adolescents. The practical utility of the volume is enhanced by clinical vignettes, clearly presented tables, and reproducible forms.

Addiction & Recovery

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Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma

Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma

Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser ,FIRST EDITION

Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser

Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser