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

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.