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Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling, The Living In Balance Counseling Approach
Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health Elizabeth Driscoll Jorgensen and Richard Salwen 1. OVERVIEW, DESCRIPTION, AND RATIONALE 1.1 General Description of Approach This chapter describes a day treatment model for adolescent drug abusers with a comorbid psychiatric disorder, with emphasis on those aspects of the individual counselor's relationship with the...
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Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling, Description of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Approach to Problem Drinking
Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health Scott D. Miller 1. OVERVIEW, DESCRIPTION, AND RATIONALE 1.1 General Description of Approach ? The Solution-Focused Model is a brief therapy approach developed over the past 20 years at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, WI. The model continues to evolve and be applied to a variety of presenting problems and...
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SECTION II The Conceptual Framework
National Dialogue on Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders TABLE OF CONTENTS: ...
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Dual Diagnosis: An Overview
Dual Diagnosis: An Overview Research and study of the brain is beginning to unlock the mystery of dual disorders. For years the psychiatric field has either ignored dual diagnosis (a dual diagnosis was impossible prior to DSM III due to exclusionary criteria and DSM I & II forbidding' multiple diagnoses), or treated personality as the underlying cause of substance abuse.' The addiction field believed abstinence from mood altering drugs would cause the...
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Assessment and Treatment of Patients with Coexisting Mental Illness and Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Chapter 4 -- Linkages For Mental Health and AOD Treatment Overview Conventional boundaries between single-focus agencies have impeded the clinical progress of patients who have psychiatric disorders and alcohol and other drug (AOD) use disorders The treatment of patients with dual disorders is a clinical challenge, as well as a systems challenge,...
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Chapter 4 -- Linkages For Mental Health and AOD Treatment
Chapter 9 -- Pharmacologic Management Pharmacologic Risk Factors Addiction is not a fixed and rigid event. Like psychiatric disorders, addiction is a dynamic process, with fluctuations in severity, rate of progression, and symptom manifestation and with differences in the speed of onset. Both disorders are greatly influenced by several factors, including genetic susceptibility, environment, and pharmacologic influences. Certain people have a high risk for these...
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Chapter 9 -- Pharmacologic Management
Appendix A -- Bibliography Africa, B., and Schwartz, S.R. Schizophrenic disorders. In: Goldman, H.H., ed. Review of General Psychiatry, Third Edition. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton & Lange, 1992. pp. 226-241. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1987. American Psychiatric Association. DSM-IV...
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Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling, Introduction and Overview
Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health Patricia Owen 1. OVERVIEW, DESCRIPTION, AND RATIONALE 1.1 General Description of Approach ? The Minnesota Model approach is typically characterized by a thorough and ongoing assessment of all aspects of the client and of multimodal therapeutic approaches. It may include group and individual therapy, family education...
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Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling, Minnesota Model: Description of Counseling Approach
Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health Fred Sipe 1. OVERVIEW, DESCRIPTION, AND RATIONALE 1.1 General Description of Approach ? This approach to counseling is based on the belief that a condition of susceptibility to chemical addiction exists prior to the first use, sometimes referred to as a "genetic predisposition." It is also based on the belief that...
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