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Depression. Schizophrenia. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Millions of individuals diagnosed with psychiatric or emotional disorders must battle an equally menacing and powerful disease-chemical dependency. First published in 1993, Dual Disorders is the leading text on the biological and psychological relationship between mental illness and addiction.

New this spring, the third edition of this Hazelden best-seller has been updated to include the latest research, information about new medications, and an explanation of new diagnostic criteria. ... Read more

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good book
covers basic areas all therapists should know. interesting reading for those who find counseling interesting. well written with clear and easy understanding.

Standard
Extensive, but probably your standard graduate level counseling textbook on the complex subject of co-occurring disorders (COD).Clear and to the point, no frills overview of the topic and reference to provide sound care of COD, the text offers a discussion of COD for each of the mental health conditions found in the DSM IV.If mental illness requires involved assessment and treatment and if substance abuse the same, dual diagnosis is all that much more involved.This is your standard text for COD for students and entry-level counselors in the field.

Cutting Edge Information
Dennis Daily has done it again.This thrid edition is insightful and presents complex information in an easy to understand manner.As a mental health treatment professional I find Dr. Daley's work a great asset to my treatment planning.

The Gold Standard- Resource on this Topic
You will not find a more comprehensive resource on dual-disorders than this brilliant work by Daley and Moss from the famed Hazelden company.

Starting with an overview of what encompasses a dual-disorder, moving to the stages of change, then onto tretment of individuals with mood, personality, and psychotic disorders, this book is thorough without being pedantic, and comprehensive, without being overwhelming.]

For use by the advanced graduate student and the clinician. A definite "keeper." ... Read more

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Collection of review articles highlighting the top science and recent developments in the field of addiction.

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ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member ... Read more

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The correlation between schizophrenia and substance abuse in psychology is recognized as a growing issue, yet it is one that many practitioners are often ill-prepared to address. Behavioral Treatment for Substance Abuse in People with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness addresses the specific challenges faced by the clinician treating individuals with co-occurring schizophrenia and substance abuse disorders. Designed as a treatment manual for mental health professionals, the book incorporates various treatment components, from motivational interviewing and social skills training to education, problem solving, and relapse prevention.

The book presents clearly established guidelines for these treatment modes and utilizes both case examples and fictional situations to present a practical, hands-on approach. Readers will profit directly from the lessons in the book, which offers the clinician an invaluable model from which to base a treatment plan.

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Practical Guide in Recovering from BPD
This book gave me specific steps to overcome bpd. It was great to have the written exercises upon which to journal. I was able to guage what needed to be learned and what had already been incorporated into my emotional growth. It great validation that I wasn't a nut or rage-aholic. I use medication to take the edge off many disruptive behaviors. yet without this book I wouldn't be in the recovery zone.

Help Yourself and Your Therapist
Every therapist who treats people with borderline personality disorder should use this book.It's an organized way to move through steps necessary for the recovery process.Would also work great in a group therapy setting with an "AA" type approach.I would recommend this to anyone recovering from this disorder.

Real help, practical advise
This book is an excellent guide for understanding borderline personality disorder and addictive behaviors. It clearly outlines the recovery steps someone with these disorders must take to live their life again.This book is very helpful to read as a family member of someone with bpd, as it gives you insight into how to have a relationship with someone recovering from borderline and other addictive behaviors.The book is well written and easy to read with practical advise.

Straight forward and insightful.
I read this book to better understand my now ex-boyfriend. It helped me to not take personally his actions and gave me understanding and empathy. It will help a loved one of BPD to listen and react in ways that can help facilitate the journey to recovery. Although the book could not save our relationship, I am hopeful because he is now reading this book. The book offers steps to recovery through detailed exercises. The authors covered every area to guide the person with BPD to recovery. Awesome book!

Great Book!
As a mental health therapist who specializes in treating BPD, I use this book in my BPD Group Therapy.The women may not recognize their own behaviors in themselves, but they can see their behaviors in others.The excerises are great and when done in a group setting, they offer support and validation from other members.

Although other research or treatments are not mentioned, it is a tool that can work well for some BPD people.I have found it helpful and so have the women who have used the book.I do use DBT at times along with the book, but for the most part, the book is the foundation of the Group.

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Part of the new Treating Addictions series, Treating Drug Problems is full of practical information on assessing, diagnosing, and treating drug problems, and represents an invaluable tool for anyone who works with clients experiencing drug dependence or addiction. The popular series format includes assessment scales; tables, checklists, and diagrams; features such as "Dos and Don'ts" and "Important Things to Remember"; problem-solving scenarios; "Self-Improvement Techniques"; and suggested resources, including an annotated bibliography and lists of contacts such as self-help groups, residential and outpatient treatment programs, support groups, and websites. ... Read more

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Enthusiastically recommended reading for students, educators, and professionals in the field of substance abuse treatment.
Edited by psychiatry professors Stephen T. Higgins, Kenneth Silverman, and Sarah H. Heil, Contingency Management in Substance Abuse Treatment is an anthology of essays by learned contributors concerning the contingency management (CM) approach to substance abuse treatment. CM applies a system of incentives and disincentives to help people meet their goals on the road to recovery; a simple yet practical and strongly needed precept especially when the natural benefits of stopping drug use are slow to materialize while the harsh consequences of stopping use (especially withdrawal symptoms) manifest immediately. The essays are organized around a core, comprehensive theme. Issues in treating addiction to different substances (cocaine, opioids, marijuana, tobacco, & alcohol) are covered, as are the unique challenges involved in treating the homeless, pregnant and postpartum women, people with mental illness, and adolescents. The final section discusses a more varied range of issues, such as "Lowering Costs in Drug Abuse Treatment Clinics", "Employment-Based Reinforcement in the Treatment of Drug Addiction", and "Contingency Management in Adult Criminal Drug Courts", and more. Above all, Contingency Management in Substance Abuse Treatment explores how CM can be and is used with an astonishing degree of success, scrutinizing lessons learned from practical implication in community treatment clinics and offering suggestions for maximizing resources and foster positive innovations. Enthusiastically recommended reading for students, educators, and professionals in the field of substance abuse treatment.
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Substance abuse is one of society's most serious problems. Drugs seem to be readily available in virtually every country in the world. Substance abuse is the overindulgence in and dependence of a drug or other chemical leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's physical and mental health, or the welfare of others. The disorder is characterised by a pattern of continued pathological use of a medication, non-medically indicated drug or toxin, that results in repeated adverse social consequences related to drug use, such as failure to meet work, family, or school obligations, interpersonal conflicts, or legal problems.There are on-going debates as to the exact distinctions between substance abuse and substance dependence, but current practice standard distinguishes between the two by defining substance dependence in terms of physiological and behavioural symptoms of substance use, and substance abuse in terms of the social consequences of substance use. This book presents the latest research in the field. ... Read more

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There is an urgent demand for treatment protocols designed specifically for women who abuse drugs, commit crimes, and receive treatment in correctional settings. Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Women in Correctional Settings answers the clamor by targeting the biological, psychological, and social roots of female substance abuse and crime. Designed as an adjunct to the Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment: Strategies for Self-Improvement and Change (SSC) curriculum, this provider’s guide uses female-focused examples, exercises, role plays, and content enhancements that pinpoint women’s treatment issues. ... Read more

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Leading clinicians discuss the latest evidence-based approaches to working with families that have an addicted or substance abusing member

Family Intervention in Substance Abuse: Current Best Practices gathers together in one easy-to-read volume the most effective family-based clinical approaches to work with families and the difficult issues of substance abuse. The field’s most respected and best known clinicians discuss the latest interventions that prove most effective and how to easily integrate them into clinical practice. This unique text is ideal for clinical trainers and professors working with students in the addictions and family therapy fields.

Family Intervention in Substance Abuse: Current Best Practices provides students, practicing professionals, and educators with a range of clinical strategies from engaging resistant substance abusers into treatment, to therapy from a systemic viewpoint, to relapse prevention. This essential text comprehensively discusses nine of the most current and evidence-based approaches to working with families that have an addicted or substance abusing member. Each chapter contains basic theoretical descriptions, case applications, practical points for implementation, reviews of the outcome studies, and extensive bibliographies.

Topics discussed in Family Intervention in Substance Abuse: Current Best Practices include:

• “Family systems” interventions
• Motivational Interviewing
• stages of family recovery from addiction
• integration of clinical work with Twelve Step programs
• strategies for engaging reluctant alcohol and other drug abusers
• working with adolescent alcohol and other drug abusers
• behavioral couples work for alcoholism and drug abuse
• and more!

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Pagliaros’ Comprehensive Guide to Drugs and Substances of Abuse, 2nd Edition has been completely revised, updated, and rewritten as needed. The second edition is an all monograph format and includes twelve new monographs. This is a current, complete, and accurate compendium of information on over one hundred drugs and substances of abuse. Monographs include names (chemical, brand, street), pharmacologic classification, brief overview, dosage forms and route of administration, mechanism of central nervous system action, pharmacodynamics/pharmacokinetics, current approved indications, desired action/reason for personal use, toxicity (acute, chronic, pregnancy and lactation), abuse potential, withdrawal syndrome, and overdosage.
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The unique theme of this book is multidisciplinary partnership. It includes contributions from a broad range of healthcare professionals and user advocates, with the common desire to share their perspective of developing primary care services. Together they provide an example of a multi-disciplinary partnership, and a powerful force for change. The reader is encouraged to enhance and develop their skills in providing effective assessments, treatments and care plans through first hand accounts from the authors' experiences including special sections on crack cocaine, alcohol problems, dual diagnosis and homelessness. This is furthered by a discussion of the context of care including the recent changes to the policy making agenda of the National Treatment Agency and the new GP Contract. Substance Misuse in Primary Care is a vital reference source not only for GPs but for the entire primary care team.Primary care practitioners, practice nurses, health visitors, midwives, specialist addictions nurses, counsellors, psychologists, medical registrars, student nurses, health and mental health service managers, social workers, staff at drop-in clinics, probation officers and all professionals who work with substance misusers will find this book invaluable. ... Read more

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Substance misuse and its pervasive problems is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professionals today. With heightened political and policy emphasis on all aspects of substance misuse, it is paramount that professionals remain up-to-date on current issues and their responsibilities. Based on research and evidence, this book provides a sound basis for grounded and innovative practice. Leading international contributors outline holistic and specialist approaches to policy and practice, and highlight the shift in emphasis from immediate risk minimisation to long-term recovery, the importance of prevention and the pivotal role of workforce development. Issues surrounding work with children and families affected by substance misuse are explored, and ways of implementing new approaches revealed. The book also looks at the impact of the smoking ban in Scotland, and suggests ways to support tobacco use cessation. This book is essential reading for all front-line practitioners working with substance misusers, including social work, health professionals and counsellors.This topical series examines areas of particular interest to those in social and community work and related fields. Each book draws together different aspects of the subject, highlighting relevant research and drawing out implications for policy and practice. This title includes Information on Drugs and Drug Services to Members of Black and Minority Ethnic Communities by Jane Fountain, University of Central Lancashire; Wider Prevention - Poverty and Social Exclusion by James Egan, Head of Policy and Practice, Scottish Drugs Forum; Part Five Integrated Services and Workforce Development; Integrated Services by Neil Hunter, Joint General Manager, Glasgow Addiction Services; and, Messages for the Workforce by Joy Barlow. ... Read more

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Family Behavior Therapy (FBT) is an evidence-based treatment that helps adult patients address substance abuse as well as coexisting problem behaviors, including family dysfunction, employment, and mood disorders. Donohue and Allen are the premier researchers and practitioners of FBT, and their book is the first to provide the practical, step-by-step guidance needed to use this cost-effective intervention method with clients. It contains descriptions of each component of the treatment in addition to case examples, worksheets, and handouts. Counselors, therapists, and social workers will appreciate this "how-to" behavioral approach to therapy. ... Read more

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The only comprehensive book on drugs and substances of abuse written specifically for health care providers! A timely and authoritative compilation of current available data concerning the status, trends, and individual pharmacology of drugs and substances of abuse in North America. Features more than 100 drug monographs all listed in alphabetical order to facilitate rapid access to necessary data. ... Read more

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Great Resource
This book provides A LOT of detailed inormation on A LOT of drugs.It is a great resource for anyone studying drug chemistry. ... Read more