101124: Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders

About the Course:

This course adopts a program perspective to examine both outpatient and residential settings for treating clients with co-occurring disorders, highlighting promising treatment models that have emerged both within the substance abuse field and elsewhere. It discusses various treatment approaches and models available to those working in substance abuse settings. This course is taken from Chapter 9 of the SAMHSA publication Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders. Adobe pages covered are 274-279.

Publication Date:

2005

Author

SAMHSA

About the Authors:

Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders was published as Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 42 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about substance abuse treatment for persons with co-occurring disorders in special settings and specific populations. It is appropriate for an intermediate level of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Identify the substance-induced mental disorders defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

2. Discuss the substance-induced mental disorders often associated with the most commonly abused substances.

3. Describe factors to be considered when diagnosing a client with independent or substance-induced mental illness.