This workbook provides clinicians with tools to help consumers with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders (dual diagnoses) acquire basic living skills. It focuses upon stress management, time management, activities of daily living, and social-skills training.

The ideas and exercises in this book help clinicians integrate Motivational Interviewing and Stages-of-Change into daily practice. This book is a practical and effective resource for individual and group sessions, adolescents, families, culturally diverse clients, and dually diagnosed clients.

This manual helps therapists teach groups of individuals with schizophrenia how to avoid alcohol and other drugs, recognize signs that they may be headed toward relapse, and build healthy habits and healthy pleasures into their daily routines.

The 2009 edition of Principles of Addiction Medicine provides a comprehensive overview of the diagnosis and treatment of addictive disorders, as well as the management of co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions. A resource for nurse practitioners, social workers, and addiction counselors, as well as providers of residential and outpatient treatment.

This workbook provides easy, step-by-step techniques for calming the body and mind in an increasingly overstimulated world. It is highly regarded by therapists and their clients and remains the go-to source for stress reduction strategies.

Since its first publication in 1987, this book has become the first choice of therapists and readers looking for a comprehensive, self-care approach to improving self-image, increasing personal power, and defining core values.

This popular manual presents an empirically tested format and ready-made curricula for skills-training groups in a range of settings. Part 1 takes therapists and counselors step by step through assessing clients' existing skills, teaching new skills, and managing common treatment challenges.

This book synthesizes the latest theory and research about the process of changing addictive behavior, helping the clinician more effectively conceptualize and address the needs of particular clients who use or abuse alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. It offers concrete guidance for tailoring interventions to consumers who have varying levels of motivation or readiness to change.

The book was prepared for mental health administrators who are organizing and implementing substance-abuse treatment services for people with dual disorders. It reviews and cites the research findings from dual disorders service demonstrations and research projects.