Treating Concurrent Disorders

A Guide for Counsellors

edited by W.J. Wayne Skinner

tagged: counseling, mental health, assessment, testing & measurement

Description

This practical guide helps addiction and mental health professionals understand the relationship between substance use and mental health problems, and offers treatment options for different combinations of co-occurring problems. Divided into three sections, covering assessment, practical applications, and tools and techniques, this guide includes topics such as:

helping clients and families
providing specialized services to clients
improving existing services to better serve clients

It champions collaborative, approaches, with the goal of achieving more responsive client care.

About the Author

W.J. Wayne Skinner

Wayne Skinner, MSW, RSW, is deputy clinical director of CAMH’s Ambulatory Care and Structured Treatment Program, where he heads the Wayne Skinner, MSW, RSW, is deputy clinical director of CAMH’s Ambulatory Care and Structured Treatment Program, where he heads the Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario. He teaches in the Department of Psychiatry and the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He edited Treating Concurrent Disorders (2005) and co-authored A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders (2007), Substance Abuse in Canada (2010) and Motivational Interviewing for Concurrent Disorders (2013).

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