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Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders : A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment by Jonathan D Avery; John W Barnhill; American Psychiatric Publishing is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<P>Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment provides a clinically detailed, evidence-based, and exhaustive examination of a topic rarely plumbed in psychiatry texts, despite the fact that co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders are common. The authors argue for a more holistic and integrated approach, calling for clinicians to tactfully but persistently evaluate patients for a broad range of co-occurring disorders before determining appropriate treatment. Focusing on a substance use disorder in isolation, without determining whether another psychiatric disorder is co-occurring, can doom treatment efforts, and the reverse also is true. To help clinicians keep the big picture in mind, the book is organized around 18 cases, each of which addresses a particular diagnostic skill (e.g., assessment), group of disorders commonly comorbid with substance use disorders (e.g., PTSD, eating disorders), specific treatment (e.g., pharmacological interventions), or special population (e.g., adolescents). This case-based approach makes it easy for readers to understand strategies and master transferable techniques when dealing with

Who reads Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders : A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment?

Author

Jonathan D Avery; John W Barnhill; American Psychiatric Publishing

Publisher

American Psychiatric Publishing; American Psychiatric Association Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781615371594

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Medicine