Co-Occurring Disorders: The Integrated Assessment & Comprehensive Treatment of Substance Use & Mental Disorders

• Are you ignoring the 50% of your clients who have co-occurring substance use and mental disorders?
• Get the proven 3-step process to craft meaningful, effective, and reimbursable treatment and recovery plans
• Access dozens of no-cost assessment tools to enhance diagnostic accuracy and to measure outcomes
• In one day transform your practice – become the “go-to therapist”!

I was well into my career as a psychiatrist, both clinical and administrative, when it sank in that well-over half the people who came to me for help had significant co-occurring substance use and mental disorders.

Sadly, what happens is that current assessment and treatment paradigms focus primarily on one problem or the other, leaving much unassessed, unaddressed, or ignored.

For anyone who has watched a client or family member struggle with drugs or alcohol, achieve abstinence in a rehab facility, only to relapse within days to weeks after discharge, this point is made flesh. What happened? They were doing so well. What happened is that their anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and so forth, led to urges and cravings that they were unequipped to manage. In the millisecond it took for their mind to connect a first drink, pill, snort, or shot of heroin to a reduction in anxiety and other negative emotions, a month's worth of 12-step became nothing but a memory.

All of which led me to want a consistent and effective approach to assess and work with individuals with any number of co-occurring combinations. It's clear that what we need for the homeless woman, with intravenous opioid use and schizoaffective disorder, is different from the insurance executive who sucks down a daily fifth of whiskey to keep his anxiety and panic at bay, or the teen who cuts herself and misuses her brother's stimulants to both decrease her appetite, and her overwhelming feelings of sadness and emptiness.

This day-long training provides practical assessment and treatment strategies, which can be deployed across the co-occurring continua. Whether you are an administrator who creates interventions at the system level, or a rubber-meets-the-road clinician, the step-by-step approaches we will discuss and use (lots of case studies) will give you the tools you need to both improve and track your clinical outcomes.

OUTLINE

Co-Occurring

• Key concepts: The Recovery Movement, harm reduction and abstinence models
• The historical perspective of Co-Occurring Disorders and the "No Wrong Door Policy"
• The quadrants of care
• Stages of treatment, and sequential, parallel and integrated treatment
• Integration of behavioral health, substance use, and primary care
  • Rise of the Behavioral Health Home Model
• Co-occurring and the DSM-5®, the ICD-9, and the ICD-10

The MOST Comprehensive Co-Occurring Assessment and State-of-the-Art Tools

• The Intake
• High-risk areas for misdiagnoses and missed diagnoses, and how to navigate them
• The utility of standardized assessment tools and when to use them
• How and where to obtain no-cost, and well-validated, diagnosis-specific instruments
• Pitfalls in obtaining the history: The importance of wide-net information gathering
• Objective data and how and when to access prescription monitoring databases
• The assessment of dangerousness
• Assessing Readiness for Change, and stage-of-change theory
• How to approach level of care decisions

Co-Occurring Treatment/Recovery Plans in 3 Easy Steps

• Creating the Problem/Need List
• Setting goals and objectives that meet client and regulatory needs
• Developing fully integrated treatment/recovery plans

Evidence-Based Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders

• Motivational Interviewing
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and strategies
• Skills training
• Mindfulness
• Mutual self-help & peer-based interventions
• Wellness
• Family interventions
• Assertive community treatment and targeted case management
• Psychopharmacology including replacement strategies

Master Diagnosis-Specific Issues in Co-Occurring Disorders

• ADHD
• Depression and Bipolar Disorders
• Anxiety and PTSD
• Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
• Personality Disorders

Substance-Specific Issues in Co-Occurring Disorders

• Alcohol
• Opioids
• Tobacco
• Cocaine and other stimulants, including "Bath Salts"
• Cannabis & Synthetic Cannabis
• The internet and other sources of drugs

OBJECTIVES

• Identify the signs and symptoms of clinically relevant withdrawal states, and how these can mimic other disorders.
• Identify DSM-5® diagnoses where metrics (standardized assessment tools) can be used to aid in the assessment and outcomes measurement of specific disorders.
• List key differences between abstinence and harm-reduction models, and the relative merits of each.
• Be able to formulate treatment and recovery goals and objectives that are desirable, measurable, behavioral, CMS and Joint Commission compliant, and specific to the client.
• Identify high-risk situations in co-occurring disorders, and how these influence level-of-care decision making.
• Identify strategies for working with opioid dependent individuals, including replacement therapies, overdose rescue kits, and working with pregnant women.

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