This TIP, Managing Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Clients During Early Recovery, provides substance abuse counselors the "what," "why," and "how-to" of working with clients with depressive symptoms and substance use disorders, covering topics such as counseling approaches, clinical settings, cultural concerns, counselor roles and responsibilities, screening and assessment, treatment planning and processes, and continuing care. This TIP also provides administrators information about incorporating the management of depressive symptoms into their substance abuse programs, complete with a systematic approach to designing and implementing a supportive infrastructure. The Literature Review synthesizes the most current knowledge and scientific findings on the topic and is only available online at www.kap.samhsa.gov
Sustaining Grassroots Community-Based Programs: A Tool Kit for Community-and Faith-Based Service Providers ToolKit designed to help grassroot community and faith based organizations develop program services. Contains 6 separate books: Introduction, Organizational Assessment and Readiness, Effective Marketing Strategies, Financial Management, Sustainability Strategies, and Results-Oriented Evaluation.
This TIP, Treatment Drug Courts: Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment with Legal Case Processing, helps policymakers and practitioners plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate programs that effectively integrate treatment in the pretrial processing of criminal cases.
This TIP, Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders, presents information on identifying, screening, and assessing adolescents who use substances. The TIP focuses on the most current procedures and instruments for detecting substance abuse among adolescents, conducting comprehensive assessments, and beginning treatment planning.
This manual contains al the materials needed for conducting the Individual/Conjoint, Early Recovery Skills, Relapse Prevention, and Social Support sessions in the Matrix Intensive Outpatient (IOP) package, which follows a structured approach for treating adults who abuse or are dependant on stimulants. The manual provides talking points and client handouts for each session.
Volunteers are critical to a health community. Volunteers can enhance an organization's general profile - attracting more volunteers, clients, and funds. Chapters examine planning and recruiting, training, managing, and evaluating volunteers. The booklet also covers background checks for volunteers. Also included: sample mission statements, volunteer applications forms and agreements.
This manual provides lessons for teaching adolescents problem-solving techniques, ways to manage anger and depression, communication skills, tips for coping with cravings and urges, ways to plan for high-risk situations, and methods for coping with relapses. The document includes reproducible posters and handouts, a glossary of terms, and therapist rating forms.
This manual guides therapists and supervisors in using the community reinforcement approach with adolescents and caregivers. It provides sample exchanges between therapists and adolescents to illustrate how therapists help adolescents find or enhance reinforcements to abstinence, use community resources to support change, and develop family support.
Created for family members of those dependent on alcohol or illicit drugs, answers questions often asked by families of people entering treatment. Offers a resources section with additional information and a list of support groups.
14 Employer Cost Savings briefs were created to provide information on the costs of substance use disorders (SUD) for employers and guidance on how they can enhance health plan administration to lower their costs and increase treatment. The set of 14 Employer Cost Savings briefs will be very concise (2 pages) arguments based on the technical cost literature to help employers recognize the detrimental and costly influence of substance use disorders in the workplace and understand what actions they can take to address the problem.
Provides a training structure for introducing treatment program staff to the evidence-based practices for co-occurring disorders presented in Treatment Improvement Protocol 42. It focuses on what the substance abuse treatment clinician needs to know to address co-occurring disorders in treatment programs.
The booklet gives older adults indicators of possible mental health problems and offers them suggestions to address these problems. It also lists national hotlines and Web sites for more information.
The booklet warns older adults about misusing alcohol and medication and offers signals that may indicate an alcohol- or medication-related problem. It also provides steps people can take if they recognize they have a problem.
Combined 2005 and 2006 data indicate that an annual average of 3.3 million youths aged 12 to 17 (13.3 percent) received services for emotional or behavioral problems in a specialty mental health setting in the past year. About 3.0 million youths (12.0 percent) received services for emotional or behavioral problems in a school-based setting, and around 752,000 (3.0 percent) received such services in a general medical setting. Female youths were more likely than their male counterparts to receive services for emotional or behavioral problems in a specialty mental health or educational setting.
The goal of Assertive Community Treatment is to help people stay out of the hospital and to develop skills for living in the community, so that their mental illness is not the driving force in their lives. Assertive community treatment offers services that are customized to the individual needs of the consumer, delivered by a team of practitioners, and available 24 hours a day.
The goal of Assertive Community Treatment is to help people stay out of the hospital and to develop skills for living in the community, so that their mental illness is not the driving force in their lives. Assertive community treatment offers services that are customized to the individual needs of the consumer, delivered by a team of practitioners, and available 24 hours a day.
Combined data from 2002 to 2006 indicate that an estimated 2.6 percent of youths aged 12 to 17 reported receiving out-of-home services for emotional or behavioral problems in the past 12 months in a hospital, a residential treatment center, or a foster care or therapeutic foster care setting. Among youths aged 12 to 17 who received any type of out-of-home services for emotional or behavioral problems in the past 12 months, about half reported staying only for 1 or 2 nights. The reported length of time spent in out-of-home service settings in the past year varied by gender; in general, male youths aged 12 to 17 were more likely to report having stayed for 1 night, while their female counterparts were more likely to report having stayed for 7 nights or longer.
Provides a training structure for introducing substance abuse treatment professionals to the concepts used in medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction. Describes opioid use disorders and treatment, and provides evidence-based best practice for treating opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs.
Provides a training structure for introducing substance abuse treatment professionals to the role of detoxification in the continuum of services for individuals with substance use disorders. Includes information on the physiology of withdrawal, pharmacological advances in the management of withdrawal, patient placement procedures, and the management of detoxification services in comprehensive systems of care.