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Basic Treatment Techniques for Persons with Mental Disorders and Co-occurring Substance Use Disorders

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Chapter 23 details the psychopharmacology and psychosocial evidence base for treating co-occurring of mental illness and substance use disorders (COD).This chapter focuses on a basic level of practice: basic techniques that underlie the common clinical approaches that community psychiatrists and other clinicians use in treating patients with COD. This focus on technique does not describe new interventions for COD, or describe standard treatment approaches, but rather offers a clinically oriented way for clinicians to think about them, so that there is a menu from which they might be more easily implemented.

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    Richard N. Rosenthal MD

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Rosenthal, R.N. (2012). Basic Treatment Techniques for Persons with Mental Disorders and Co-occurring Substance Use Disorders. In: McQuistion, H., Sowers, W., Ranz, J., Feldman, J. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3149-7_22

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