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Treating the Antisocial Addict: Treatment Planning
People with antisocial behavior patterns can be some of the toughest clients to help in conventional counseling. Assessment and treatment planning can keep antisocial client focused. This article by...
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Dual Dilemma: When Addiction & Mental Illness Combine
Treating addiction when mental health problems are also present can be like playing whack-a-mole: You address one problem and another one escalates. And it’s never easy to figure out which symptom...
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Some Observations on Mental Illness
1. Mind versus brain So-called ‘mental’ disorders are those that affects thinking, emotion, memory, stress response, etc. It’s not practical to make a clear separation between mental and physical...
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Co-Occurring Disorders Workbook
This simple, task-oriented patient education tool can be easily added to your group or individual counseling curriculum. The workbook is divided into ten “Tasks” focused on helping co-occurring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DSM5 – The Great Debaters
With the new iteration approved and readying for release, I thought this might be a good time for a brief reminder about its limitations. Most so-called ‘mental’ illnesses are still defined in terms of...
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A Primer on Psychiatric Disorders, part 4 Psychiatry has made enormous strides in the identification of mental illnesses. Nonetheless, most disorders are still defined in terms of their symptoms,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Better Diagnostic Understanding of Addiction
Translating Accurate Diagnosis into Effective Treatment, Part One Around this time last year, the mental health world was just gearing up for the appearance of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...
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Counseling Clients With Complex Disorders
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