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Our directory of professional resources features articles and handouts for clients and families, tools for clinicians, and advice and guidelines for program administrators.
For Clinicians
CBT technique helps guide decision making
A payoff matrix can serve as a valuable tool in working with clients struggling with unrealistic beliefs or harmful behaviors. In this excerpt from the Hazelden Co-Occurring Disorders Program, the authors discuss applying cognitive behavior therapy, a featured topic in this month's free webinars.
Intervention employs CBT to help clients choose therapy
Few with mental health disorders seek professional care. In an excerpt from her newly published manual, Guiding Decision Maling among Clients, author-clinician Tracy Stecker illustrates how CBT can help encourage clients to consider and seek treatment.
Separating Symptom from Disorder in Screening for Co-occurring Disorders
In an excerpt from the Hazelden Co-occurring Disorders Program, clinicians discuss the challenges of differentiating among patient emotions, withdrawal symptoms, and other disorders and why, for the patient, learning the difference is essential to recovery.
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For Clients
Daily Meditations Help People with Mental Health Disorders
Daily meditations have long been a part of recovery for people with addictions. A Restful Mind offers inspiration and support for people living with mental health problems.
Balance and Boundaries
In Shock Waves, Cynthia Orange provides practical advice on managing one's own reactions to a loved one's PTSD symptoms and illustrates that understanding one's limits may do the most to promote healthy recovery.
Journey Toward Sanity
In Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps, Marya Hornbacher examines the Twelve Steps and sets out suggestions for how those with mental illness can work through them and apply them in their support groups and their life in recovery. In this excerpt, Hornbacher considers her early encounters with Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps.
Cultivating Resiliency
In her book, The Gifts of Imperfection, author Brené Brown considers why some people seem more able to cope with stress and trauma in a way that allows them to move forward with their lives.
Getting help for co-occurring disorders
If you have co-occurring disorders, don't despair. There are effective ways to treat your mental health disorder while you heal from addiction.
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For Program Administrators
