Content Overview

This TIP is divided into eight chapters designed to thoroughly cover all relevant aspects of screening, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and programming.

Chapter 1: Introduction to SUD Treatment for People With CODs

This chapter provides a broad introduction to CODs and to SUD treatment for people with CODs. It serves as an outline of the main focus of this TIP. The intended audiences are addiction counselors and other SUD treatment professionals (e.g., psychologists, psychiatrists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychiatric and mental health nurses [specialty practice registered nurses]), supervisors, and administrators.

Chapter 2: Guiding Principles for Working With People Who Have CODs

This chapter reviews strategies and recommended guidelines for effective COD services. The intended audiences are counselors and other behavioral health service providers, supervisors, and administrators.

Chapter 3: Screening and Assessment of CODs

This chapter describes the screening and full assessment process for identifying people with and at risk for mental illnesses and SUDs. The intended audiences are addiction counselors and other providers, supervisors, and administrators.

Chapter 4: Mental and Substance-Related Disorders: Diagnostic and Cross-Cutting Topics

This chapter will help readers learn the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) diagnostic criteria for mental disorders that commonly occur alongside SUDs, as well as symptoms of substance related disorders. The intended audiences are addiction counselors and other providers, supervisors, and administrators.

Chapter 5: Strategies for Working With People Who Have CODs

This chapter summarizes the importance of establishing a therapeutic alliance with clients who have CODs and discusses how providers can do so. The intended audiences are addiction counselors and other providers, supervisors, and administrators.

Chapter 6: CODs Among Special Populations

This chapter discusses four populations with CODs who may be especially susceptible to treatment challenges and negative outcomes: people experiencing homelessness, people involved in the criminal justice system, women, and racial/ ethnic minorities. The intended audiences are SUD counselors and other providers, supervisors, and administrators.

Chapter 7: Treatment Models and Settings for People With CODs

This chapter is an overview of treatment models and settings for clients with CODs. It will help counselors and administrators offer empirically supported care for this population. The intended audiences are counselors and other providers, supervisors, and administrators in addiction programs.

Chapter 8: Workforce and Administrative Concerns in Working With People Who Have CODs

This chapter reviews major issues facing the mental health service and SUD treatment labor force and demonstrates how workforce matters can negatively affect clients with CODs. The intended audiences are supervisors and administrators in SUD treatment.