The Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Workbook - by Kenneth Minkoff (Paperback)

About the Book

Many people with substance-use disorders also struggle with co-occurring mental health challenges--such as anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Written by experts in treating addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders, this workbook offers powerful recovery skills to help readers work through multiple challenges at once, maintain their motivation for positive change, prevent relapse, and experience lasting healing.

Book Synopsis

Dual recovery from mental illness and addiction is possible. Discover powerful skills and strategies for creating an effective, personalized recovery program with this workbook.

If you are struggling with addiction and a co-occurring mental health challenge such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress (PTSD), or bipolar disorders, you should know that you are not alone, and there is hope for a lasting, dual recovery. This evidence-based workbook can help you--or someone you love--find inner strength, address the addiction and mental health issues simultaneously, and acquire the skills and supports needed to build an enduring recovery program.

Written by national experts in treating co-occurring disorders, this workbook offers powerful, step-by-step guidance and skills to help you work through multiple challenges at once, strengthen your motivation for positive change, build on your successes--however small--to make continuing progress, and experience lasting personal growth. Using a combination of empathic wisdom, behavior skills training, engaging exercises, and real-world examples, this workbook will empower you to create your own personalized recovery plan, one that you can turn to again and again, whenever you need it.

Develop a dual, integrated recovery plan to help you:

• Embrace yourself as you are
• Harness the power of hope
• Focus on your strengths and build self-confidence
• Develop your own "integrated support team"
• Learn the skills you need to succeed

About the Author

Kenneth Minkoff, MD, is vice president and chief operating officer of ZiaPartners, Inc--a behavioral health system consulting firm which specializes in "changing the world" by helping systems organize themselves at every level to be about the needs and hopes of individuals and families with co-occurring mental health and substance-use conditions, and other health and human service needs. A member of the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Faculty for over 40 years, and author of dozens of professional publications, he is a dedicated community psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist who has been providing and teaching about integrated services for over forty years and is acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on integrated recovery-oriented treatment for people with co-occurring conditions.

Kristin Dempsey is a psychotherapist, counselor educator, and trainer. For thirty years, she has supported individuals with exploring their own relationships to substances. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)and has been privileged to provide motivational interviewing (MI) training to thousands of people in health care, school, corrections, and human services organizations. She is adjunct faculty at San Francisco State University and the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. In addition to teaching and training, she works with individuals in private practice on substance use disorders, co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, trauma-related issues and various concerns related to mood, behavior, and thought disorders.