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of Contents DUAL RECOVERY: BIG IDEAS - SMALL STEPS As Director of Integrated Psychiatric and Addiction Services for Arbour Health System and certified in Addiction Psychiatry, Dr. Kenneth Minkhoff is an expert on dual diagnosis and integration of mental health and substance abuse disorders. He is a focused, fast-talking, power-packed presenter who comes with a handout of over 100 pages. He's definitely serious about advocating for an evidenced-based "best practice" treatment model for dual diagnosis. In simplistic terms, this model would mean "Integrated Intensive Case Management Teams" and "Modified Addiction Residential Programs and Therapeutic Communities." It would mean that two seemingly different systems-mental health and substance abuse-would need to recognize, validate and integrate the strengths of each. And although excitement percolated during his October 26 training, the changes Dr. Minkoff is calling for mean big changes in current attitudes and approaches. In both mental health and substance abuse treatment programs, people are often cemented in time limits and labels. If a person fails after a 30-day rehab program, or after ten insurance-covered visits with a therapist, the word "failure" surfaces.Minkhoff stresses the need for treatment providers and funding sources to "give up certain fantasies" and come to terms with the realities of recovery- it takes time. And when the person being treated for a very real mental illness and a very real substance abuse disorder is in jail, or living under a bridge and drinking daily it can take a lot of time to recover. Minkoff spent seven hours building his case for an integrated dual diagnosi s model. He reviewed development, assessment and individualized treatment matching, integrated systems, programs and technology, and integrated strategies for psychopharmacology. The next step is up to everyone who attended. Addiction,
Trauma & EMDR Examine
the nature of traumatic experience and explore the complex relationship
between trauma and recovery from addiction. Review of treatment
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(EMDR) and mindfulness training. Free and open to the public.
Contact Cliff Green to register (518) 747-0035, ext. 265. www.wwamh.org "Ask the Therapist" for a direct and personal link to Caleo Counseling Services clinicians. www.aacap.org The American Acedmeny of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry web site includes information for both families and professionals. www.narsad.org The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression represents the unified commitment for the support of research by the members of the country's largest mental health organizations-NAMI, NMHA, NDMDA (National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association.) http:// depression-screening.org NMHA web site to educate people about depression, offers a simple and confidential way for people to get screened for the illness. Includes a screening test, broad range of information, where to find help, mental health advocacy, video clips of personal stories about recovery and links to other helpful web sites and groups. PT CRUISER And the winner is….. BETH BULAWA ROME, NY
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