Managing Substance Use Disorder: Your Substance Use Disorder: Client Workbook Practitioner Guide provides practical and empirically-based strategies for addressing and stopping substance use, and for changing daily lifestyle and behaviors that contribute to continued use. Healthcare practitioners in medical, psychiatric, addiction, and social services settings will find comprehensive information on substance use disorders, current trends, DSM-5 substance related disorders, and causes and effects of these disorders. Designed to accompany Managing Your Substance Use Disorder: Client Workbook, this manualized guide provides a detailed description of screening and assessment strategies and treatment approaches (medications and psychosocial), integrating evidenced-based interventions with the authors' extensive clinical experiences. Mutual support programs and the impact on the family and concerned significant others are also discussed, as are the most common challenges faced by individuals with a substance use disorder, such as managing cravings, resisting social pressures to use substances, coping with negative emotions and moods, building a social support network, involving family or concerned significant others, and reducing relapse risk. This expanded third edition also includes a new chapter on the management of co-occurring psychiatric disorders.

Overview of Substance Use Problems and AssessmentChapter 1Introductory Information for PractitionersChapter 2Understanding Substance Use ProblemsChapter 3Screening, Assessment, and DiagnosisTreatment Settings and ApproachesChapter 4Treatment Settings for Substance Use ProblemsChapter 5Psychosocial Therapies for Substance Use DisordersChapter 6Medications for Substance Use DisordersChange Issues and StrategiesChapter 7Stages of Change and Using Therapy or CounselingChapter 8Goal Planning in RecoveryChapter 9Managing Cravings and Urges to Use SubstancesChapter 10Managing Thoughts of Using SubstancesChapter 11Managing EmotionsChapter 12Refusing Offers to Use SubstancesChapter 13Dealing With Family and Interpersonal ProblemsChapter 14Building a Recovery Support SystemChapter 15Mutual Support Programs and Recovery ClubsAssessing and Treating Co-occurring Psychiatric DisordersChapter 16Assessment of Co-occurring Psychiatric DisordersChapter 17Treatment of Co-occurring Psychiatric DisordersRelapse Prevention and Progress MeasurementChapter 18Reducing the Risk of RelapseChapter 19Relapse ManagementChapter 20Strategies for Balanced LivingChapter 21Measuring ProgressAppendixReferences and Suggested ReadingsAbout the Authors