Co-Occurring Resources

Hazelden

Curricula

Hazelden’s evidence-based curricula give professionals step-by-step guidance in evolving their organizations into fully integrated care providers. Hazelden has teamed with the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) to publish comprehensive, user-friendly programs for the integrated treatment of co-occurring disorders.

• Co-occurring Disorders Program (CDP) Developed by faculty from the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, this evidence-based program manualizes the most current, researched practices.
• Severe Mental Illness (SMI)

• Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) This expanded, manualized program effectively teaches clinical skills and offers the necessary guidance to align the work of departments and transform agencies into integrated care providers.
• The IDDT Recovery Life Skills Program A flexible, 18-module group curriculum that moves from traditional relapse-prevention topics to developing the life skills to build and maintain a healthy recovery life plan.
• Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) The core treatment and continuing care component of the SMI line is designed to help clients identify personal recovery goals and develop self-management skills through education and training.
• Housing First A step-by-step manual provides a solid foundation for implementing the evidence-based Pathways Model to End Homelessness for those with mental illness and addiction.
• Supported Employment A user-friendly manual gives professionals the knowledge and tools to apply the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model to help clients compete in the workforce.

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSDThis manualized curriculum helps addiction professionals use CBT with clients who have PTSD and addiction.
• Multimedia Resources Hazelden publishes videos, books, and other resources for professional and client education, including the DVD A Guide for Living with PTSD and Robert E. Drake’s DVD and manual Treating Co-occurring Disorders.
• Online Courses Hazelden offers a range of distance learning opportunities for professionals interested in skill building and earning CE hours, including the course Integrating Treatment for Co-occurring Disorders: An Introduction to What Every Addiction Counselor Needs to Know by Hazelden and NAADAC. Focus on Integrated Treatment (FIT) is a cost-effective, interactive, 35-module online training program that helps you develop the skills to take an integrated approach to treating clients’ co-occurring disorders. CEs can be applied to the CCDP and CCDPD credentials.
• Webinars Hazelden offers a variety of free online webinars—both live and recorded—presented by the researchers and authors of such premier programs as the Co-occurring Disorders Program and Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment. CEs can be earned by taking the learning assessment available for some webinars.
• Trainings Trainings delivered by certified trainers are available to help organizations implement Hazelden’s evidence-based curricula with confidence and fidelity.

Dartmouth PRC

• Dartmouth PRC’s research programs incorporate multiple scientific perspectives, such as clinical, economic, and ethnographic. The PRC works with efficacy and services researchers to address the needs of multiple stakeholders through effectiveness research in routine practice settings.
• Shared Decision Making Resources: Shared decision making in medicine is a process by which patients and providers consider outcome probabilities and patient preferences and reach a health care decision based on mutual agreement.
• Dartmouth PRC-Hazelden Publishing Partnership Resources: Together, Hazelden and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, via their joint publishing imprint, are committed to providing comprehensive programs and evidence-based tools for helping people identify their disorders, get the help they need, and sustain healthy, fulfilling lives. Resources published under the imprint, include curricula, books, multimedia tools, and staff-development trainings.
• Screen for Co-occurring Disorders: The purpose of screening is designed to accurately identify individuals who may have a co-occurring disorder. Each of these recommended screening tools has shown good reliability and validity and is proven to have a high degree of accuracy in predicting who may need further assessment and treatment.

NAADAC

• Integrating Treatment for Co-occurring Disorders An Introduction to What Every Addiction Counselor Needs to Know This skill-based training program, designed for those who do not have a significant background with co-occurring disorders, will help addiction counselors improve their ability to assist clients who have co-occurring disorders, within their scope of practice. The program introduces the integrated model of mental health and addiction treatment services and outlines how to utilize current substance abuse treatment best practices when working with this population.

NATIONAL COUNCIL

• Healthcare Reform: Implications for Behavioral Health Providers (PDF) John O’Brien, Chuck Ingoglia, and Dale Jarvis, September 21, 2010 A great primer on healthcare reform (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) as it relates to the behavioral health system, with information and guidance to plan and prepare for clinical and fiscal changes, including those related to Medicaid.
• Developing Best Practices, Skills, and Resources for Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (PDF) Lindy Fox, December 8, 2010 Dartmouth’s Lindy Fox provides an overview of the application of evidence-based therapies to the treatment of dual disorders for people with a co-occurring substance use disorder and severe mental illness (SMI).
• Bringing Evidence Based Practices to Your Organization (PDF) Patrick J. Kanary, December 14, 2010 Patrick Kanary, of Ohio’s Center for Excellence/Center for Innovative Practices, a leading voice in the dissemination of evidence-based practices, describes some of the key elements in selecting an evidence-based/informed practice and some of the lessons learned on the ground in Ohio.

SAMHSA

• This SAMHSA brochure (PDF) surveys the research literature on integrated treatment for co-occurring disorders, includes the article “Implementing Dual Diagnosis Services for Clients With Severe Mental Illness” (Drake et al., 2001), and provides a bibliography of other key evidence-based integrated treatment practices.

WESTBRIDGE

• Westbridge offers a variety of helpful links to essential reading in the field of co-occurring disorders and integrated treatment, including whitepapers, publications, and a suggested reading list.