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The Dually-diagnosed. A Therapist's Guide to Helping the Substance Abusing, Psychologically Disturbed Patient.
Dennis C. Ortman
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Description for The Dually-diagnosed. A Therapist's Guide to Helping the Substance Abusing, Psychologically Disturbed Patient.
Hardback. Challenging the conventional wisdom that splits treatment between the psychological and medical arenas in order to address both, this title argues that clinicians should be prepared to treat the entire patient in one therapeutic space. Num Pages: 402 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; MMJT; MMZR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Treatment of even the accurately dually diagnosed is limited by the specialization of the professionals. Their intellectual biases differ and their therapeutic approaches can be hard to reconcile: Is one disorder secondary to the other? Should the clinician be supportive or confrontational? Should medication be prescribed? Or hospitalization? Or a twelve-step program? As the number of seriously ill substance abusers in outpatient settings multiplies with the ascendance of managed care and its attendant cost restrictions, more and more practitioners of every stripe will encounter the therapeutic dilemmas posed by the dually diagnosed. Dennis Ortman, challenging the conventional wisdom that splits ... Read more
Treatment of even the accurately dually diagnosed is limited by the specialization of the professionals. Their intellectual biases differ and their therapeutic approaches can be hard to reconcile: Is one disorder secondary to the other? Should the clinician be supportive or confrontational? Should medication be prescribed? Or hospitalization? Or a twelve-step program? As the number of seriously ill substance abusers in outpatient settings multiplies with the ascendance of managed care and its attendant cost restrictions, more and more practitioners of every stripe will encounter the therapeutic dilemmas posed by the dually diagnosed. Dennis Ortman, challenging the conventional wisdom that splits ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
Northvale NJ, United States
ISBN
9781568217703
SKU
V9781568217703
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About Dennis C. Ortman
Dennis Ortman counseled individuals and families struggling with substance abuse while serving as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Detroit. Since earning his doctorate in clinical psychology, he has specialized in the treatment of patients in whom psychiatric disorders coexist with addiction problems. In addition to his work in outpatient mental health clinics, he consults on integrating treatment for ... Read more
Reviews for The Dually-diagnosed. A Therapist's Guide to Helping the Substance Abusing, Psychologically Disturbed Patient.
I hope that this work finds its way onto the desks, and not the bookshelves, of every therapist and counselor providing direct services to the dual diagnosis population.
Henry Richards, Ph.D., Clinical Heuristics, Inc. This book is a wonderfully compassionate, extremely readable, and impressively non-dogmatic guide for outpatient psychotherapists interested in learning some basic, practical strategies for engaging and ... Read more
Henry Richards, Ph.D., Clinical Heuristics, Inc. This book is a wonderfully compassionate, extremely readable, and impressively non-dogmatic guide for outpatient psychotherapists interested in learning some basic, practical strategies for engaging and ... Read more