Individuals living with serious mental illness are often difficult to engage in ongoing
treatment, with high dropout rates. Poor engagement may lead to worse clinical outcomes …

Substance abuse is the most common and clinically significant comorbid disorder among
adults with severe mental illness. In this chapter, the term substance abuse refers to …

Several interventions for people with co-occurring severe mental illnesses and substance
use disorders have emerged since the early 1980s. This paper reviews 26 controlled studies …

This comprehensive, authoritative text provides a state-of-the-art review of current
knowledge and best practices for helping adults with psychiatric disabilities move forward in …

This report reviews studies of psychosocial interventions for people with co-occurring
substance use disorder and severe mental illness. We identified 45 controlled studies (22 …

Social skills training consists of learning activities utilizing behavioral techniques that enable
persons with schizophrenia and other disabling mental disorders to acquire interpersonal …

Web-Based Psychoeducational Intervention for Persons With Schizophrenia and Their
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While much professional interest, public advocacy and media attention accompanied the
neuroscientific research advances of the Decade of the Brain, much less prominence was …

OBJECTIVE: Clients with co-occurring severe mental and substance use disorders are at
high risk of institutionalization and other adverse outcomes. Although integrated mental …

This study examined the efficacy of a Mental Health Treatment Court (MHTC) with diversion
to treatment supported by an assertive community treatment (ACT) model of case …