The Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Workbook: An Integrated Approach to Overcome Co-Occurring Challenges and Take Back Your Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781648486746)

Kenneth Minkoff, MD, is vice president and chief operating officer of ZiaPartners, Inc--a behavioral health system consulting firm which specializes in "changing the world" by helping systems organize themselves at every level to be about the needs and hopes of individuals and families with co-occurring mental health and substance-use conditions, and other health and human service needs. A member of the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Faculty for over 40 years, and author of dozens of professional publications, he is a dedicated community psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist who has been providing and teaching about integrated services for over forty years and is acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on integrated recovery-oriented treatment for people with co-occurring conditions.

Kristin Dempsey is a psychotherapist, counselor educator, and trainer. For thirty years, she has supported individuals with exploring their own relationships to substances. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)and has been privileged to provide motivational interviewing (MI) training to thousands of people in health care, school, corrections, and human services organizations. She is adjunct faculty at San Francisco State University and the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. In addition to teaching and training, she works with individuals in private practice on substance use disorders, co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, trauma-related issues and various concerns related to mood, behavior, and thought disorders.