Session Outlines

Partnering With Families Affected by Concurrent Disorders - Facilitators' Guide

A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders contains the content for each of the 12 sessions. It includes:

• information and educational material
• activities
• tip lists
• resources and contact information
• quotations from family members.

The 12 chapters in A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders introduce topics in an ordered sequence. Inevitably, some participants will read ahead, or jump out of sequence. We are inclined to be flexible and to allow the needs and opportunities that arise over the life of the group to help determine the format and content of the sessions. This may mean changing the sequence in which material is presented. For example, one of our group members suggested that the recovery material should be discussed in the first session. Some of the clinicians who attended our workshops have asked about starting off with the self-care session. You may find that the group wants to spend more than one session on a particular topic and will agree to drop a topic that they feel is less relevant to their situations.

In the session outlines (see below), we share suggestions for facilitating the sessions and presenting the content.

Some of the sessions include quizzes:

• Preoccupation and Impact (Session 4)
• Assessing Resilience (Session 5)
• Family Concurrent Disorders Readiness to Change Ruler (Session 7)
• Recovery Attitudes Questionnaire (Session 11)

You may want to ask the group members to save their completed quizzes and to take one or more of the quizzes again in the final session, to see if their answers and scores have changed.

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Partnering With Families Affected by Concurrent Disorders - Facilitators' Guide

• Overview
• Working with families
• Preparation
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Session Outlines
  • Session 1: Introduction
  • Session 2: Substance use problems
  • Session 3: Mental health problems
  • Session 4: How concurrent disorders affect family life
  • Session 5: Self-care
  • Session 6: Stigma
  • Session 7: Navigating the treatment system
  • Session 8: Medication
  • Session 9: Relapse prevention
  • Session 10: Crisis and emergency
  • Session 11: Recovery
  • Session 12: Saying goodbye
• References
• Resources
• Appendix 1: An Overview of the Research
• Appendix 2: The Partnering With Families Affected by Concurrent Disorders Project

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