Slipping Through the Cracks: Intervention Strategies for Clients with Multiple Addictions and Disorders

by Mark Sanders

Clients who have multiple addictions and disorders are more difficult to engage and treat than clients with a single disorder. Many of the current systems are ill-equipped to address the myriad challenges of these clients—their relapse and recidivism rates are higher, and many of these clients tend to slip through the cracks, often going back and forth among addictions treatment, psychiatric and medical hospitalizations, and incarceration. Too many difficult-to-reach clients are at risk for relapse because their practitioners lack effective, innovative strategies for this unique client base who remain part of a revolving-door syndrome. Now, Certified Alcohol and Drug Addictions Counselor Mark Sanders, LCSW, offers specific strategies to assist therapists and counselors who work with difficult and at-risk populations, including those

Slipping Through the Cracks is a encyclopedic handbook to specific traits of the difficult-to-reach client, as well as a concise guidebook to effective strategies that will be useful to anyone working with clients in private practice or in treatment programs who have both mental health and substance abuse issues.

216 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2011

About the author

Mark Sanders is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid (2002) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory (2006).

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

A little book but it has great ideas for SUD therapists. I’m an MSW, LSW and went from mental health to SUD so this book gave me ideas on helping my clients. I’m not naive that there will be clients who relapse but reading this has given me ways to use MI and implement some other practices to help clients to not fall through the cracks.