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Improving Assessment and Treatment Planning for
David Mee-Lee, M.D.
Persons Having Co-Occurring Disorders
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RESOURCE FOR TRAINING VIDEOTAPE
“Enhancing Motivation: How to Engage People into Addiction Treatment” By David Mee-Lee, M.D.
This training album is designed to improve practitioners’ abilities to assess and engage people into
participatory treatment. Treatment programs can use this training to orient new staff or refresh current
clinicians. Practical strategies and methods are offered to help change interviewing methods, treatment
planning and documentation, program components, range of services, and policies to better engage people
into treatment
Available at www.DMLMD.com from DML Training and Consulting, Davis, CA (530) 753-4300
Fire Starters
1. Addictive and psychiatric disorders are both significant chronic conditions characterized by
episodes of exacerbation, remission and relapse.
2. All clients should be retained in treatment and treated with great respect in spite of non-follow
through with treatment plan recommendations, including failure to take prescribed medication or
return to use of their drug of choice.
3. Addiction and mental illness are both no-fault disease categories.
4. No behavioral health problem is so grave that the client cannot be engaged in the recovery
process.
5. It is more important to convey caring and concern than to avoid being manipulated or conned –
even at the cost of “enabling”.
6. Medication can be an effective strategy in the treatment of both disorders.
7. Can someone on methadone be in recovery?
8. Evaluating and monitoring how a client is functioning in their living environment with significant
others is equally as important as to whether they go to AA or other recovery groups.
(Some modified or added from original Fire Starters developed by Mike Boyle, M.A., Executive Vice President,
Fayette Companies www.BHRM.ORG E-mail: mboyle@fayettcompanies.org)
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