Equipping the Interdisciplinary Workforce to Treat ​Addiction and Behavioral Health

Reducing the Stigma

Angela Colistra, PhD, LPC, CAADC, CCS

Publisher: Springer

Who is involved?

48 clinical and academic experts and counting have agreed to ​contribute to this book.

From treatment facility owners, peers in recovery, academics, ​primary care, education, behavioral health, addiction, and ​recreation experts.

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What if co-occurring care ​was readily available ​regardless of the care ​door that you entered? ​What would need to be ​reimagined for that to ​happen?

The challenge of providing accessible and evidence-based behavioral ​health and addiction care is a significant healthcare disparity we aim to ​confront in the upcoming decade.

Due to the long waiting lists for appointments at psychiatry and mental ​health offices, emergency rooms become unofficial mental health crisis ​facilities and addiction detox centers. The criminal justice system has ​become the primary provider of addiction care, while specialty addiction ​treatment for many is unaffordable or inaccessible due to paperwork ​requirements, inadequate billing codes and reimbursements, and ​workforce shortages.

Training programs for medical and behavioral health professions fall short ​of providing adequate education in co-occurring care. In recent years ​learners have shown interest and demand for more education in this area ​across disciplines illustrating the need for a transformed educational ​model that trains the interdisciplinary workforce in addiction and ​behavioral health care and as a result will reduce stigma.

This textbook is a valuable resource for training the interdisciplinary ​workforce in addiction and behavioral health. Among the sections, we ​will outline the role each discipline plays in co-occurring care, while also ​keeping our attention on keeping healers well in the care. Leaving ​readers with a call to action that will equip new clinicians and peers ​entering the field with intention and forward progress.

We must learn to collaborate across disciplines and work together, no ​longer train and work in silos, so we can improve people's lives in:

health, home, purpose, and community.