Advances in Dual Diagnosis: Volume 9 Issue 2/3

Closing the science-practice gap: introduction to the special issue on psychological interventions for comorbid addictions and mental health problems

Jaime Delgadillo, Frances Kay-Lambkin

Behavioral Activation Treatment for Smoking (BATS) in smokers with depressive symptomatology

Laura MacPherson, Anahi Collado, Carl W. Lejuez, Richard A. Brown, Matthew T. Tull

Cigarette smoking remains the primary preventable cause of mortality and morbidity globally. The overarching goal of the paper is to disseminate the Behavioral Activation…

QuikFix: enhanced motivational interviewing interventions for youth substance use

Leanne Hides, Hollie Wilson, Catherine Quinn, Davina Sanders

This paper explores the background principles, theories, and components of the QuikFix intervention for primary and comorbid substance use in young people.

Implementing evidence-based psychological substance misuse interventions in a high secure prison based personality disorder treatment service

Alice Bennett, Melanie Hunter

This paper aims to describe: the need for substance misuse treatment with high risk, personality disordered prisoners, and the implementation of two evidence-based psychological…

Reaching out to patients with antisocial personality disorder in substance use disorder treatment: interactions between counsellors and clients in a psycho-educational intervention

Morten Hesse, Birgitte Thylstrup

This article presents the Impulsive Lifestyle Counselling program, a time-limited psychoeducational approach to increasing patient awareness of antisocial personality disorder and…

LETS Act: a behavioral activation treatment for substance use and depression

Stacey B Daughters, Jessica F Magidson, Carl W. Lejuez, Yun Chen

Substance use disorders (SUDs) often co-occur with major depressive disorder (MDD), yet treatments targeting this comorbidity are limited, especially in resource limited settings…

Substance misuse brief interventions during psychiatric hospital admissions

Hermine L Graham, Emma Jean Griffith, Alex Copello, Max Birchwood

To provide a summary of the principles, theories and basic components of a recently developed brief integrated motivational intervention (BIMI) for working with individuals…