Professional Interview Series: Introducing Kenneth Minkoff, MD

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Professional Interview Series

Introducing Kenneth Minkoff, MD

Welcome to Athealth.com's Professional Interview Series. Athealth.com is pleased to feature Dr. Kenneth Minkoff, who answers questions about evidence-based, best clinical practices in the treatment of co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.

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"The most significant developments in the area of co-occurring disorders have to do with the recognition of the high prevalence of comorbidity and the realization for the need to design interventions for people with co-occurring disorders throughout the entire service system..."

Kenneth Minkoff, MD, shares his expertise with the athealth.com network of mental health professionals to help us understand the challenges facing systems of care and clinicians in providing appropriate care to patients with co-occurring disorders.

"...evidence-based and -derived practice guidelines have been developed; these generally indicate that people who receive proper treatment will get better. This underscores the need to provide integrated treatment interventions where the individual has a primary treatment relationship in which interventions for the substance use disorder and interventions for the mental health disorder are brought together and coordinated in a person-centered, coherent whole appropriate to the level of the person's impairment and incapacity to meet these problems on his/her own..."

Dr. Minkoff walks us through a brief, clinical vignette while demonstrating the most essential clinical strategies to employ when working with this population. From evidence-based practices to outcome trends, Dr. Minkoff delivers resources and tools for enhancing our acumen and improving our clinical focus when working with patients suffering from dual disorders. His insight, expertise, and thoughtfulness are evident throughout this presentation.

"The more we treat people differently, the more likely we are to precipitate poor clinical outcomes."

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