This guide introduces substance use disorder treatment and family therapy and features models for integrating the two approaches to therapy. It also discusses cultural competency, considerations for specific populations, policy and program issues, and guidelines for assessing violence.

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This course was updated in 2017 by SAMHSA – updates are provided in the course material.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
1 Choke Cherry Road
Rockville, MD 20857

Consensus Panel

Note: The information given indicates each participant's affiliation during the time the panel
was convened and may no longer reflect the individual's current affiliation.

Chair
Edward Kaufman, M.D., Editor in Chief, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Dana Point, California

Co­Chair
Marianne R. M. Yoshioka, M.S.W., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Columbia University, School of Social Work, New York, New York

Workgroup Leaders
Mary M. Gillespie, Psy.D., CASAC, Professor, Hudson Valley Community College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Gloria Grijalva-­Gonzales, Certified Sr. Substance Abuse Case,Manager/Counselor, San Joaquin County – Office of Substance Abuse, Allies Project, Stockton, California

I. Andrew Hamid, Ph.D., M.S.W., MFT, CSW, Professor, Columbia University, School of Social Work, New York, New York

David Rosenthal, Ph.D., Executive Director, Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, New York, New York

Daniel Santisteban, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, University of Miami, School of Medicine. Miami, Florida

Carol Shapiro, M.S.W., Executive Director, Family Justice Center, New York, New York

Panelists
Fred U. Andes, D.S.W., M.S.W., M.P.A., LCSW, Assistant Professor of Sociology, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey

Paul Curtin, M.A., CAC, NCAC II, President, Alcohol Services, Inc., Syracuse, New York

Jo­Ann Krestan, M.A., MFT, LADC, Family Therapist/Writer, Private Practice, Surry, Maine

Eric E. McCollum, Ph.D., LCSW, LMFT, Professor and Clinical Director, Virginia Tech Falls Church, Marriage and Family Therapy Program
Falls Church, Virginia

Margaret McMahon, M.T.S., M.S., M.S.W., Clinician, Licensed Certified Social Worker, Private Practice, Washington, DC

Greer McSpadden, M.S.W., LISW, Director, BHS, First Nations Community Health Source, Albuquerque, New Mexico

William Francis Northey, Jr., Ph.D., Research Specialist, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Alexandria, Virginia

Marlene F. Watson, Ph.D., Director Programs in Couple and Family Therapy, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Loretta Young Silvia, M.Ed., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Winston-­Salem, North Carolina

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