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This document discusses case management for substance abusers with special needs, such as HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and homelessness. It outlines the challenges case managers face and the attitudes and skills required to provide effective support.
What's inside
- Challenges in case management for substance abusers
- Special needs of substance abusers
- Attitudes and skills for case managers
- Common special needs in case management
- Introduction to case management issues
Who it is for: Students and professionals in social work and healthcare. (Professional)
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Summary
Case management helps substance abusers deal with other life problems. It covers how case managers can support clients with special needs, such as HIV, mental illness, or homelessness.
Substance Abusers' Special Needs
Substance abusers often face other serious issues. These include health problems, poverty, parenting, legal troubles, disabilities, and more.
Case Manager's Knowledge
Case managers need to understand the problems their clients face. They must know where to find more information and when to ask for help.
Common Special Needs
Some special needs are more common than others. The document introduces these and how they relate to case management.
Key terms
- Case management
- A way to support substance abusers with other life problems.
- Special needs
- Serious issues that substance abusers may face, besides addiction.
- Case manager
- A professional who supports substance abusers with their needs.
- Competent
- Having the skills and knowledge to help clients with their needs.
- Epidemiology
- The study of how diseases spread and affect populations.
- Transmission routes
- The ways in which diseases can spread from one person to another.
Questions this document helps with
- Who might need case management alongside substance abuse treatment?
- How can case managers support clients with complex needs?
- What should case managers do when they do not know enough?
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