Topic: mental illness
Dual Dilemma: When Addiction & Mental Illness Combine
The key to treatment success is an integrated approach: One treatment team treats both illnesses using an integrated treatment plan.
Topics: co-occurring disorders, counseling, depression, mental illness
A Model of Mental Illness
It may help in understanding how the problems that plague some of us throughout life may have come about. And hopefully, in doing so, remove a bit the shame and stigma that often accompanies such problems.
Topics: co-occurring disorders, mental illness, stigma, trauma
Three Basic Questions
Diabetics and heart patients are asked to make changes in lifestyle to reduce the risk of future crisis. Therapy is sometimes used to support those changes.
Topics: co-occurring disorders, mental illness
Adding Services for Co-Occurring Disorders
The key question involves which part of the COD population you’re going to serve. It’s not really a homogeneous group.
Topics: clinical management, co-occurring disorders, depression, mental illness, personality disorders, program development, treatment planning