Citation

Kandel Y. Arch. Psychiatry Psychother. 2007; 9(1-2): 61-67.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Polish Psychiatric Association)

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Abstract

Dual-diagnosis mentally ill patients, i.e. those characterized with substance abuse problems combined with mental health problems, are a challenge both for systems treating substance abusers and for mental health services. These patients are not easily integrated in either of these health care systems and/or are treated only for one aspect of their problem by each of these systems. For such patients, it is necessary to create a separate treatment model, combining care of the problem of substance abuse and attention to the patient's mental pathology, according to his individual personality traits. For purposes of this program, a treatment setting operating on the model of a therapeutic community is proposed. This setting will open an affiliated treatment program for dual-diagnosed patients, which will not be part of the therapeutic community but will be affiliated with it.

Language: en

Keywords

human; Schizophrenia; schizophrenia; suicide attempt; personality; major depression; bipolar depression; substance abuse; article; mental disease; antidepressant agent; mental health care; hospital admission; patient care; psychologic test; mental health service; neurosis; behavior therapy; anxiety disorder; mental patient; psychiatric diagnosis; hospital discharge; detoxification; health care system; low drug dose; group therapy; diagnostic procedure; Pathological; sociopathy; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Dual diagnosis; Egocentric; Sociopathy