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Towards integrated care for patients with dual diagnosis: the Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust experience
- Author:
- GIBBINS Jood
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 3(4), December 1998, pp.20-24.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Reports on a project to instil confidence in clinical staff in dealing with dually-diagnosed clients by impairing the necessary skills. Discuss the success and drawbacks encountered during the project.
The triangular treatment paradigm in dual-diagnosis clients with a mental illness
- Authors:
- SIMS John, IPHOFEN Ron, PAYNE Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Substance Use, 8(2), June 2003, pp.112-118.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article looks at the role of the specialist dual diagnosis worker in North Wales and how the appointee to this role had been able to facilitate the seamless transition of these individuals through the 'system' of mental health care. This process has been facilitated by the development of an Integrated Pathway of Care, which has been devised by the authors and called the Triangular Treatment Paradigm.
The implications of dual diagnosis for service provision
- Author:
- JOHNSON Sonia
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 3(4), December 1998, pp.14-19.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Seeking effective ways of developing services for people with a dual diagnosis of severe mental illness and substance misuse has been one of the major tasks undertaken by service planners and health service researchers in the United States in the last 15 years. Discusses models of service provision in the USA and looks at how dual diagnosis treatments might be incorporated into UK services.
Impaired judgment: a useful symptom of dementia?
- Authors:
- HEAD L., BERRIOS G.E.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(9), September 1996, pp.779-785.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
'Impaired judgment' remains a diagnostic (and predictive) criterion for delirium, dementia and substance-related disorders, and yet its diagnosis and measurement are hampered by the absence of an operational definition. Most of the important research into judgment as a psychological function has been carried out in development and industrial psychology, in the experimental analysis of perception, medical diagnosis and legal decision-making. Models generated in these fields, although important, are only tangentially relevant to 'impaired judgment' as it is met with in clinical practice. This article explores some models of judgment and their application to dementia. It concludes that judgment is not a unitary function but a composite of subroutines. Hence, both low-and high-level analyses are required: the former to explore aetiology, differential diagnosis and treatment, the latter for the assessment of psychosocial competence. A model for the understanding of judgment is also suggested.
Personal and social functioning: a pilot study
- Authors:
- HUDSON Walter W., MATHIESEN Sally G., LEWIS Sarah J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 74(1), March 2000, pp.76-102.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This article describes a study that seeks to determine the extent to which nine psychometrically sound measures of problems with social functioning account for seven different reliable and valid measures of problems with social functioning. The strong psychometric characteristics of the measures used make it possible to examine comprehensive predictive models, and this provides insight into the ways that the social environment affects personal adjustment.
Double trouble
- Author:
- BOYD Deirdre
- Journal article citation:
- Addiction Today, 10(57), March 1999, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- Addiction Recovery Foundation
Describes a model for treating dual diagnosis patients and looks at the necessary training involved.
Brief report: dual diagnosis - a treatment model for substance abuse and major mental illness
- Authors:
- BRADY Stephen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 32(6), December 1996, pp.573-578.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The treatment of "dual diagnosis", co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness, calls for addressing two serious and often confounding problems. The authors introduce an expanded version of the transtheoretical model of change as formulated by J.O.Prochaska and C.C. DiClemente, and suggest that this new version offers a pragmatic approach to the conceptualisation and treatment of dual diagnosis. The potential utility of the treatment model is presented through the authors' experiences in working with inner-city, chronic mentally ill individuals with substance abuse problems. The potential utility of the treatment model is presented through the authors' experiences in working with inner-city, chronic mentally ill individuals with substance abuse problems. Practical guidelines for dual diagnosis group therapy are discussed.
Social work in the Netherlands: current developments
- Editors:
- HESSER Karl-Ernst H., KOOLE Wibo
- Publisher:
- Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Faculty of Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 127p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Amsterdam
Introduces social work in the Netherlands and goes on to look at: social work and drug addiction - the Amsterdam model; female social work or gender-specific social work with women and girls; gender-specific social work with men and boys; the office for children of drug addicted parents; Opstap, a preventive home based programme; social work with people with learning difficulties, older people, migrants, people with mental health problems, and young people; AIDS prevention; community development; child welfare; and an overview of social work education in the Netherlands.