by Lisa Frederiksen
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA) is committed to promoting evidence-based and promising practices in serving persons with mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders. They’ve produced a new series, The Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Knowledge Informing Transformation (KIT) series, with materials that provide innovative, engaging, and effective learning tools that help shape mental health services toward recovery.
One I’d like to especially draw your attention to is titled, “Co-Occurring Disorders: Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment.” With over half of persons who have an alcohol misuse problem also having a mental illness, known as a dual diagnosis (aka, a co-occurring disorder), it is important to learn more about this new evidence-based treatment practice. This treatment approach helps people recover because it offers both mental health and substance abuse services at the same time and in one setting.
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