Dual Diagnosis
Dual Diagnosis
typically refers to an individual person with a mental disorder,
co-occurring developmental disability and substance abuse
disorder. People suffering from a mental health illness
may turn to alcohol or alternative
drugs to come out of that depression.
The fields of mental
health and drug use
recovery have different cultures where integrated care can be challenging. One
of the things that make dual diagnoses
so difficult to treat is that it is hard to know where certain symptoms are
coming from an integrated intervention the best treatment for dual diagnosis
where a person receives care for both their diagnosed mental illness.
The causes for dual diagnosis is difficult to approach as they can be caused in
any way which affects their mental ability and it is difficult to identify as
the studies apply differing criteria in defining developmental disabilities and
their mental illness.