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.