The relationship between mental health disorders and substance use and integrated approaches.
Mental Health
Webinar: Gambling Co-Morbidity with Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
This webinar will examine the frequent co-occurrence of gambling disorders and other substance use and mental health disorders. It will look at the correlation between gambling and other disorders from the perspective of individuals presenting for treatment for gambling disorders and individuals presenting for treatment of substance use or mental health disorders.
Overlapping Issues: Domestic & Sexual Violence, Mental Health, Trauma & Substance Use
Many persons with substance use disorders have multiple vulnerabilities. Professionals must know the correlations, implications, and ramifications of these intersections. Clients have often experienced traumas, including domestic violence or sexual assault. Survivors of these crimes also experience trauma reactions such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Some have pre-existing conditions, while others develop them as a result of the traumas.
Reviewing Inclusion Health: An Intervention Programme for At-Risk Populations
Inclusion Health is a framework for action that helps find ways of improving the health and well-being for socially excluded groups. These populations, who have in common adverse life experiences and risk factors, such as poverty and...
Risk and Protective Factors for Substance Use in High-Risk Populations
There tends to be an increase in prevalence of substance use issues within populations living in urban areas and where poverty levels are high. Certain risk factors, more common in deprived areas, are particularly associated with substance...
The Power and Price of Survival: Understanding Resilience, Stress, and Trauma
2nd Edition, 2011: A series of strength-based resources developed by Pamela Woll for the Great Lakes ATTC, to help prepare the civilian mental health and addiction treatment workforce to address post-deployment stress injuries. This series...
Demographic and Mental Health Characteristics of Individuals who Present to Community Health Clinics with Substance Misuse
Abstract Introduction: Community health clinics (CHCs) are an opportune setting to identify and treat substance misuse. This study assessed the characteristics of patients who presented to a CHC with substance misuse. Methods: Personnel at...
Beyond Beds: The Vital Role of a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care
Summary Nearly 10 million individuals in the United States are estimated to live with a diagnosable psychiatric condition sufficiently serious to impair their personal, social and economic functioning. Hardly a day goes by without a study...
Unmet Treatment Needs for People with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
In the US, less than 10% of adults with co-occurring mental health problems and substance use disorders get treatment for both. 50% do not receive treatment for either. This highlights the vast discrepancy between the prevalence of co...
Brain, behavior and society: the revolution in the conception and mental illness care
Tuesday, October 17 / 11:00-12:30
Round table
Coordinator: María Elena Medina-Mora (ECN)
Brain, behavior and society, the revolution in the conception and mental illness care
Mental Health Training for Primary Health Care Workers and Implication for Success of Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care
Abstract Background Mental disorders remain a neglected public health problem in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), most people with mental disorders never receive effective care and there is a large treatment gap. In order to solve...