Integrated Treatment Model

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Essential Qualities of an Effective Treatment Program for Co-Occurring Disorders Name: Bivu Chhetri Wilmington University. 3 TREATMENT MODELS Integrated Model: Integrated model treatment is the treatment, which helps to treat mental illness, and addiction in the same time .the primary goal of this treatment is to treat a client fully mentally and physically. Sequential Model: This treatment is the first model introduced in the history of the co-occurring treatment. This model deals only with one disorder i.e. metal disorder or substance use disorder. Parallel Model: In this model, both disorders are treated but simultaneously. Integrated treatment is preferred a model Integrated treatment is preferred model for …show more content…

We cannot give the same treatment and care to the clients. We should care them based on their disorder. • Treatment services coordinated with support service Many individuals with co-occurring disorders need additional support services to ensure their long-term recovery. These services include such items as financial aid, housing support, health concerns, employment supports, and spiritual resolution (Hendrickson, p.29). Risk and important to coordinate with other supportive service The risk would occur if any of these qualities are left out because every client come from different background and have an illness and a different perspective of life. If any of these qualities is mussed in the process of treating the clients will not recover in time. As the recovery process, prolonged clients will start seeing and feeling faults on them and will have a negative thought in them, which will again prolong their treatment process. It is important to coordinate with other supportive services because, after recovery, clients need a shelter, food and a job for a living. For example, a homeless man was treated and was fully recovered and it is time to release him. As he is released from the institute he/she does not have any place to go. As he does not have option he will end up living on the street again and slowly he will adapt his previous life.so it is important to coordinate with other services for their future after the treatment by providing financial aid, housing, training, and

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