with the help of a sponsor. Step 4: Make amends. Step 5: Openly confess the problem one has. Step 6: Be ready for negative point outs. Step 7: Request help to fix negative point out. Step 8: The actions taken may hurt other as well as oneself. Step 9: Avoid bad company. Step 10: Self-assessment progress. Step 11: Help others. Step 12: Keep following this process. Alternative routes for help is partial hospitalization, residential treatment, family therapy or individual therapy, recreation therapy, hypnotherapy, and relapse-prevention instruction. Ocean Hills is a recovery center and they have a dual diagnosis recreation plan which is to help people with addiction and mental illness. The approach to this dual diagnosis is a combination of social, medical, spiritual, and psychological interventions. …show more content…
The percentage of people with a mental illness and have an addiction is as follows: schizophrenia (47%), anxiety disorder (23.7%), phobia (22.9%), panic disorder (35.8%), OCD (32.8%), bipolar disorder (60.7%), and major depression (27.2%). Ocean Hill can diagnose the psychological problems and then target a person’s chemical abuse. “78% of cases show that a mental health condition goes along with substance abuse” (Ocean Hill). They try to give encouragement to the patient no matter which stage of recovery they are at. On the website it said, “...be giving... the perfect opportunity to identify the underlying causes of... addiction, learn how to establish positive and life-affirming relations…” these will additionally help with triggers (Ocean Hill). For clients who have had treatment and recovery should do the Fresh Start
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This essay will demonstrate an understanding of the clinical reasoning cycle which describes the procedure by which nurses gather prompts, process the data, come to an understanding of a patient’s problem, design and implement interventions, assess results, and reflect on and learn from the process (Hoffman, 2007; Kraischsk & Anthony, 2001; Laurie et al., 2001). The clinical reasoning cycle consists of five main stages, it comprises of; considering the persons condition, collecting indications and data, processing the information, recognizing problems/issues and detailing the assessment (Levett-Jones 2013). Throughout this essay these five main parts of the clinical reasoning cycle will be discussed and put into context. The first step of
Case conceptualization and treatment planning is used by therapist to assist in determining a client’s diagnosis, goals, and treatment plan that is most effective in determining the issues surrounding the clients diagnosis. It is crucial that the client’s treatment plan is specific to the individual, is relational and appropriate to the needs of the client.
Case conceptualization explains the nature of a client’s problem and how they develop such problem ( Hersen, & Porzelius, p.3, 2002) In counseling, assessment is viewed as a systematic gathering of information to address a client’s presenting concerns effectively. The assessment practice provides diagnostic formulation and counseling plans, and aids to identify assets that could help the client cope better with concern that they are current. Assessment is present as a guide for treatment and support in the “evaluation process. Although many methods can be employed to promote a thorough assessment, no one method should be used by itself” (Erford, 2010, p.269-270). Eventually, it is the counselor's job to gain adequate information concerning the client and the client's presenting concerns to establish an effective treatment strategy. Using a combination of assessment techniques increases the likelihood of positive interventions and promotes successful treatment (Erford, 2010, p.271). A case conceptualization reflects how the professional counselor understands the nature of the presenting problems and includes a diagnostic formulation. Case conceptualization organizes assessment data into meaningful outline, applying research, and theory to make sense of client’s current problem.
The purpose of Application of a Motor Learning Treatment for Speech Sound Disorders in Small Groups was to evaluate the effectiveness of motor-learning based therapy, also called Concurrent Treatment, within groups of up to four elementary public school students with disordered articulation, normal language, and normal hearing. The authors of this paper recognized that while many studies have been done to determine the efficacy of students in individualized therapy settings, few studies had been done to look at therapy within small groups. Therefore, the researchers tested twenty-eight 6-9 year old children within a small group using Concurrent Treatment. The children were able to acquire their targeted speech sounds within 40 30-minute sessions (20 hours over 20 weeks).
Discuss what you believe might be the causes or etiology of the chemical dependency and relapse, if
In practice I would utilize The Genetic Model. The Genetic Model is a model focuses on the inheritable aspects of addiction in the individual (McNeece & DiNitto, 2012). Genetics can affect an individual with disease such as cancer or drug addictions. Inheritable aspects that can affect the individual are genetic mutations and mirrors behaviors by the individual of their environment. The genetic model will also allow the social worker or councilor to look in to the history of the client in potentially establishing the addiction.
Each child will probably have many different kind of health issue during his or her infancy or childhood. In addition, for some children these illnesses are mild, they come and go, and they do not have negative influence on their everyday life and development. On the other hand, for some children, there are some chronic illnesses that have a huge effect on their daily life during childhood. Indeed, a chronic health condition is a health issue that last more than 3 months, and it has a big effect on on a child’s daily life, activity, and development. As a result, it demands more hospitalizations, extensive medical care, emergency care, and/or home health care. According to Weiner, “Each year in the US, 6 million children ranging
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If neither go treated, one or both of the illnesses are likely to become worse. If only one illness is treated, the other illness may become worse or treatment may be less effective or completely ineffective in general (Duckworth, Freedman, & Drake, 2013). More than one doctor may be necessary, as well as the need for medication. A patient’s psychologist, psychiatrist, and treatment center or recovery group should all be made aware that a dual diagnosis is present. As previously mentioned, treatment of mental illnesses are more effective when a patient has been safely detoxed and continues to abstain from the use of drugs and alcohol (Duckworth, Freedman, & Drake, 2013). Substance abuse treatment can begin in an intensive in-patient treatment center, followed by intensive out-patient treatment and regular participation in recovery groups such as 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, or other recovery groups that focus on living without substances and learning to cope with “life on life’s terms” ("Step 11," 2001). There are also sober living housing and group homes that can help a patient avoid relapse and continue successful treatment. What is important to understand is that the success of treatment depends on the patient’s involvement just as much as the involvement of all
New Diagnostic guidelines redefine addiction: changes may lead to earlier interventions, better prognoses. (2012). Mind, Mood & Memory, 8(10), 6.
There are many ways to categorize illness and disease; one of the most common is chronic illness. Many chronic illnesses have been related to altered health maintenance hypertension and cardiovascular diseases are associated with diet and stress, deficient in exercise, tobacco use, and obesity (Craven 2009). Some researchers define the chronic illness as diseases which have long duration and generally slow development (WHO 2013); it usually takes 6 month or longer than 6 month, and often for the person's life. It has a sluggish onset and eras of reduction for vanishing the symptoms and exacerbation for reappear the symptoms. Some of chronic illness can be directly life-threatening. Others remain over time and need intensive management, such as diabetes, so chronic illness affects physical, emotional, logical, occupational, social, or spiritual functioning. Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, all of these diseases are the cause of mortality in the world, representing 63% of all deaths. So a chronic illness can be stressful and may change the way a person l...
.... One such step would be going into a rehabilitation program. Here you would learn how to get over your addictions and how to deal with the other spiraled effects of it.
Motivation is often one of the primary obstacles in getting an individual to engage in the recovery process. Having worked in both inpatient and outpatient treatment facilities, I have experienced both motivated clients and unmotivated clients. Motivated clients enter treatment looking to change their lives. Those who are motivated have acknowledged that their lives have become unmanageable and are looking to recover. By entering treatment they are seeking professional assistance to help them overcome their addiction and get their lives back on track. The unmotivated clients may not in be denial about their problems, but quite frankly do not care at all about change and are only seeking a “break”
Substance abuse complicates almost every aspect of care for the person with a mental disorder. When drugs enter the brain, they can interrupt the work and actually change how the brain performs its jobs; these changes are what lead to compulsive drug use. Drug abuse plays a major role when concerning mental health. It is very difficult for these individuals to engage in treatment. Diagnosis for a treatment is difficult because it takes time to disengage the interacting effects of substance abuse and the mental illness. It may also be difficult for substance abusers to be accommodated at home and it may not be tolerated in the community of residents of rehabilitation programs. The author states, that they end up losing their support systems and suffer frequent relapses and hospitalizations (Agnes B. Hatfield, 1993).