Week 11

Question 1

What does commodity mean

Answer 1

Referes to two disorders which coexist independently within one person

Question 2

How do drugs cause comorbity

Answer 2

The drugs itself can lead to symptons of mental illness or they can trigger an underlying vulnerability

Question 3

What are the most common comorbidities for men

Answer 3

Depression, antisocial personality, ADHD

Question 4

What are the most common comorbidities for women

Answer 4

anxiety, PTSD, borderline personality, eating disorders

Question 5

which factors have lead to a rise in comorbidity

Answer 5

de instutionalisation, greater availability of purer substances at lower costs, improved screening with increased programs and resources

Question 6

what is substance induced mental illness

Answer 6

drugs effects mimic symptoms psychiatric disorders, and symptoms of mental illness subside with abstinence

Question 7

what is substance independant mental ilness

Answer 7

substance use and a psychiatric disorder coexist and the disorder proceeds the drug and the disorder does not subside with absitience

Question 8

how do we know whether a disorder is substance induced or independant

Answer 8

by screening of presence of disorders 1 month after abstinence and looking at age of onset, symptoms during abstience and family history

Question 9

what is the poorest prediciter of remission from SUD

Answer 9

personality disorders

Question 10

which 5 pathways dive impulsive behaviour

Answer 10

lack of premediation, lack of perseverence, sensation seeking, negative and positive urgence

Question 11

which to pathway factors most drive addiction in cocaine users with PB

Answer 11

negative urgencey and lack of perseverence

Question 12

describe issues with treatment for dual disgnosis

Answer 12

patients tend to fall through the gap between services, dont respond as well to traditional therapy, and ae more liekly to drop out of treatment

Question 13

describe the link between suicide, hospitalisation and violence in cormibitities of mental health and drug use

Answer 13

they is moe siucide violence and hospitalisation

Question 14

describe the parallel or sequential model of treatment servise delivery

Answer 14

you can either have alcohol and drug treatment of mental health teatment and if it doesnt work try the other

Question 15

describe the double diagnosis model of treatment servise delivery

Answer 15

poeple with double diagnosis should have thee own treatment services

Question 16

describe the collaborative model of treatment servise delivery

Answer 16

Maybe having alcohol and drug treatments and mental healthy teatment is fine as long as they collaborate - saves money rather than making a whole new treatment

Question 17

describe the intergrated model of treatment servise delivery

Answer 17

alcohol and drug services should be intergrated into mental health therapy

Question 18

what is the wish list for treating comorbid issues

Answer 18

attitude chnage, training for cormorbid, better screening and assessment, referal, communication and a third service model