Consumers’ Experiences in Dual Focus Mutual Aid for Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders:

Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment

HarlanMatusow¹ 

关键词: mutual-Aid;    co-occurring disorders;    dual-diagnosis;    focus groups;    Double Trouble in Recovery;    DTR;    12-step;   

DOI  :  10.4137/SART.S11006

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Mutual aid fellowships have been shown to improve outcomes for those with co-occurring substance use and mental illness disorders. Processes associated with usefulness include helper therapy (the assumption of a helping role to foster commitment) and reciprocal learning (the sharing of problems and solutions among members). The present qualitative investigation used focus groups comprised a subset of participants in Double Trouble in Recovery (DTR), a 12-step mutual aid group for those with co-occurring disorders, to gather their subjective perceptions of the groups. Participants emphasized that in linking them to others with similar problems, the DTR groups played a vital emotional role in their lives and provided a needed venue for information sharing that might have been otherwise unavailable.

【 授权许可】

CC BY