Topic Two - substance induced mental illness
1. When you go to the What is Comorbidity page...
Read the What is the treatment for comorbidity section.
Watch the video by Dr Rebecca Lee on providing comorbidity services.
Check out the Quadrant Model and see if it might inform your local services.
2. When you go to the Comorbidity – drug and alcohol induced mental illness page...
Read through the accounts of drug use causing psychosis, delirium, dementia and of alcohol use leading to vitamin deficiency, delirium and psychosis.
Watch the David Harewood video about the experience of psychosis
3. When you go to the Comorbidity research page...
Make sure that you study all the epidemiology tables and that you understand the relationships between substance use and mental health disorders. Make sure you understand what an odds ratio means.
Watch the video by Professor Paul Fletcher about the nature of psychosis.
Take a look at the Stoffers-Winterling et al. study of outcomes for people with Emotionally Expressive Disorder.
4. When you go to the Managing comorbidity page...
Study the section on mental illnesses
Watch Dr Jessica Bird’s video on how to manage psychosis.
Reflect on your understanding of ways to prevent serious mental illness and substance use. What are the most important learning points for your own practice.
