TABLE 6. Ten Preliminary Treatment Guidelines for Dually Diagnosed Adolescents
- Assessment is multipronged and ongoing and includes practitioner, parental, and self-monitoring so that treatment is responsive to the changing needs of the client.
- Treatment strategically enhances engagement and retention.
- Treatment plans are flexible and allow for client choice and voice.
- An integrated treatment approach is used to address both mental health and substance-related disorders concurrently.
- Treatment is developmentally and culturally sensitive to match the unique needs of the client system.
- Treatment is ecologically grounded and systems oriented, including important individuals to the client such as family members, friends, and school personnel.
- Treatment taps several domains of the client's functioning to enhance the client's problem-solving and decision-making skills, affect regulation, impulse control, communication skills, and peer and family relations.
- Treatment is goal directed, here-and-now focused, and strength based.
- Treatment requires active participation by all members involved, and includes homework assignments.
- Interventions aim to produce sustainable changes over the course of treatment.
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Note. Treatment guidelines developed by Kimberly Bender, David W. Springer, and Johnny S. Kim.
