(PDF) Substance Abuse Causes and Consequences
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Running head: ANALYSIS OF SUBSTANCE-USE INTERVIEWEvaluation of interview on substance useName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1ANALYSIS OF SUBSTANCE-USE INTERVIEWMental health workers are appointed by residential mental health centres or psychiatrichospitals and are responsible for providing efficient healthcare services, and support torespective individuals or families who experience plethora of mental issues. The primary role ofmental health professionals encompasses offering counselling services and pharmacological ornon-pharmacological treatment that facilitates individuals and families to deal with mental healthproblems (Patel 2012). Therefore, it is imperative for all mental health workers to develop aneffective therapeutic relationship with all the patients and family members. Conduction of apsychological assessment assists the workers in understanding about the risk factors that increasethe likelihood of suffering from mental illnesses. Co-occurring mental disorders are most commonly found in combination with substance-use disorders among individuals, who are generally subjected to psychiatric services (Becker,Luebbe and Langberg 2012). These conditions increase severity of the mental symptoms,complicate treatment and often lead to poor health outcomes of the patients. Also referred to asdual diagnosis, such conditions refer to presence of both mental illness and substance abuse. Aclient is reportedly diagnosed with co-occurring disorders, when at least one type of disorder isestablished to be independent of the other (Ruiz et al. 2012). This essay will encompassevaluation of an interview that was undertaken by the Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative as atraining tool for mental health workers and counselors. Initial contact-Research evidences consider initial contact to be of utmost importancebefore an interview is conducted in the healthcare setting (Sommers-Flanagan and Bequette2013). The aforementioned video shows that the assessor, Jess introduced herself to the patientSteve and said that she would be identifying and talking about the co-occurring mental disorderprevailing in the patient. While introducing herself to the patient, the interviewer shook her
2ANALYSIS OF SUBSTANCE-USE INTERVIEWhands. Initial contact is most often assisted by adoption and portrayal of an empathetic approachthat helps a person to think and visualise situations and instances from another person'sperspective (Nabeel Al-Yateem 2012). The video demonstrates adoption of a formal approachwith the aim of establishing initial contact with the receiver. However, there was lack ofprofessionalism on the part of the interviewer in establishing initial contact. This could havebeen facilitated if she had asked Steve about his day so far, the place he lives, or the food he hadearly in the morning. Several evidences also support the existence of a wide range of myth andstereotypes regarding mental illness among all socioeconomic sections of the society (Clement etal. 2015). This makes people living in the community discriminate those who are mentallydisadvantaged, which in turn worsens the situation and acts as a barrier in the recovery process(Corrigan, Druss and Perlick 2014). Further difficulties are also associated with the fact that people suffering from mentalillness often have low self-confidence and lose hope that they will be able to leave a purposefuland meaningful life (Corrigan and Rao 2012). Most mental health care services suggest thatprofessional mental health workers should always adhere to standards of practice that makesthem adopt a non-discriminating and non-judgmental style while communicating with theirclients. Adoption of a non-judgmental approach helps the clients to understand that there is awillingness on the part of the workers to understand their concern (Thompson, Amatea andThompson 2014). The video also shows that there was failure on the part of Steve to maintainproper eye contact with Jess during the interview. His restlessness is demonstrated by checkingthe wall clock. Asking a close-ended question on whether he had attended a mental health careservice before also shows that Jess was judgmental while developing initial contact.
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