The treatment of co-occurring substance abuse and bipolar disorder in intensive outpatient program environment | Charles W Graham | Community College of Aurora, USA |

Community College of Aurora, USA

The necessity to accurately screen, assess and diagnose co-occurring substance abuse and bipolar disorder in the treatment center

environment is the foundation upon which all treatment rests. Th e diagnostic criteria updated in the DSM-5 better represents the

spectrum of both disorders. Th is examination of eff ective intensive outpatient treatment as a step down from residential or therapeutic

community treatment and as an initial treatment approach integrates the traditional cognitive behavioral with psychodynamic and

somatic elements. Clients who are able to demonstrate abstract reasoning have been proven to benefi t from dream analysis, active

imagination and shadow work. Th is addresses the foundational underlying need for processing that can only be done aft er the client

is stabilized, behavioral cravings and cues adjusted and cognitive dysfunction treated. Th is presentation will bring evidenced-based

treatment to one of the most diffi cult client populations.

Dual Diagnosis