[An investigation into the effectiveness of integrated group therapy and prognosis for dually diagnosed patients an invitation for the dual-diagnosis patients to the 12 step group therapy for alcoholics].
During the past six years, we have provided integrated group therapy for dually diagnosed patients. Eight patients who had stayed at Narimasu-Kousei Hospital were introduced to the group. After completion of the therapy, they were all discharged until 2009. Four of them have successfully maintained abstinence from alcohol. Three patients had recurrent problems but they have stopped drinking again. The last one passed away due to a drinking accident. Another eighteen patients, who had been suffering from dissociative disorder, also attended the integrated group therapy. Fourteen of them have remained sober since the treatment, though only ten people have begun to enjoy AA meetings. Thirty-six psychiatric out-patients including four dually diagnosed were given a lecture on alcohol problems and alcoholics at day hospital. Two of them have decided to stop drinking.
Narimasu-kousei Hospital, 1-19-1 Misono, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 175-0091, Japan.
Megumi
M
Gotoh
D000328:Adult; D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D000368:Aged; D057229:Alcoholics; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult