Consumers’ Experiences in Dual Focus Mutual Aid for Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders:

摘要: Mutual aid fellowships have been shown to improve outcomes for those with co-occurring substance use and mental illness disorders. Processes associated usefulness include helper therapy (the assumption of a helping role foster commitment) reciprocal learning sharing problems solutions among members). The present qualitative investigation used focus groups comprised subset participants in Double Trouble Recovery (DTR), 12-step mutual group disorders, gather their subjective perceptions the groups. Participants emphasized that linking them others similar problems, DTR played vital emotional lives provided needed venue information might otherwise unavailable.