Creating an Agency Integrated Treatment Program for Co-occurring Disorders.

This article concerns the creation of a community agency's integrated mental illness and substance abuse co-occurring disorders assessment and treatment program, with a focus on the barriers and strategies encountered as its development progressed. The discussion of barriers was framed according to the factors (attitude, mastery, leadership, staffing, policies, workflow, and program monitoring) identified by Moser and colleagues (Moser, DeLuca, Bond, & Rollins, 2004) in their comparison of the implementation of Assertive Community Treatment and Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment. It was found that resolution of these barriers was important to the implementation of this program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]