Twenty-five professionals participate in the ninth edition of the course on dual pathology organized by the Confederation
Professionals belonging to the associative network of SALUD MENTAL ESPAÑA trained on pathology during two consecutive days with the aim of improving their knowledge and intervention tools.
From School of Mental Healththe SALUD MENTAL ESPAÑA Confederation held on March 23 and 24, in Madrid, the face-to-face part of the training course “Approach to Dual Disorders in the SALUD MENTAL ESPAÑA network” aimed at professional profiles. This training is framed within the Program “Catalogue of training in mental health and addictions for the network of associations of the Confederation of MENTAL HEALTH SPAIN”, which subsidizes the National Plan on Drugs of the Ministry of Health.
The objective of the course was to provide the professionals of the associative network of SALUD MENTAL ESPAÑA with knowledge, learning and techniques that improve the intervention with people with dual pathology, that is, with those who have both a mental health problem and an addiction.
A total of twenty-five professionals, twenty-four women and one man, from thirteen autonomous communities and the autonomous city of Melilla, participated in what is already the ninth edition of the course. Among these people are professionals in Psychology, Social Work, Social Education and Social Integration. The training was developed in the blended modality and had a study load of 20 hours, 5 of them, at a distance.
Through an active and participatory methodology, combining individual work and group work, the training favored the exchange of ideas through debate, reflection and group dynamics, and also reinforced the creation of work networks and for the exchange of good practices.
About dual pathology
Dual pathology is understood to mean the simultaneous existence in the same person of a mental health problem and an addiction, whether due to substance use (alcohol, drugs) or behavior (gambling, online betting, mobile or Internet addiction, buying compulsive, video game addiction, etc.).
Dual pathology is a serious health problem, not only due to its increasing frequency in today’s society, but also due to the lack of training among professionals in the different devices and the scarcity of specific resources.
For this reason, the Confederation calls for a comprehensive intervention of dual pathology, greater coordination between professionals of different profiles, family intervention programs to promote their role in the recovery process, as well as the participation of the person with their own experience in the development of individualized care plans. In addition, SALUD MENTAL ESPAÑA considers it necessary to raise awareness in society, especially younger people, about the risk that drug use entails in triggering mental disorders.
This was the eighth edition of the course.
