Mental Health Empowerment Project Case Study

ReDiscover Common Ground is a community support services program that serves the residents of south Jackson County and north Cass County who live with severe and persistent mental illness. ReDiscover Common Ground is located at 6801 E. 117th Street in Kansas City, Missouri and transportation is provided for ReDiscover “members” (clients). Many of the residents being served at ReDiscover suffer from a dual diagnosis (DD) and therefore, addiction recovery services play a large role in the support for these clients. The clients also come from low socioeconomic statuses and often are reestablishing their lives after being released from jail or prison.

The social service agency chosen to profile in this essay is COPE Community Services. They are located in Tucson Arizona and have many locations around town to better service and provide convenience for members. They provide integrated care for members. COPE's services include behavioral health, opioid treatment, medical services, therapy, youth services, and community health services. COPE accepts a wide range of members seeking services from the general mental health to severely mentally ill population. An Intake is completed to identify services for members. COPE accepts insurances from AHCCCS, Medicare, Tricare, and other contracted private insurances.

On February 9th at 7:00 PM, there was a 12-step program held in Christ the King Luther Church. The formal name of the 12-step program is Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA). When I researched for my 12-step group, I was trying to attend eating disorder Anonymous (EDA) because, in the culture of Korea, lots of Women are secretly struggling with bulimia nervosa and binge eating. However, during my research, I found FA which trying to focus on the fundamental cause of eating disorder and obesity, food. FA is a program of recovery based on the twelve step of alcoholics anonymous, and its take from within the context of overeater anonymous. “OA meetings were united by a shared definition of abstinence; the requirement

Twelve-Step facilitative therapy, TSF, seeks to increase attendance and involvement with 12-Step mutual support groups. According to Wells, et. al (2014) research supports TSF therapies to increase attendance and active involvement in 12-Step programs (AA). The attendance appears to effect use outcomes, and have long-lasting effects In Project MATCH (Nowinski & Carroll, 1998) researched how effective 12-step facilitation groups, (TSF), were for alcohol abuse treatment compared to motivational enhancement therapy (MET) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Kelly (2016), noted that TSF considers alcoholism to be both a spiritual and biological disease and treatment included that 12-step approach of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The TSF goal

This facility is a chemical dependency center. Treatments are designed to make recovery from substance abuse as rewarding and fulfilling as possible. Some of their treatment methods are based off the 12-step model.

These group models can be broken down into specific groups, such as early recovery, relapse prevention, 12-step psychoeducational, to name a few (SAMHSA, 2005). However, the search for literature on the efficacy of treatment groups for substance abuse disorders resulted in limited results. In one study by Gamble and Lawrence (2016), the researchers examined the current state of the 12-Step program and its long-term efficacy. They discovered in their literature review that studies surrounding 12-Step and other forms of treatment are scattered and not generalized for a diverse population (Gamble & Lawrence,

In this study, researchers explored the perspectives of people Dually Diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse of the Dually diagnosed Anonymous (DDA) programs derived from the 12 step program. Researchers conducted focus groups with 106 members from different settings. The focus groups included up to 10 participants and lasted about one hour. The focus group questions included members’ perspectives, personal experiences, impact of the DDA, what lead them to DDA, and if and how it helped them recovery. All the focus groups were audio recorded and transcribed. They found four primary themes from the transcriptions, feeling of acceptance from the member's, acceptance of their mental illness and addiction within their groups, structures

Outpatient and residential treatment programs require the client to participate in individual therapy, group therapy, and attend 12-step group meetings. Frequency of therapy vary with each program. A treatment plan is developed between the therapist and client with goals, steps to reach the goals, and monitoring the progress. The

The writer contacted Mountain Comprehensive Care (270)-825-0414 to verify their mental health process. The organization will provide mental health services.

Ms. Peters informed that the treatment plans at Orlando Recovery Center are all person-centered, person-controlled, and strength-based. The center provides integrated services for many mental disorders, including co-occurring disorders. The integrated services provided differ for each individual case but may include, cognitive behavioral therapy, strength-based cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, mode deactivation therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, psychoeducation, pharmacological therapy, and trauma-based structured writing therapy.

A person who has a substance abuse and a mental health disorder are identified as having a co-occurring disorder. Patients with substance use and mental health share common ground, because they hold the philosophy that treatment of chronic illness requires a long-term approach in which stabilization, education, and self-management are central (Drake, Mercer-McFadden, Mueser, McHugo, & Bond, 2016, p. 589). A counselor can help give resources (NA meetings being available in their community) as well as skills needed to help one not to relapse. Cognitive behavioral therapy, family counseling, and other therapy approaches can help people recovering from addiction stay clean ("counseling," 2017, para. 2). Psychotherapy can also treat the other

The recovery model is the process of healing from the effects of an illness meaning an individual regains what they lost from the illness and its treatment and moves beyond the illness and its limitations (Spaniol, Gagne & Koehler, 2002). It is also a personal experience for individuals as they move out of illness into health and wholeness (Ridgeway, 2001), meaning it allows an individual to learn how to cope with the effects of their mental illness and reach a higher functioning level (Anthony, 1993). Recovery occurs in several areas at different paces: emotional, relational, personal, spiritual, intellectual and physical. It is a shift from despair to hope, alienation to purpose, isolation to relationship, withdrawal to involvement

12 Step Work and Five Things It Means to You, whether others Understand or not

Group activity was focused on identifying the role that social network plays in the recovery. Group members learned how 12-step and mutual help programs support recovery, and explored the variety of 12-stap and mutual-help program available.

The treatment models used for this group are combinations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and psychodynamic