Comorbidity of mental illness and substance abuse has become increasingly common, this study examines social factors that can influence the stability of comorbidity and also aims to identify themes linked to comorbidity in relation to social work. By applying a systematic literature study a search was conducted through various databases and a total of 14 articles were reviewed. The method for analysis was a qualitative thematic analysis and the results are based on the themes that were identified, these were; treatment (motives, engagement and results), trauma (childhood trauma) and social factors (including social support, age and gender). The results show that several factors have been identified. Factors that can influence treatment outcome and stability of comorbidity are not single independent factors. These can be a combination of several factors that can be influenced by several circumstances. The results also show that information about abuse motives can be predicting to treat the comorbidity. To have access to social support during the treatment is also predicting for the treatment outcomes, social support can be given by family, friends, group members from the treatment setting or from the treatment therapists. Traumatic experiences among individuals with substance abuse is very common and it has shown that many clients use substances to relieve the symptoms that occur as a consequence of trauma. Other factors can also influence the stability of comorbidity such as demographic characteristics. Most of the articles show that age and gender can affect the treatment outcome. It has shown that where the clients are a majority in the characteristics (either gender or age) the treatment result is better for them compared to the minority group. Finally the author discusses the relevance of social work and the conclusions from the analysis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-57637 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Mohammad, Zainab |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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