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Hello students, in this question we are talking about a case study where there was a lady named jane who is 50 year old and she has a history of 12 years as an alcoholic and she has been found in three in four hospitals for detoxification and chemical dependency treatments none of which had a significant impact on her.
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She was court ordered to treatment for her third dui.
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After two weeks of treatment in the center the staff noted that jane rarely was seen sleeping.
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At night she would walk up and down the halls of the treatment center.
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She was also becoming more agitated more agitated and in group therapy also she was she alternated being between very quiet to agitated unable to sit and very hostile when confronted or probed for information about herself by the counselor.
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She was a topic of most staff meetings as her counselors complained about how frustrating it is to work with her and there was a discussion of discharging her.
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The other clients increasingly refused to associate with her because of her highly critical manners and her tendency to be emotionally explosive.
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What aspects of the situation indicate that she might be struggling with dual disorder and how would you initially intervene in this situation? so first of all dual disorder is not bipolar disorder as the name suggests.
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Dual disorder is when you have two conditions together that is with alcoholism that is addiction she is suffering from some other mental disorder as well...