Intervención psicológica en pacientes con comorbilidad del consumo de cocaína y alcohol y trastornos de personalidad

Abstract

We face a complex dual pathology that has been historically associated with treatment failure. We know that many of the assumptions of some professionals have probably prevented further intervention strategies, are being questioned today because of findings from different investigations. Psychological intervention with drug users has a personality disorder going to overcome many challenges among which are: difficulties in establishing the therapeutic relationship, addressing egosintonía to involve the patient in treatment, the evolution of personality disorder absence of specific consumption or relapse, teamwork, the adequacy of relapse prevention programs to the specific arising from this conjunction, the use of specific therapeutic strategy for a particular patient at a specific point in its evolution and mainly the challenges connected with the difficulty we found when you want to modify personality traits. Overcoming these challenges is leading to satisfactory results in the treatment of drug addicts with personality disorders.