SELF-PROCESS IN COMORBID MENTAL ILLNESS AND DRUG ABUSE

• Published in: American journal of orthopsychiatry Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 639 - 644
• Main Authors: Sharp, Mark J, Getz, J. Greg
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK American Orthopsychiatric Association, Inc 01-10-1998; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; American Orthopsychiatric Association; Educational Publishing Foundation; American Psychological Association
• Subjects: Addictive behaviors; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Biological and medical sciences; Comorbidity; Drug Abuse; Human; Humans; Impression Management; Medical sciences; Mental Disorders; Mental Disorders - complications; Mental Disorders - psychology; Mental health; Mental Illness; Mentally ill people; Miscellaneous; Models, Psychological; Preventive medicine; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychosocial Factors; Risk Factors; Self Presentation; Serious Mental Illness; Social Influence; Social Influences; Stigma; Substance abuse; Substance-Related Disorders - complications; Substance-Related Disorders - psychology; Theories; Human; Social influence; Drug addiction; Concomitant disease; Social interaction; Theory; Alcoholism; Mental disorder
• ISSN: 0002-9432; 1939-0025
• DOI: 10.1037/h0080372

A theory of social influence is proposed as a framework within which to examine the psychosocial processes that underlie substance abuse among persons with severe mental illness. The theory's potential to account for some of the empirical findings in the mental health and substance abuse literatures is discussed, and implications for research are offered.