1st Edition

The 2 x 4 Model A Neuroscience-Based Blueprint for the Modern Integrated Addiction and Mental Health Treatment System

By Robert Andrew Chambers Copyright 2018
304 Pages
by CRC Press

304 Pages
by CRC Press

304 Pages
by CRC Press

Over a quarter century of studies have shown that addictions, mental illnesses, and their combinations ( dual diagnoses ) are pervasive in the general population. Meanwhile, emerging neuroscience is revealing that the neurodevelopmental basis of major mental illness and addiction diseases are tightly interconnected and often unified pathologies of the brain. This science calls into question the... Read more

1. Introducing the 2 x 4 Model

2. Clinical and Neuroscience Basis for the 2 x 4 Model

3. The Illness Dimension: Integrating Equal Focus on Both Mental Illness and Addictions

4. The Treatment Dimension: Vertical Binding of Diagnostics, Psychotherapies, Medications, and Communications

5. Diagnostics

6. Psychotherapeutics

7. Medications

8. Communications

9. Professional Team Composition and Physical Infrastructure

10. All Together Now: Vertical and Horizontal Binding in the Functioning 2 x 4 Model Clinic

11. Professional Training and Research in the 2 x 4 Model Clinic

12. Building 2 x 4 Model Clinics and Systems: Local to International

Biography

R. Andrew Chambers, MD is Director of Addiction Psychiatry Training at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He is a graduate of Centre College (chemical physics/mathematics; 1991), Duke University School of Medicine (MD; 1996), and Yale University Psychiatry (2000) and Basic Neuroscience Programs (2002). After completing the IU Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (2012) and earning certifications in Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and Addiction Psychiatry (ABPN), Andy has practiced and taught Addiction Psychiatry at Midtown Mental Health Center in Indianapolis. His research, supported by the Veterans Administration, the American Psychiatric Association, and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), has pioneered rodent models of dual diagnosis, contributing to our understanding of neurodevelopmental mechanisms that drive addiction disease in adolescence and mental illness. Andy’s basic, neuro-computational, and health systems research aims to translate to a better future of integrated addiction and mental health care and professional training.