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Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems: 2024, 26, 55

Intervention on Dual Disorders: the role of qualitative evaluation for psychopathology observation and psychotherapy research on causation

Emanuela Atzori

Digital Object Identifier:
https://doi.org/10.62401/2531-4122-2024-55

Summary: Clarifying causation in the intervention research concerning the Dual Disorders is a continuing process, which requires the use of various designs, methods and evidential pluralism. It can be explained and understood only when considered in a unique web of interacting powers, which determines a specific result. Process explanation and understanding lends the researcher to the in-depth study of one or a few case studies or small comparison samples of subjects and documented forms of data, which preserve the chronological and circumstantial connections between events. Recognizing the role of qualitative methods for psychopathology observation and psychotherapy research is paramount. In this perspective, clinical practice based on the Human Birth Theory can further the research, including in qualitative methods the evaluation of dream activity, considered as a relevant part of the human mind thought production, with the aim to shed light on the possible trigger mechanisms at the base of the phenomena under study. This inclusion can enable to develop theory building research involved in the testing of its application and to deepen and enrich an understanding of the subject of the investigation.

Keywords: Dual disorders; Psychopathology evaluation; Psychotherapy research; Qualitative methods; Evaluation of oneiric activity"