PTSD And SUD: A Case Study

How is the Seeking Safety (SS) the only effective treatment intervention for co-occurring PTSD and SUD. Then go only and say that research evidence on SS is not straightforward on the primary outcome related to trauma symptoms and substance use. In addition there were no statistically significant differences found for the PTSD outcomes between the SS and other comparison groups. Also say that what works for sample of women with co-morbid PTSD and SUD in non-correctional setting does not work for women in the correctional setting. It is hard to believe that the SS is the only effective treatment intervention for these incarcerated females with mental illness. Maybe these interventions didn’t work because each person had different traumas experiences. The SS should have been conducted on other types of mental illness instead of focusing on those who had PTSD and SUD. It is a problem, but pretty sure there is a more effective
The clinical workers who were part of assessing the experiment were of different backgrounds and knowledge. This may have skewed the experiments because these workers may be assessing these participants and following the procedures for the experiments. However, with different knowledge and background they may have done the assessments different then the other workers would have. There was not enough information about the intervention plan, it did not say what were some topics that was covered during the individual meeting with the clinicians. There were only life choices game and the participants were given community resources. It is too vague. Like how is a piece of paper going to help these participants who suffers from trauma and SUD. Was the participants who only have PTSD only with others who have PTSD or where the participants mixed with those who are categorized as