Concurrent Disorders
What is a Concurrent Disorder?
An individual with a Concurrent Disorder is an individual with a mental health disorder (such as a mood, anxiety or personality disorder; or a severe and persistent mental illness like schizophrenia) combined with a substance use disorder (substances may be alcohol, psychoactive substances, polysubstance use, tobacco).
For more information about the program and career opportunities, please check the FAQs section and Program overview.
Working in the Field of Concurrent Disorders: is it for me?
It may be if you have previous human service professional education (Social Service Worker, Social Worker, Child and Youth Worker, Nursing, Occupational Therapy) and/or experience and:
- You are committed to assisting individuals with Concurrent Disorders on THEIR path to recovery.
- You have a client-directed philosophy
- You can work within a harm reduction framework
- You recognize and accept that change occurs with individual readiness and may take a long time.
- You recognize that intervention occurs in many different ways and in many different settings.
