The Treatment Team Discusses the Plan of Care for a Patient

Multiple Choice

The treatment team discusses the plan of care for a patient with concurrent disorders of schizophrenia and daily cannabis abuse who is having increased hallucinations and delusions. To plan effective treatment, which of the following should the team do?

A) Provide long-term care for the patient in a residential facility
B) Withdraw the patient from cannabis, and then treat the schizophrenia
C) Consider each diagnosis primary and provide simultaneous treatment
D) First treat the schizophrenia, and then establish goals for substance abuse treatment