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Comorbid MHDs are highly prevalent in youth who are substance abusers" (Lamps et al. 265).

• Additional psychiatric disorders are increasingly present in adolescents who abuse substances
• Adolescents who misuse and abuse substances have higher presences of co-occurring psychiatric disorders.
• Adolescents who misuse and abuse substances have an increase in co-occurring mental health disorders than those who are abstinent from substance use. 

"CBT focuses on the interactions between behavioral, cognitive, social, and development factors to bring out not only changes in individual behavior, but all changes in his/her perceptions" (Deas and Thomas 183).

• Cognitive based therapy (CBT) targets the relationship between behavioral, cognitive, social, and developmental factors in youth to change their behaviors and perceptions. 
• By focusing on the behavioral, cognitive, social, and developmental factors, cognitive based therapy (CBT) is able to change adolescents behavior and their perceptions. 
• The core elements of CBT target the relationship between behavioral, cognitive, social, and development factors which contribute to positive changes in an adolescents behavior and perceptions. 

At the Medical College of Virginia, Lamps et al. explains the correlation between mental health disorders (MHDs) and substance use disorders (SUDs). It is seen that adolescents with SUDs have an increase in co-occurring disorders (CODs) such as MHDs like depression, anxiety, attention-deficit disorder/attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), etc (Lamps et al. 265). Such MHDs create psychological imbalances that may contribute to the causes of substance use and abuse. In addition to diagnoses, effective treatment for adolescents with CODs should address all disorders to ensure that underlying factors are also treated. From and article in The American Journal on Addictions, medical professionals Deas and Thomas provide an overview of adolescent substance abuse treatment. Within the five treatment modalities for adolescents suffering from SUDs, the most promising for co-occurring MHDs was cognitive based therapy (CBT). The core elements of CBT targets the relationship between behavioral, cognitive, social, and development factors which contribute to positive changes in an adolescents behavior and perceptions (Deas and Thomas 183). Specifically, the cognitive factors that may be imbalanced with MHDs can be focused on in CBT to try and improve overall psychological function.