The personality-targeted approach has many advantages over more traditional CBT intervention approaches. First, in line with a more dimensional approach to understanding risk for psychopathology, interventions can be delivered following brief personality assessment, and their delivery is rarely delayed for the purpose of diagnostic clarity, which is often the case in clinical practice. Furthermore, because they target traits that are associated with risk for substance use, they can be helpful in the context of prevention but also appear to be equally helpful when targeting substance use problems that have already had their onset. Finally, the traits targeted in the personality-based approach are also relevant to non-addictive psychopathology and therefore have potential to be dually effective in reducing substance use and mental health concerns among individuals with concurrent disorders. Indeed, emerging results are showing that the personality-targeted approach holds promise for concurrent disorders [44, 64, 82].
