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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet
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Background:
Substance Misuse in the UK is a major mental health problem. It can cause massive disruption
to the life of the sufferer and also to those around him or her. The evidence suggests that it is
an increasingly prevalent problem in the UK that needs actively addressing.
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Aims:
The aims of this course are to (a) introduce participants to the nature of abused substances,
what their effects are, what the prevalence of misuse is etc. and, more particularly, (b) to
equip participants with the most effective techniques for effective intervention.
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In 3 days you will cover a great deal:
• The range of misused substances. What they look like, what their effects are, who takes
them, and how they are referred to, colloquially and technically.
• The nature of addiction.
• Deciding when it is and is not realistic to work with a person.
• Initial assessment, case conceptualisation and measurement of progress.
• How to respond to people who clearly do have a misuse problem but deny it.
• Working with people who admit they have a problem and will discuss it with you, but fail
to do anything about it.
• Helping a person prepare realistic plans for overcoming their misuse.
• The role of self-help groups in misuse.
• How to support a person in implementing a feasible plan of action.
• Filling the gap: many people’s lives have become partly to depend upon their misuse.
Taking away the misuse removes a large part of their lives. What now?
• The maintenance stage. Once ‘cured’ the mistake is to pull out; how to help the person
maintain their new-found improvement.
• Capitalising on the ambivalence that people feel about giving up or reducing their misuse.
• How genuinely to persuade people of the benefits of resolving their problems.
• The role of motivational interviewing.
• How to notice – and generate – “self-motivational statements”.
• How to deal with resistance from clients.
• How to give advice in a way that is likely to be accepted.
• How to develop your own empathy for the client, and why this is important.
• The concept of ‘self-efficacy’ and how to develop this in the client.
• Being aware of the major traps in substance misuse, and how to avoid them.
• Key therapeutic techniques e.g. affirming and summarising.
• The important difference between a lapse and a relapse and how to respond to each.
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What you will gain from this course:
1 You will know about all the major mood-altering substances, colloquial terms for them,
what they look like, what their effects are.
2 You will know ‘addictive’ means and what is and what is not addictive.
3 You will have a reliable and effective format for working with people who misuse
substances.
4 You will know the major traps to avoid when working with substance misuse.
5 You will know about ‘motivational interviewing’ and ‘the stages of change’.
6 You will be better at dealing with clients who seem keen to block any progress.
7 In general, you will be able to take a more positive and effective stance in helping people
who misuse substances.
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Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet
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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,165 plus VAT.
We are happy to provide our courses anywhere in the world for the standard UK fee plus the cost of one business class return airfare from the UK to the location of the course.
Target Training Day also available on this topic – see Targeted Training Days.
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