Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
On this course, an overview of approaches to addiction treatment, from detoxification to harm reduction and addiction recovery was provided. The course presented real life examples from experienced practitioners around the globe and introduced various addiction assessment tools. How to conduct screening and brief interventions, and administer naloxone in the case of an overdose, were some of the topics covered.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Catherine Comiskey
Professor in Healthcare Statistics and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the EMCDDA and Academic Director of CHARM-EU.
Trinity College Dublin
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore non-stigmatising approaches to addiction treatment and recovery using a harm reduction approach
- Develop practical skills in assessment and screening of clients for addiction use
- Evaluate the risk and protective factors for people who use substances and their families
- Identify practical skills in using brief intervention with clients
- Identify practical skills on administering naloxone
- Reflect on how to identify your client needs and implement a model to improve your practise
Syllabus
- Overview of the approaches to addiction treatment, from detoxification to harm reduction and recovery
- The health and wellbeing of the person who uses substances, assessment, screening and brief interventions
- Family members and people who use substances from pregnancy to adolescents to grandparents and inter-generational substance use
- The practicalities of working in specific services from advising expectant mothers to managing medication misuse among older people and administering naloxone during overdose
- Enhancing your service provision, identifying client needs and implementing the Healthy Addiction Treatment (HAT) recovery model in nursing and other services
- The role of leadership and the practicalities of implementing a change in policy or practice
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Issued on 7th February 2023
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