Therapeutic Interventions for Alcohol Addiction.
This one day training for mental health clinicians covers the main psychotherapeutic approaches to treating alcohol addiction: clinicians leave equipped with an array of skills to help clients in their recovery. We cover:
- Models for understanding addictive behaviour
- National and international statistics relating to alcohol use
- Physiological and psychological risks of alcoholism
- Pharmaceutical interventions
- Motivational interviewing techniques
- Harm reduction approach
- Dialectical abstinence
- Abstinence approaches (such as Alcoholics Anonymous)