Continuing their commitment to promote the Universal Treatment Curriculum (UTC), Serenity in the Steps conducted a “Basic Counseling Skills for Addiction Professionals (UTC 4)" training session. It was delivered in a live training format with blended online components over a 10-day period. Clients of Serenity in the Steps were trained for recovery coach or peer support specialist credentials, among others, in Baguio City, Philippines. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and with quarantine measures in place, Serenity in the Steps successfully blended online and live training techniques to approximate a...

This free webinar-based training course on Motivational Interviewing (MI) is presented by Igor Koutsenok, MD, MS, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry.

Motivational Interviewing is an essential, client-centered, counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. We are absolutely thrilled to bring you this skills-building opportunity presented by a recognized expert in the field of MI.

The course consists of four sessions (originally held during June 2020).

Course Description

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The 8th Iteration of the Substance Use Disorder ( SUD ) Training for Criminal Justice Institutions and Universities of the Philippines – Walkthrough Training on the Universal Treatment Curriculum ( UTC ) 1 & 2 and Developing Community-Based Recovery Support Systems ( DCBSS ) Curriculum was held last February 3 -13, 2020 at the Novotel Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines.

This 1st training initiative for 2020 is supported by the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme and funded by International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Manila. Twenty-one participants for...

There have been extensive training sessions in the Philippines on The Criminal Justice System UTC.

The training encourages a whole government evidence-based approach and is courtesy of INL Manila - US Embassy.

Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Program Education Provider and ISSUP pioneer member, Serenity in the Steps, hosted a 6 day Universal Treatment Curriculum training for three major Philippine City Anti-Drug Abuse Councils from October 7-12, 2019. Makati city, Cebu city, and the Municipality of Agoo stakeholders participated in two of the first of a series of UTC trainings that would equip their respective community based recovery programs with evidence based tools.

The UTC 1 (Pharmacology and Physiology for Addiction Professionals) and UTC 2 (Continuum of Care for Addiction Professionals) trainings...

It is with pride that the very first special issue of the Philippines Journal of Psychology of the Philippine Psychological Association included our very own Global Drug Demand Reduction ( DDR ) Trainer, THERESE C. CASTILLO of Seagulls Flight.

The Philippine Journal of Psychology Special Issue on Drug Use and Recovery is now available online! Access it here and click on: https://www.pap.org.ph/philippine-journal-psychology-pjp

SPECIAL ISSUE: SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION AND RECOVERY
Volume 52 No. 1 June 2019

JOURNAL CONTENT

Sulong Kabataan: Design, Pilot Implementation, and Evaluation of a...