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Mental Health & Substance Use Recovery Training Conference
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Treatment
Motivational Interviewing: Changing Client Relationships with Alcohol
This two-day course will help empower practitioners engaged in the alcohol sector to develop knowledge, skills and confidence in using Motivational Interviewing to enable behaviour change in clients and groups.
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SRNT-O Inaugural Conference
The inaugural SRNT-Oceania Chapter conference will be held in Sydney, Australia.
The aim of the conference is to share and celebrate the highest quality research and practice targeting tobacco use reduction and smoking cessation in Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations throughout Oceania and the region.
The conference will be held on the 24th and 25th of October at Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf in Sydney.
Motivational Interviewing for Substance Use
Harmful use of alcohol kills more than 3 million people each year. 35 million people are estimated to be suffering from drug use disorders. Tobacco contributes to the death of more than 8 million people a year around the world. It is...
Journal for Advancing Justice Volume II
Opioid-related morbidity and mortality in the U.S. has been steadily increasing over the last two decades. In 2017 alone, 2.1 million Americans suffered from opioid use disorder (OUD), and 47,600 died from opioid overdose. Predictably, the...
Nonverbal Communication
Nonverbal communication is the act of conveying a thought, feeling, or idea through physical gestures, posture, and facial expressions. A study conducted at UCLA found a majority of communication to be nonverbal, although the study’s exact...
Motivational Interviewing. Change: Desire, Ability, Reason, Need, and Commitment
This blog includes videos, podcasts and other resources to learn more about motivational interviewing and other counselling approaches.
The Readiness Ruler as a Measure of Readiness to Change Poly-Drug Use in Drug Abusers
Abstract Readiness to change is a crucial issue in the treatment of substance use disorders. Experiences with methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) has shown that continuous drug and alcohol use with all its consequences characterize most...