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The most important stage in treatment? Discuss and explore the skills needed to be effective in engaging with some of society's most marginalised people. Examine a range of different assessment techniques and brief interventions to enable you to enhance your practice. Plan a process that is useful for both the person approaching the service and the worker providing it.

  
     


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Course Outline

    
Aims
  • To establish best practice techniques in engaging and assessing drug and alcohol users
  • To enable workers to reflect on their own practice and skills
    

Participants will have had opportunities to:

  • Develop a variety of ways of engaging successfully with people
  • Develop an awareness of our assumptions and prejudices
  • Gain an understanding of the importance for workers of initial assessments
  • Gain an understanding of the usefulness for service users of initial assessments
  • Practise active listening skills
  • Practise the assessment procedure
  • Develop knowledge of risk assessments
    

Agenda

    

Times

Session Content

Methods

9.30

Introductions, Domestics, Group Agreement

 

9.45

 

 

10:15

 

 

10:45

The first time ever I saw your face. What was I thinking?

Observational assessments, prejudices and assumptions

 

How we engage successfully with people.

What skills and qualities do we need? Active listening skills.

 

Initial screening

What are the key things we need to know about when we first start working with drug and alcohol users? What is our role?

Exercise in pairs on initial judgements

Thoughtstorm and reflection on your own experiences. Practice in pairs.

Exercise in small groups

11.00

Break

 

11.20

 

 

 

12:30

The Golden Rules of delivering triage and full assessments

How do you make an assessment useful for a service user?

How do you make an assessment important for the agency?

 

Finding the way. The routes through treatment.

Care Plans, Goals, Pathways and Referrals

Presentation

Case study / role play

 

 Small group work

1.00

Lunch

 

2.00

 

 

2:45

Measuring risk or safety?

What is risk? Reflecting on risk in life and in work.

Assessing complex needs

It’s the little things that make the difference

Retaining clients in the process

Presentation & group work

 

 

Presentation

3.00

Break

 

3.20

One chance only – brief interventions.

Crisis Intervention, Signposting, Advice and Information

Discussion

3.50

Course review and feedback to trainer

Input & questionnaire

4.00

Close

 

    
     
DANOS Units - AA1, AB5, AF1, AF2