Community-based services for people who use drugs in Southeast Asia
This course was developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific to provide an introduction to community-based treatment and care services for staff of community-level services and drug treatment clinics. Such staff may not have qualifications in psychology, nursing, medicine or social work but nonetheless play a vital role in delivering essential services to people who use drugs (PWUD), and their families. Students of this course include, but are not limited to, welfare workers, community care workers, community-based case managers, outreach workers, peer educators, residential care workers, and others in ‘frontline’ positions in the field of drug and alcohol treatment.
The course materials have been produced as a complete training package to enable trainers to deliver a cohesive course with a minimum preparation time required. This manual is your main workbook and is a complete source of all that you will require to deliver this course. It includes all the content, instructions, references, resource materials and learning activities that you need to work through. It also contains additional information, links and identifies other resources you can use for planning and improving your learning. In this package you will find a comprehensive set of presentation notes with tips and recommendations. Additional information, references and other sources are also provided should you or the participants want more details on specific areas of the course content or related topics. As no two groups of participants or training sessions are exactly the same, you are encouraged to adapt the materials to best meet the training needs of the participants.
Chapter Titles:
- Introduction
- Drug and alcohol use
- The community-based drug treatment and care approach
- Screening and assessment
- Continuum of care
- Counselling
- The stages of change and relapse prevention
- Medical approaches to drug treatment
- Dual diagnosis - substance use and psychiatric co-morbidity
- Sustained recovery management
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- Introduction
- Drug and alcohol use
- The community-based drug treatment and care approach
- Screening and assessment
- Continuum of care
- Counselling
- The stages of change and relapse prevention
- Medical approaches to drug treatment
- Dual diagnosis - substance use and psychiatric co-morbidity
- Sustained recovery management