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Alcohol and Other Drugs and Mental Health
Masterclass – Co-occurring Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs
Workers who are innovative and responsive to ever-changing best practice standards do better quality work and last longer! Seize this opportunity to take your already established skills and knowledge to the next level. This workshop will utilise peer teaching & learning, and a range of activities crafted to hone your ability to respond to complexity. While the focus is on clients living with co-occurring mental health and AOD issues, it draws on a holistic, strengths-based...
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Power of Addictions
This workshop explores the relationship people have with AOD, how influential AOD can be and the dynamics when people choose to abstain from AOD. Drugs will be defined along with the patterns of drug use, how they are classified. The contributing factors which lead people to use AOD along with the environmental, biological, psychological, legal, financial influences of drug use. The impact of AOD use will be explored including the impact on indirect victims (eg. family members...
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Mental Health First Aid
This Mental Health First Aid course will teach you how to provide initial support to other adults who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis, using a practical, evidence based Action Plan. Many of our service users can add trauma, abuse or significant difficulties in life to the range of issues that may add to the likelihood of mental health concerns. We need to be able to recognize, support and respond in a way that supports people with mental health...
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Complex Trauma and Mental Health - AOD Setting
The Adverse Childhood Experience study (ACE study) outlines the detrimental legacy left in the wake of complex childhood trauma. Yet, these early negative experiences do not need to define or determine one’s life and experience of Self. Understanding the impacts of complex trauma and the relationship with adult mental health symptoms is a key step in transforming this legacy. Understanding the impact of complex trauma on the brain (neurological structures and functions), psychology...
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