Upcoming Workshops
Working with Families with Alcohol and Other Drug Issues
Understand the inner workings of the brain on drugs and how to work effectively with cognitive impairment
When: Coming 2025
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Duration: 7 hours
Location: Online
In this workshop we offer effective, evidence based strategies and framework to help you engage better with families. You will walk away with increased confidence and skills to understand and work with family members as clients in their own right or as participants in your work with individuals.
Work more effectively with families and carers of people who use alcohol and other drugs, whether the person using drugs is in treatment or not. This workshop focuses on the impact of alcohol and other drugs on families and models of responding using principles of Jim Orford’s stress-strain-information-coping-support model. You will find out how to blend strategies from family therapy, motivational interviewing and cognitive behaviour therapy into effective treatment when working with families with alcohol and other drug problems.
Learning outcomes
- Understand how to engage families using a range of effective response options
- Learn how to support families to using a comprehensive model that can apply to any family dynamic
- Apply new strategies to help improve family cohesiveness and cooperation
- Learn ways to respond to complexities in working with families, such as confidentiality and consent
Who should attend
This is a specialist skills workshop suitable for new, experienced and advanced practitioners. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.
Facilitator: Paula Ross
“Facilitator [Paula] delivery was great. She kept me thinking and reflecting on my own personal practice and made me think [about] what I can bring, add or alter so that it fits my line of work.”
- Workshop participant, 2023
On 13 June 2024 we delivered Working with Families with Alcohol and Other Drugs Workshop to 9 participants
The feedback was outstanding
- 10 out of 10 would recommend the training to others
- Satisfaction was rated 10 out of 10
- Relevance to their work was rated 9 out of 10
“Very interesting new way of working with families, trainer was engaging and informative, nice mix of discussions and videos. Was great.”
— Workshop participant, 2024
Participants showed increases in knowledge, skills and confidence