Upcoming Workshops
Families of Substance: A two day advanced masterclass in working with families
Increase your confidence and provide advanced interventions for families with alcohol and other drug issues
When: Thursday 28 November and Thursday 5 December 2024
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Duration: 7 hours (each day)
Location: Online
In this two day advanced masterclass, we take a deep dive into effective ways of working with families. Deepen your understanding and learn effective frameworks to guide your work. You will walk away with increased skills and confidence to assist families themselves or improve outcomes in your individual clients.
Working with families can be complex and challenging. Providing effective support for multiple people, often with misaligned perspectives raises the difficulty level for practitioners. Building on our Working with Families with Alcohol and Other Drug Issues workshop, this masterclass prepares you to use a proven method for effectively engaging and working with families. It provides a deep dive into the Orford stress-strain-information-coping-support model, combining elements of the Orford and the Velleman 5-step model. Learn key ideas from family therapy, motivational interviewing and cognitive behaviour therapy to work more effectively with the families and carers of people who use alcohol and other drugs.
Learning outcomes
- Understand models of family functioning and how that affects treatment
- Describe the stress-strain-information-coping-support model for working with families and how to use it in practice
- Establish a collaboration and utilise it to improve outcomes for people in treatment and their families
- Know how to utilise families' wisdom and coping to achieve improved outcomes
- Implement effective responses to the challenges of working with families
Who should attend
This is an advanced skills workshop suitable for experienced and advanced practitioners. We recommend you complete our Working with Families workshop before attending this workshop. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.
Facilitator: Paula Ross
“Paula is a wealth of knowledge and is generous in sharing it!”
- Workshop participant 2023
On 29 and 30 November 2023, we delivered Families of Substance: A two day advanced masterclass in working with families to 7 participants
The feedback was excellent
- 10 out of 10 would recommend the training to others
- Satisfaction was rated 8 out of 10
- Relevance to their work was rated 8 out of 10
"Paula's presentation and content were both excellent. The workshop was interactive and the information was relayed in an appropriate and translatable way"
— Workshop participant, 2023
Participants showed significant increases in knowledge, skills and confidence
Knowledge up 21%
Skills up 16%
