The Workforce Development Branch, Drug and Alcohol Office in collaboration with the Mental Health Division, Department of Health is pleased to offer the Semester 2, 2009 Training@DAO calendar. The calendar provides a range of alcohol and other drug (AOD) knowledge and skills-based training events conducted by experienced professional trainers.
| What’s new The Semester 2, 2009 calendar provides professionals with a mix of new training and popular repeat events.
Sessions include: - Culturally secure ways of working with Aboriginal people and families experiencing AOD use problems
- Therapeutic treatment options for AOD using clients who have experienced child sexual abuse
- Working with the distress a substance problem can create in a couple’s relationship
- Assisting AOD using clients to manage their emotions
- Post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol and drugs
- Effective and ethical cross-cultural applications of Western therapeutic paradigms for comorbid presentations
- Interactions between substance use and psychiatric medications
- Stepped care approaches to managing young people with comorbidity problems
- Treating clients effectively with comorbidity problems.
| The calendar also provides training on core knowledge and skills to support those working with AOD using clients, and an induction training course for new AOD workers. A range of education and training events is offered over two semesters each year: February – June and August – November. All events are free-of-charge. Numbers are limited for each event. | IMPORTANT
We ask applicants who are offered a place on an event to make a commitment to attend. If you are unable to, please advise us as soon as possible, as we may be able to offer your place to another applicant. |
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KA/ST027 Ways of working with Aboriginal people – Part 1 & Part 2
Part 1 - Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Part 2 – Tuesday, 20 October 2009 ST247 Drugs and alcohol, sexual violence and mental health
Thursday, 20 August 2009 ST244 Who is ‘addicted’ to what? Working with the distress a substance problem can create in a couple’s relationship
Thursday, 3 September 2009 ST202 Skills training: Working with AOD using clients
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, 14-16 September 2009 ST245 ‘I’m all over the place’: Helping drug clients manage their emotions
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 ST249 Post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol and drugs
Friday, 16 October 2009 ST246 Does one model fit all? Effective and ethical cross-cultural applications of Western therapeutic paradigms for comorbid presentations
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
KA031 Substance use and interactions with psychiatric medications (with a focus on psychostimulant drugs and anti-psychotic medication)
Thursday, 19 November 2009 ST250 Developing stepped care approaches to youth comorbidity
Wednesday, 2 December 2009 AOD Sector Training Program | The following events are only for people working in the AOD sector. |
ST248 Better outcomes for clients with comorbidity
Monday, 3 August 2009 ST222 Induction training for new AOD workers
Monday to Friday, 26 – 30 October 2009 (5 days)
KA/ST027 Ways of working with Aboriginal people – Part 1 & Part 2
Part 1 - Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Part 2 – Tuesday, 20 October 2009
| Presenters: | Wendy Casey, Manager & Cliff Collard, Senior Workforce Development Officer, Aboriginal Alcohol and Other Drugs Program, DAO |
Part 1
This knowledge-based training forms part of the Strong Spirit Strong Mind series. The training introduces models and concepts that provide an overview of the history of Aboriginal people including traditional life and family systems, colonisation and Aboriginal realities today. It explores the impact that history has had on alcohol and other drug use in the community and provides broad intervention frameworks based on empowerment principles.
Part 2
This skills training is a follow on from Part 1. The session also forms part of the Strong Spirit Strong Mind series and builds on culturally secure concepts and models, and introduces resources to respond to Aboriginal alcohol and other drug use.
To attend Part 2 training, participants are required to have attended Ways of working with Aboriginal people – Part 1.
Target audience: Workers who have Aboriginal clients: individuals and families. Aboriginal workers are encouraged to attend.
Part 1 - Application deadline date: REGISTRATION CLOSED
Part 2 - Application deadline date: 2 October 2009
Enquiries: Lisa Huntley, telephone 9370 0368, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
Click here to download Event Application Form
ST247 Drugs and alcohol, sexual violence and mental health
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm
| Presenter: | Judi Stone, Acting Manager, Workforce Development Branch, DAO |
There is a strong relationship between mental health problems, drug and alcohol use, and people who have experienced child sexual abuse. People working in the mental health or drug and alcohol field can find it challenging working with sexual abuse issues and can often feel as though they don’t have the skills or knowledge to address sexual abuse. The focus of this workshop will be on the links between these behaviours, and the therapeutic options available. This workshop will also include information specifically about issues affecting males who have experienced sexual abuse.
Target audience: This workshop is recommended for workers with limited experience working with sexual abuse issues who currently work with clients affected by mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues.
Application deadline date: REGISTRATION CLOSED
Enquiries: Nicole Cronin, telephone 9370 0327, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
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ST244 Who is ‘addicted’ to what? Working with the distress a substance problem can create in a couple’s relationship
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 9.00 am – 12.30 pm
| Presenter: | Sandy Williams, Clinical Psychologist in private practice and Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Murdoch University |
When one partner has a substance use problem, the other partner can become ‘addicted’ to efforts to control it, and a cycle of mutual distress escalates and compounds the situation, when ideally the relationship needs to be the crucible for managing the problems together. Curiously each partner can feel almost exactly the same range of emotions (e.g. fear) and can inflict the same range of unhelpful behaviours (e.g. attack) on one another. How can we understand and help to break this cycle, and allow the relationship to do the best job it can under the circumstance?
Target audience: For workers with a background in substance use problems but who do not have a lot of experience in couples therapy
Application deadline date: 20 August 2009
Enquiries: Lisa Huntley, telephone 9370 0368, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
Click here to download Event Application Form
ST202 Skills training: Working with AOD using clients
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 14-16 September 2009, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm (each day)
Presenters: Workforce Development staff, DAO
This core training is presented over three days and each session is designed to build on skills sequentially. Topics include:
• effective AOD counselling skills and techniques
• engaging and forming the ‘helping’ relationship
• systemic concepts and approach
• getting and keeping things moving – raising the issue and assessment, motivation and change
• problem - what problem?
• keeping on track – challenges to change
• back to square one – managing relapse
• where to from here?
• other issues including client confidentiality, duty of care, worker self-care.
Target audience: New workers and others wanting to refresh their skills in working with alcohol and drug using clients
Application deadline date: 28 August 2009
Enquiries: Nicole Cronin, telephone 9370 0327, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
Click here to download Event Application Form
ST245 ‘I’m all over the place’: Helping drug clients manage their emotions
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Presenter: Dr Ali Marsh, Clinical Psychologist
Affect regulation difficulties are common among people with substance use problems. They can manifest as depression, anxiety, fluctuating moods, emotional ‘melt-downs’ or explosive anger, which can make it hard to behave consistently, have a solid sense of identity and stop using. This workshop will explore the causes of affect dysregulation, links between affect dysregulation and substance use, and how to help clients manage their emotions better.
Practical strategies will be drawn from various perspectives including dialectical behaviour therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, and general stress management. Activities will include skill demonstration and skill practise.
Target audience: For professionals working with AOD using clients.
Application deadline date: REGISTRATION CLOSED - EVENT FULLY BOOKED
Enquiries: Lisa Huntley, telephone 9370 0368, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
Click here to download Event Application Form
ST249 Post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol and drugs
Friday, 16 October 2009, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm
Presenter: Dr David Cockram, Psychologist and Australian Vietnam infantry combat veteran
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is at its core a consequence of failed memory processing. Why do some people recover from trauma and others develop long-term PTSD and related problems? There is a consistent finding that people with PTSD are more likely to have problems with alcohol and other drugs (AOD). For example, 60% to 80% of Vietnam veterans seeking PTSD treatment have alcohol use disorders. This workshop will identify the criteria for PTSD, the role of personality and discuss effective treatments.
Target audience: For professionals working with AOD using clients
Application deadline date: 2 October 2009
Enquiries: Nicole Cronin, telephone 9370 0327, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
Click here to download Event Application Form
ST246 Does one model fit all? Effective and ethical cross-cultural applications of Western therapeutic paradigms for comorbid presentations
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm
| Presenters: | Dr Bernadette Wright, Specialist Clinical Psychologist, WA Transcultural Mental Health Centre
Heather Jacobson, Senior Workforce Development Officer, DAO |
Our Western cultural understanding of mental health, substance use and counselling treatment is not universal. This workshop will question and examine the impact of a ‘blanket’ application of conventional therapeutic practice for a multicultural client group experiencing problems with their mental health and substance use. The principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Narrative Therapy will be compared and contrasted with a view to developing a culturally sensitive intervention model. Participants will then be given an opportunity for skills rehearsal and feedback.
Target audience: For workers who have a role in responding to AOD/mental health issues with CaLD clients
Application deadline date: 3 November 2009
Enquiries: Lisa Huntley, telephone 9370 0368, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
Click here to download Event Application Form
KA031 Substance use and interactions with psychiatric medications (with a focus on psychostimulant drugs and anti-psychotic medication)
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 9.00 am – 12.30 pm
| Presenters: | Dr Gordon Shymko, Clinical Director, PaRK and Rockingham Mental Health Services
Paul Reilly, Service Development Manager, PaRK Mental Health Services |
Some mental health clients continue to use substances whilst being prescribed psychiatric medications, including anti-psychotics and anti-depressants. The interactions between these drugs are complex and can be harmful, increasing the risk of illness relapse or prolonged recovery.
This workshop aims to highlight the complex effects of this poly drug use on the individual’s behaviour, health and mental state, and provide information to assist clinicians working with individuals presenting with co-morbid substance use and mental health problems.
Target audience: For professionals working with AOD using clients, who also have co-existing mental health problems, particularly psychosis
REGISTRATION CLOSED - FULLY BOOKED
Enquiries: Nicole Cronin, telephone 9370 0327, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
Click here to download Event Application Form
ST250 Developing stepped care approaches to youth comorbidity
Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm
Presenters: Associate Professor Dan Lubman & Dr Steve Carroll, Orygen Youth Health, University of Melbourne
Early onset or frequent alcohol or cannabis use during adolescence, increases the risk of developing mental health problems as well as a range of other adverse outcomes during late adolescence and early adulthood. Similarly, depressive and/or anxiety symptoms during adolescence can increase the risk of substance use problems in young adulthood. The high rates of co-occurring depression/anxiety and substance use disorders in community and clinical surveys of young people further highlights the importance of targeted prevention and early intervention programs for young people.
In this workshop, a stepped care approach to managing co-occurring depression/anxiety and substance use in young people will be presented. Workshop participants will develop skills in using motivational interviewing and psychoeducational strategies, formulate appropriate coping plans, and learn how to apply relevant integrated CBT strategies to the management of young people with co-occurring disorders.
Target audience: For professionals working with AOD using clients
Application deadline date: 17 November 2009
Enquiries: Lisa Huntley, telephone 9370 0368, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
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ST248 Better outcomes for clients with comorbidity
Monday, 3 August 2009, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm
The following event is only for people working in the AOD sector. | Presenter: | Gary Croton, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Eastern Hume Dual Diagnosis Service, Victoria |
This one-day workshop will further develop worker’s skills and confidence in facilitating better outcomes for clients with comorbidity. The workshop will review various approaches to identifying co-occurring mental health symptoms and disorders; develop skills and knowledge around Mental State Assessment processes and terms; increase knowledge of various mental health treatment options as well as increase knowledge and skills around seeking and providing effective secondary consultation in relation to mental health symptoms and disorders.
The primary aim of this workshop is to increase workers enthusiasm for, and self efficacy around, identifying and dealing effectively with AOD client’s co-occurring mental health symptoms and disorders.
Target audience: For professionals working with AOD using clients
Application deadline date: 17 July 2009
Enquiries: Lisa Huntley, telephone 9370 0368, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
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ST222 Induction training for new AOD workers
Monday to Friday, 26 – 30 October 2009 (5 days), 9.00 am – 4.30 pm (each day)
The following event is only for people working in the AOD sector.
Presenters: Heather Jacobson, Senior Workforce Development Officer and other Workforce Development staff, DAO
This training program aims to equip new alcohol and other drug (AOD) workers with the foundation knowledge and skills required to work effectively with clients presenting with AOD problems.
The five-day course will comprise:
• models and frameworks for understanding drug using behaviour
• drug information and strategies for reducing drug-related harm
• AOD specific communication skills, including engaging and raising the issue
• the change process including motivational interviewing, problem solving, goal setting and relapse prevention and management
• strategies for working with clients either voluntary or mandated
• other issues, including client confidentiality and duty of care.
Target audience: New workers in the AOD sector who have a role in responding to AOD issues with clients
Application deadline date: 12 October 2009
Enquiries: Nicole Cronin, telephone 9370 0327, email DAO.Education@health.wa.gov.au
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