Alcohol and Loss - a course from alcohol-drugs.co.uk

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Course Rationale.

Drinking is a common way of dealing with personal pain and stress. Some clients start drinking because of transitions in their lives and complicated feelings about loss. Many have unresolved loss issues in their past.

Aim: to enable participants to identify loss issues that impact on drinking behaviour

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to: -

Describe the inter-relationship between alcohol and loss

Use models of grief and bereavement in their work

Separate their own issues to do with loss from those of the client

Identify issues associated with complicated grief

Use a range of verbal and non -verbal techniques with a client to enable them to move through the grieving process.

Share experiences of working around loss with clients

Length – 2 days

Who will benefit from this course This course will be useful for all workers who have clients with alcohol problems and counsellors in particular.

Major causes for chronic drinking, especially in older people are bereavement and loss. Drinking may help to soothe the pain and also evoke the images of the pleasant times when we used to...

There are also often multiple losses involved in giving up drinking.

People may lose status, friends and a social environment. There is also the actual pleasure of the drinking experience - the presence of friends, a nice warm pub, .the taste and texture of the beer

For some too, drink or drugs may have caused them to lose almost everything that matters and as a result they may be in the grip of very difficult emotions.

If people have had a loss they must be allowed to grieve for that which is gone - this need to grieve may be very unwelcome to the client and the people around her.

This course looks at common models for working with grief and aims to develop ways in which a client who is experiencing bereavement may be supported.

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