Alcohol - another little drink


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Most British people like to drink – always have done and always will. What seems to be happening though is that many of us, though not all, are drinking more than other recent generations and having worse hangovers. We still have a bit to go though before we catch up with the Victorians.
This one day training course is designed for frontline workers who deal with clients who may have problems with their own drinking or may be affected by someone else. The course enables workers to assess how much someone is drinking, look at the kinds of problem they may have and identify the kinds of services that may be appropriate. This course will provide the basic knowledge and skills required to identify how to respond to a client with an alcohol problem.

Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to:
• Calculate the strengths of a range of alcoholic drinks
• Use the unit measuring system to assess how much a client is drinking
• Describe effects of alcohol on the human body and how these changes affect behaviour
• Examine stereotypes of alcohol users and perceptions of alcohol use in society
• Recognise signs of problem alcohol use in a client
• Provisionally assess the levels of seriousness of a client's alcohol problem
• Clarify the parameters of their own role
• Make appropriate referrals to the main types of local and national services

Who will benefit from attending?

This course is essential for workers in non drug and alcohol agencies who may have affected clients

Length 1 day – 9:30 – 4:30 (or equivalent)

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Please note
All our courses are commissioned for groups and organisations. If you have more than three people who would benefit from working together on this topic, use the link at the the bottom of the page to contact me, or click here to find out more about getting us to deliver a programme.

We regret that we do not have an open access programme