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Care Planning and Relapse Prevention

Every client is unique, and many, if not most have complex needs. Some may require the support of more than one agency, which will require efficient co-working across services, and the effective management of the client’s time and treatment priorities. All clients’ needs are constantly changing in response to their changing circumstances. When viewed in this context, the ability to devise and implement a comprehensive and workable care plan is a core skill for a drug worker.
This course will cover the care planning process from start to finish, beginning with tactics for obtaining essential information from clients at the outset and setting treatment goals, through coordinating with other service providers and supporting clients as they use external services, to regularly reviewing the care process with clients themselves.
When a care plan has been drafted it will then be audited against relapse prevention principles to ensure that it does not create high risk situations.
This course will show participants how to build relapse prevention into the care plan.

Objectives

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

• Obtain information about individuals and what they require from the service
• Negotiate treatment goals with clients
• Agree a course of action with clients to enable the treatment goals to be met within   available resources
• Liaise with other service providers to ensure resources and that action is as co-ordinated as possible
• Support clients using services provided by other organisations
• Ensure that the care plan is reviewed with the client

DANOS unit:

AG1 Develop, implement and review care plans for individuals
For more information on how we use DANOS click here

Who will benefit from attending?

The learning on this course is essential for all front line workers especially those who may be alone with clients.

Length 2 days – 9:30 – 4:30 (or equivalent)

This course is designed and delivered in association with DrugScope

DrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs and the national membership organisation for the drug field. Our aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related harms - to individuals, families and communities. We provide quality drug information, promote effective responses to drug taking, undertake research, advise on policy-making, encourage informed debate - particularly in the media - and speak for our member organisations working on the ground.

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