9.15am | Arrival/coffee |
9.30am | Session 1 - Welcome- Introductions / objectives
- Ground rules
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9.40am | Session 2 – Understanding treatment resistant clients and the Blue Light approach- Who they are and the Blue Light approach
- Case study work drawing on participant experience – this material will also be used later in the session
- Tutor presentation of examples of the impact of the client group drawn from serious incident reviews
- The rationale for targeting them
- Group work, large group discussion, tutor input
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10.40am | Session 3 – Why is the client change/treatment resistant?
- Understanding barriers to change
- Using the barriers to change tool
- Discussion and tutor input
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11.00am | Coffee |
11.15am | Session 4 – What works with change resistant drinkers?
- This session looks at seven approaches which are evidenced to work with this client group. These include: outreach, nutrition, motivational approaches, and making small changes
- Group work and feedback
- Tutor input, Q&A
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12.30pm | Lunch |
1.15pm | Session 5 – the 8th technique: Giving enhanced personalised feedback
- This session introduces the 12 questions tool and also informs later harm reduction work
- Body exercise to identify / enhance participant’s knowledge of the impact of alcohol
- Introduce the 12 questions tool to identify key symptoms of the main alcohol-related conditions
- Group work and feedback
- Tutor input, Q&A
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2.15pm | Session 6 – Building engagement with alcohol services- How can non-alcohol specialist workers encourage clients to enter services and what can alcohol services do to help
- Group work and feedback
- Tutor input, Q&A
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2.45pm | Tea |
3.00pm | Session 7 – Risk assessment and harm reduction approaches- Introducing the alcohol-specific risk assessment tool and the range of harm reduction approaches
- Group work, feedback from groups, tutor input
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3.30pm | Session 8 - Containment strategies – legal powers- Group discussion on use of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Anti-social Behaviour powers exercise to contain difficult to engage substance misusers.
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4.00pm | Session 9 - Developing an engagement plan for an individual client- Return to earlier case study clients
- Group work to develop a new approach
- Feedback and discussion with tutor input
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4.20pm | Summary and evaluation |
4.30pm | Close |