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Alcohol And Drugs Course

What will I learn?

Improve your skills as a healthcare worker with our Alcohol and Drugs Course, made to give you the important skills for treating people with drug and alcohol problems. Learn about how to use cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), understand motivational interviewing, and become good at running group therapy. Understand how drug and alcohol abuse affects our community, know the things that make people more likely to have these problems, and create good plans to help people get better. This good, hands-on course will help you deal with problems, check on how people are doing, and help patients successfully recover.

Apoia's Unique Features

Online course accessible for life
Certificate compliant with educational standards
Printable PDF summaries
Online support always available
Select and arrange the chapters you wish to study
Set your own course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, without needing internet access

Develop skills

Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below

Get really good at CBT to treat drug and alcohol abuse well.

Use motivational interviewing to encourage patients to change.

Create recovery plans that are just right for each person to help them stay clean.

Lead group therapy so people can help each other.

Understand how drug and alcohol abuse affects people and the Gambia.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.