The seminar is suitable for mental health professionals and students, other professionals who work in the drug abuse field in various treatment & prevention settings, educators, lawyers, medical doctors, nurses who are interested in the subject.
It investigates, among many aspects of the subject:
- The understanding of the drug use, abuse, dependence continuum,
- The biopsychosocial etiology of the phenomenon,
- The counselling and treatment approaches to the problem
- Evaluation
- Treatment planning
- Placing in the treatment continuum
- Phases of therapy
- Drugs and the family
- Family oriented interventions
- Special populations