The ExChange Calendar for 2016/17​

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• Monthly issue-focused workshops for practitioners 

• Biannual leadership workshops for service heads and other senior staff 

• Biannual conference

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All of our events are  free!*

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*for social care practitioners in Wales 

January 2017: Social work and alcohol

 

Dr. Wulf Livingston
Senior Lecturer in Social Work
Glyndŵr University

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This workshop will explore some current key discourses from research which helps understand the practice of social workers (and other health and social care professionals) in working with those experience problems with their or someone else’s alcohol use.

Through a mixture of presented material and facilitated group discussion it will cover the following key considerations:
 

• Policy contexts

• Professional knowledge acquisition and role confidence

• Initial conversations, assessment and brief interventions

• Interventions and treatment

• Family and carer perspectives

• Community , recover and peer-led support

 

​For more information contact: CASCADE@cardiff.ac.uk

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12 January 2017, Llandudno Junction
18 January 2017, Cardiff