Delivering substance use brief interventions: Working with Young People

This course is  on how to deliver a substance misuse brief intervention to young people. It is a discussion based course learning evidence-based skills to engage young people around their substance use and work with ambivalence. It also looks at how we manage substance use when it is beyond a brief intervention.

1. Why do young people use drugs
2. Working with ambivalence, the cycle of change and motivational interviewing
3. Delivering brief interventions
4. When is it a problem, screening and working with risk.

This course is for any professionals who work with children and young people where there are concerns about substance misuse.