Assessment and treatment of alcohol use disorders: the Alcohol Care Team approach
Course information
Level
Introductory
Course information
Level
Introductory
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Topics covered
- Assessment of alcohol use and alcohol use disorder
- How to deliver a structured brief intervention
- Safe medically-assisted withdrawal: monitoring, pharmacology, and complications
- Alcoholic liver disease: identifying, referring, and implications for management of dependence and withdrawal
- Basic psychiatric risk assessment: theory and practice
- Alcohol-related brain damage and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: prevention and management
- Psychosocial approaches to alcohol dependence
- Onward care: relapse prevention medication, mutual aid, and forms of aftercare
- The patient’s perspective
Learning objectives
- Perform a thorough assessment of someone presenting with alcohol use disorder
- Plan and carry out a safe medically assisted withdrawal from alcohol
- Deliver a brief intervention around alcohol use Plan and implement relapse prevention strategies
- Arrange appropriate screening and follow-up for alcohol-related liver disease
- Perform a thorough assessment of someone presenting with alcohol use disorder
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Target audience
MH nurses (incl trainees), Healthcare assistants, Social workers, Psychiatrists (incl trainees), General hospital doctors , Allied health, Psychologists (incl trainees), General hospital nurses, Support staff (e.g. admin), Assistant psychologists, GPs, Academic staff, Senior general nurses in A&E, acute assessment units, and acute medical wards
Psychiatry liaison nurses
Mental health nurses in community settings
Dual diagnosis workers
Doctors from medical specialities
Liaison psychiatrists
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