ALCOHOL SCREENING WITH THE AUDIT - QUESTIONNAIRE - The Multi-Professional Training Program in the City of Helsinki

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ALCOHOL SCREENING WITH THE AUDIT -
QUESTIONNAIRE- The Multi-Professional Training
Program in the City of Helsinki

• City of Helsinki
• Substance Abuse Prevention
• Specialist Leena Alho

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• We have translated and modified
• the AUDIT questionnaire into different
  languages Finnish, English, Swedish, Estonian
  and Russian.

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• We have edited two quides for the social work.
• And written a short AUDIT - manual for nurses and
  social workers.

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The multiprofessional training program

• We have developed the training program in order
  to implement the AUDIT (WHO 2001) into practice.
• We train social workers and nurses in small
  groups.

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Our training program contains

• First the theory part, includes AUDIT, brief
  intervention and refferal to treatment (approx.
  3h).
• Second the practice part, workers use the
  method in their own work (approx. one month).
• Third the supervision part, we discuss the
  workers experiences together in groups (approx.
  3h).

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The situation today

• We have trained over three hundred social workers
  and nurses during two years.
• Thousands of clients have been tested and given
  help in the health and social services.

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What else have we done?

• We have organized annual AUDIT gatherings
• We have taken part in health and welfare
  happenings
• We have acted as consults in different workgroups
  in early alcohol intervention related issues
• We have been active in planning the alcohol
  strategy for the city