Women and Drugs
3 hours Educational Training Proposal
Women and Drugs
A productive world demands happy children with drug-free mothers
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Agenda:
Target 3.5 in SDG for addiction, the aim is to strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse i.e. narcotic drugs, over the counter prescribed medicinal use and alcohol.
Women faces stronger stigma and discrimination particularly related to prenatal care, regular healthcare facilities, after childbirth financial and family support.
Rationale:
Addiction is one of the brain diseases that demands ongoing interventions at different levels and involvement from a variety of experts to maintain lifelong recovery. Cultural humility for populations with special clinical needs and stakeholders’ engagement is the need of the hour. This workshop covers an overview about increasing trend of substance use among women and its complications with integrated model to prevent this population in our society along with 3 energetic activities related to media-based prevention.
Proposed Schedule:
Who can benefit: People who are working on addiction in any field or they have special interest to serve the community specifically related to women with addiction.
When: Preferably Thursday or Friday, December 12 or 13, 2024
Duration & Timings: 3 hours maximum between 10 am to 1 pm
Tentative Format:
Meet and greet with attendance
A mini 7 MCQs pretest for assessment of knowledge among participants
Differences between drug use among men and women
Commonly used drugs among women
The role of traumatic experiences and trauma informed care
Group Activity to brainstorm and recommend activities for women based on available resources to prevent unhealthy activities
A short break after 1.5 hour, in the middle of workshop, not necessary
Types of possible prevention
Discussion on help from Clinical Counselling Skills (CBT, DBT, ACT, MI and others)
Crises management, support groups and accessibility to recovery management
Final Individual Activity-
(Participants will try to create a slogan to support the special needs for women with addiction to raise the awareness about consequences and present the unique idea with the help of art, it will be a choice for those who would like to use colours to add image for their media slogan)
A post-test for evaluation of workshop effectiveness
Q and A session with Feedback
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A proposal by:
Trainer/Instructor/Resource Person: Dr Nazish Idrees Chaudhary
PhD Clinical Psychology
Assistant Professor, LSBS, The UOL
Internationally Certified Addiction Prevention Professional (ICAP-P)
Internationally Certified Addiction Treatment Professional (ICAP-I)
Internationally Certified Women’s Intervention For Substance Exposure, Comprehensive Care for Substance Use Disorder: A Specialized Curriculum (WISE-I, II, III, IV)
Certified Stakeholder’s Engagement Professional
by International Worldwide organizations i.e. DAP, Colombo Plan, ISSUP, ICCUDR and UNODC
International Research and Community Projects Collaborator funded by European Federation)