Practitioners Specialty Track 1: Family-based Prevention- 87Hrs.

Training Hours
87 training hours

This track gives an overview of the science inherent in family-based prevention interventions and the methods used to intervene effectively in order to prevent substance use in children and adolescents. It also provides experiential learning in some of the skills used in effective family-based intervention methods to prepare prevention implementers to participate in such programmes. The track consists of seven courses.

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UPC 11: Understanding Families: Diversity and Context

This courses presents research about the diversity of families within and across countries, how family structures differ and how families may function differently. It also discusses how family practices influence youth substance use and related problems and some basic skills for working with families.

UPC 12: Interventions with Families - Basic Models and Skills

This course discusses general models of interventions with families such as the Family Partnership and Family Development Models. It also presents some examples of evidence-based interventions that prevent substance use.

UPC 13: Family-based Interventions: Skills & Evidence-Based Programs

This course presents some of the best family programmes with the best evidence that target families with children of different ages such as: Nurse Family Partnership Model as an example of Home Visiting models for helping families of infants and toddlers; The Incredible Years and Dare To Be You intervention models to intervene with families of young children; Strengthening Families for Parents and Youth 10-14; and Multi-systemic Therapy intervention models which demonstrate skills used by professionals to intervene with families of adolescents.

UPC 14: Interventions with Groups - Management and Processes

This course describes the concepts related to the management and processes of conducting multi-family group interventions that include identifying stages of group dynamics that occur in this type of intervention, characteristics of effective group leaders, skills of organizing a group, some common problems that occur with the structure and process of running family-based interventions in groups and challenges that might happen in groups.

UPC 15: Barriers and Challenges to Family Interventions

This course examines on some of the common barriers and solutions to implementing effective family-based prevention programmes in the community, such as, local customs and practices that may limit family participation, and some of the possible solutions that help families participate, despite barriers. It also examines different reasons for adapting programmes and illustrates the best practices in adapting programmes to make them match with the local culture.

UPC 16: Interventions with Families: Ethics, Supervision and Self- Care

This course explains the basic principles of and application to working with families based on a model of ethical decision-making. It also examines concepts related to basic child maltreatment, intimate partner violence definitions and reporting, elder abuse, suicide and homicide in youth and adults, and burnout as well as steps for creating a self-care plan.

UPC 17: Monitoring and Evaluation of Family Programs

This course discusses the importance of and application of monitoring and evaluation to family- based prevention interventions, the process for developing a monitoring system, and the purposes of process and outcome evaluation for family-based prevention interventions.