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Addiction Language Guide
The Addiction Language Guide serves as a comprehensive resource designed to address and combat stigmatizing language associated with addiction. Stigmatizing language often involves attaching negative labels and stereotypes to specific...
Health & Wellness in Recovery: Programs & Topics
The American Addictions Centers provide insights into how a healthy diet and exercise can enhance overall health and recovery. This resource offers an overview of the root of addiction and how to overcome it through healthy life habits...
Journey to Wellness Guide
Longtime wellness expert and creator of the 8 Dimensions of Health Dr. Peggy Swarbrick has published a new tool- a Journey to Wellness Guide.
This Journey to Wellness Guide is designed to help people find new ideas to use to begin or...
How the media can play its part in reducing the stigma surrounding substance use
In this blogpost, produced by academics from the University of Stirling, the authors discuss the See Beyond – See the Lives – Scotland campaign, which involves the stories of those left behind after losing a loved one to alcohol and drug...
Healing Families, Helping Systems: A Trauma-Informed Practice Guide for Working with Children, Youth & Families
This guide is concerned with advancing understanding and action about trauma-informed approaches that support program and service delivery for/with children, youth, and families. A trauma-informed approach is a system-wide approach that is...
Guida pratica per l'implementazione di un approccio basato sul trauma
La guida si concentra in particolare sugli strumenti e le strategie per l'implementazione di un approccio informato sul trauma. Questa guida evidenzia la necessità di una valutazione organizzativa della prontezza e della capacità prima di...
Indagine nazionale sull'uso di sostanze e sui servizi di salute mentale (N-SUMHSS), 2021: dati sull'uso di sostanze e sulle strutture di trattamento della salute mentale
L'N-SUMHSS è un'indagine annuale volontaria su tutte le strutture per l'uso di sostanze attive e la salute mentale negli Stati Uniti, nei suoi territori e a Washington. Il rapporto annuale presenta i risultati sul profilo generale dell'uso...
The Power of Resilience
Expanding Access to and Use of Behavioural Health Services for People At Risk for or Experiencing Homelessness
This guide highlights strategies for behavioural health and housing providers to conduct outreach and engage with individuals experiencing homelessness, initiate use of behavioural health treatment as they wait to receive stable housing and...
Key considerations to integrate HIV and mental health interventions
A new publication by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the importance of integrating HIV and mental health services and other interventions, including linkages to social protection services, for people living with...
Comorbidities in Drug Use Disorders: No wrong door
This discussion paper aims to highlight the evidence related to mental and physical health comorbidities in drug use disorders and to promote the development of innovative, evidence-based policies and practices to treat drug use disorders...
Trattamento dei disturbi da uso di droghe e dei disturbi di salute mentale associati in ambienti carcerari e ospedali forensi
Il presente documento di riflessione è stato preparato dall'UNODC a seguito di varie richieste di assistenza tecnica da parte degli Stati membri sul trattamento dei disturbi da consumo di stupefacenti e dei disturbi di salute mentale...
The complexity and challenge of ‘dual diagnosis’
This Drug and Alcohol Finding publication addresses a hot topic which generates heated debate- dual diagnosis.
Whether to focus on mental health problems or substance use problems when the patient exhibits both is a long-standing...
Malattia mentale e abuso di sostanze: doppia diagnosi
Questo documento è stato compilato in risposta a una richiesta MLA sulla complessa questione della "doppia diagnosi" nel contesto della fornitura di servizi. In particolare, il documento fornisce quanto segue:
- Una panoramica della...
Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure (COPE): Therapist Guide (Treatments That Work)
Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure (COPE) is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy program designed for patients who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a co-occurring alcohol or drug...
Multiple disadvantage and co-occurring substance use and mental health conditions.
Substance use and mental health needs are two of the primary concerns for many people experiencing multiple disadvantage. We know that people who experience both issues at the same time (also known as “co-occurring conditions” or “dual...
Breaking the stigma in academic writing
In this blog post and guide, Dr. Stephen Parkin shares his observations about the use of stigmatising words and phrases in academic writing, and offers a list of person-centred and pragmatic alternatives.
Guida linguistica di Words Matter
La necessità di cambiare il nostro linguaggio in relazione alle persone che fanno uso di droghe è diventata un argomento di discussione crescente, ma c'è ancora molta strada da fare. Le persone che fanno uso di droghe sono molto diverse e...
Lavorare con le persone anziane in sfollamento forzato
Questo documento fornisce indicazioni al personale e ai partner dell'UNHCR sulla protezione dei diritti delle persone anziane in situazioni di sfollamento forzato o apolidia.
Nel rispondere alle fasi dello sfollamento forzato (fuga...
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