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Monday, June 7, 2010

'Clarifying brief interventions' Academy briefing paper


A briefing paper Clarifying brief interventions' [pdf] has been released by the AERC Alcohol Academy. The paper aims to clarify key issues relating to the delivery of brief interventions and related practice, particularly distinctions in the types of interventions and their key characteristics.

The paper follows the Academy symposium 'Brief interventions: commissioning and delivery issues' - see here for presentations from the day. The seminar aimed to explore challenges in the delivery of brief interventions and responses for improving alcohol intervention approaches.

Findings from the online brief interventions survey conducted to inform the event are available in the report 'Results from the survey ‘Brief interventions (IBA): commissioning and delivery issues’ - download here [pdf]

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