Clinical supervision, staff support and solid self-care routines are integral for all staff who work in the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) service sector. This is true both for therapeutic staff and those in related frontline roles, such as needle syringe program (NSP) workers, allied health staff and receptionists.
Helping people can be stressful and leave workers feeling anxious or exhausted. In the AOD service sector, at any one time, a number of the clients will be in crisis, stressed, …
Providing presentations and workshops is an area that has evolved for me, beginning nearly twenty years ago, with informal training sessions to my supervision groups on topics as diverse as alcohol and other drugs, how to work with anxious clients, managing work stress and boundary setting. The sessions that I offer have developed in recent years. In addition to informal training, I now provide some more structured workshops, modifying them to fit the needs of individual organisations …
BA, BSW, AMHSW, Graduate Diploma in Family Therapy, MACA Level 4