Working with Female Offenders

Date/Location: A date and location for this course is currently being planned. If you would like to be added to the waiting list and informed of relevant location and date, please email enquiries@therightroute.co.uk.

This one day course is designed for specialist drug and alcohol service workers who wish to develop or enhance their knowledge and skills in working with women. The course will also be useful to more generic workers who want to improve their practice in relation to women drug and alcohol misusers. The course uses experiential learning methods whilst acknowledging the principles of adult and lifelong learning, providing participants the opportunity to discuss, and where appropriate, practice skill based interventions.

Who Should Attend

All practitioners / professionals working within the criminal justice, drugs, alcohol, housing, social services and residential / community detox / rehab field. It is especially useful to those who come into daily contact with female offenders / problematic drug users.

Learning Objectives

• Increase awareness of own attitudes and feelings towards women with drug and alcohol problems
• Explore how attitudes and feelings can help or hinder working with this group
• Enhance knowledge of current trends in patterns and levels of drug and alcohol consumption
• Enhance knowledge of psychological/social problems associated with drug and alcohol misuse
• Understand barriers to treatment for this group
• Enhance knowledge of risks of heavy alcohol and/or drug use in pregnancy
• Enhance knowledge of assessment tools
• Impact of domestic violence
• Practise use of assessment tools
• Enhance knowledge of treatment options
• Enhance knowledge of barriers to treatment
• Practice thinking about changing an aspect of behaviour
• Enhance knowledge of women with complex needs
• Practise appropriate interventions for women drug and alcohol misusers

This course is mapped to the relevant DANOS units. To enrol for this course, please fill in and return the TRR Booking Form.