On February 2021, ISSUP Lebanon hosted its first webinar of the year entitled, ‘Prevention of Drug Use and Other Risky Behaviours in Youth: From Evidence to Policy and Programs’, with Lilian Ghandour, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the American University of Beirut on substance use epidemiology and evidence-based prevention programs. The webinar had 456 attendees and discussed the importance of adopting a public health approach to substance use prevention, and to using epidemiological data for the planning and evaluation of all programs and interventions aimed at preventing or reducing...

Aggiornamenti ISSUP Libano - 2020

A settembre 2020, ISSUP Libano è stato lanciato con successo in un evento virtuale, con oltre 380 partecipanti locali e internazionali. Nell'ambito del lancio del capitolo nazionale libanese, ISSUP Libano ha ospitato la relatrice ospite Giovanna Campello, Capo della Sezione Prevenzione, Trattamento e Riabilitazione (PTRS) dell'UNODC. Campello ha presentato strategie di prevenzione basate sull'evidenza del consumo di droga secondo la seconda edizione aggiornata degli standard internazionali dell'UNODC-OMS. I partecipanti hanno appreso quali interventi sono...

This free webinar-based training course on Motivational Interviewing (MI) is presented by Igor Koutsenok, MD, MS, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry.

Motivational Interviewing is an essential, client-centered, counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. We are absolutely thrilled to bring you this skills-building opportunity presented by a recognized expert in the field of MI.

The course consists of four sessions (originally held during June 2020).

Course Description

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