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According to the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Service delivery framework, endorsed psychotherapeutic interventions for alcohol:
1) CBT
2) Acceptance & commitment therapy
3) Motivational enhancement/ interviewing
Providing incentives to make behavioural changes and teaching people they are able to change when sufficiently motivated is the basis of which of the following Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) psychotherapeutic intervention?
Contingency management. Contingency management (CM) is a behaviour modification intervention which reinforces desired behaviours through incentives
According to the National Drug Strategy policy, increasing the excise tax (i.e. increasing the cost) for people to purchase tobacco is primarily an example of:
Demand reduction
The Return on Investment Study (2000-09) on needle and syringe programs in Australia found:
Drug use brings a particular balance of benefits and harms to the community
Alcohol contributes to a greater proportion of health problems in Indigenous Australians mostly because:
Indigenous people who drink alcohol do so at more hazardous levels
Until the 1890’s, in Australia, dangerous substances were covered under the Poisons Acts of each colony. Australia’s first laws prohibiting certain drug use came in 1905 and were primarily targeted towards:
The smoking of opium by Chinese people
Competency Enhancement through life skills training can be an effective intervention.
True, but only if it is delivered by peers
Which of the following is defined as: “sights, smells and sounds consistently associated with drug use elicit physiological and psychological responses that lead to drug seeking behaviour”?
Classical conditioning
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) Code of Ethics is built on which three (3) general ethical principles?
Respect, propriety and integrity
