Therapeutic Models

About Therapeutic Models

About Therapeutic Models

To access Therapeutic Models please use the Youth AOD Toolbox

The Youth AOD Toolbox takes the vast range of evidence and literature that supports youth alcohol and other drugs (AOD) work, and presents it in an easily navigated and practical way.

The skills, resources and information in this Toolbox are for the use of youth-workers and supervisors providing AOD services to young people. 

The Toolbox can be used by newer workers who want to enrich or reinforce their knowledge, and by established workers who would like to add new skills or modalities. 

The Toolbox is a continuing project and is in constant development. More modules and content continue to be developed and existing content is added, edited and kept up to date.  

The definitive resource for evidence-based youth AOD practice. In the toolbox you will have access to Therapeutic Models that cover

  • Therapeutic Models
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • solution focused therapy
  • Cogitative Behaviour therapy (CBT)
  • Adolescent Community Reinforcement approach
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Family Focused Interventions
  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
  • References for Elements

What is this toolbox?

This toolbox provides practitioners in the youth alcohol + other drugs field with reliable and current information to help to increase their knowledge and enrich their practice.

Therapeutic Models | YouthAOD Toolbox

The Toolbox uses the term ‘therapeutic models’ to describe established groups of theory and intervention from psychology, counselling and social work.

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