The Alcohol and Other Drugs Education Program for Social Work Faculty: A Model for Immersion Training

Abstract

This article presents the Alcohol and Other Drugs Education Program (ADEP) as a model for faculty training in evidence-based alcohol and other drug (AOD) identification and treatment. We make the case that AOD use is a serious social and public health issue and highlight faculty training as a strategic approach for addressing the pressing demand for clinical professionals who can provide AOD-related services. In turn, we describe the core elements of ADEP, including the program’s foundational assumptions and logic, guiding principles and design, situating ADEP within the context of other efforts to improve the quality of AOD-related clinical care.

KEYWORDS:

• addiction
• alcohol and other drugs
• curriculum
• pedagogy
• social work
• substance use disorders education

Notes

¹ As detailed earlier, we trained 50 full-time faculty in 2017 and are in the process of recruiting the same number of faculty for participation in 2018. Our hope is to increase the number of social work faculty trained annually in the near future to make this program available to a greater number of faculty in the United States.

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Funding

This research was supported in part by Grant Number R25 AA021714 from the NIAAA. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIAAA or the National Institutes of Health.