Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders

In this activity, you will select a risk or protective factor from the readings and identify a prevention strategy that matches the factor you have selected.

Step 1: Select a risk or protective factor from the readings.

Step 2: Identify a prevention strategy for the risk factor or promoting strategy for the protective factor that matches your selected factor.

Step 3: Write a 200-450 word discussion post that:

1. Introduces the risk or protective factor of your choice.
2. Explains why the prevention or promoting strategy relates to the selected factor.
3. Explains how you would apply this in your workplace.

Step 4: To share your work, click on the “Reply” button under this post and paste your work in the “message” box. Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

Step 5: Evaluate the work from one of your peers. Provide comments or suggestions for improvement and your thoughts about the points that your peer has written. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “post to forum.” You can use the list below as an example:

In this activity, you will analyze techniques to confront, and intervene with patients with alcohol use disorder, and select suitable types of treatment based on your country/city’s provisions and programs.

Step 1: Review and analyze which techniques, interventions and types of treatment that can be used for alcohol abuse disorder patients.

Step 2: Write a 150-450 word discussion post that answers the following questions:

1. What are the treatment guidelines employed in your city or workplace? 
2. How would you improve them based on the readings of this module?

Step 3: To share your work, click on the “Reply” button under this post and paste your work in the “message” box. Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

Step 4: To complete the activity, you will need to reply to at least one post made by your peers in a respectful and professional manner. Be sure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential improvements for their guidelines or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “post to forum.”

In this activity you will recognize the importance of the alcohol use intervention and care in special populations 

Step 1: Identify a professional experience with alcohol use disorders in children, adolescents, pregnant women, or seniors. If you don't have one, look for a case online and share. 

Step 2: Write 150-450 words on sharing the main considerations and recommendations you can provide for this target population with success or failure outcomes. Based on this module's readings, what would you do in the future if you face a similar situation?

Step 3: To share your work, click on the “Reply” button under this post and paste your work in the “message” box. Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

Step 4: Evaluate the work from one of your peers. Provide comments or suggestions for improvement and your thoughts about the points that your peer wrote. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “post to forum.”