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Professional Training
Author(s) -
Hawks David V.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0819-5331
DOI - 10.1080/09595238780000341
Subject(s) - discernment , variety (cybernetics) , competence (human resources) , vocational education , training (meteorology) , continuing education , medical education , psychology , institutionalisation , addiction , professional development , pedagogy , medicine , social psychology , psychiatry , computer science , geography , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , meteorology
The discernment and treatment of alcohol and other drug related problems, while continuing to involve those working in specialised agencies, will, if only because of the prevalence of such problems, need to engage the attention of professionals working in a variety of settings. For such professions to respond with competence and confidence to these problems will require that their training accord much more attention to these matters. Examples are given of initiatives being taken in Western Australia to ensure the “institutionalisation” of training in the addictions in a variety of professional and vocational groupings.