All Resources for 'Education & Training'

The Biology of Addiction

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Video and audio recordings
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

Description: Drugs of abuse target discrete collections of nerve cells—called circuits—in the brain that normally regulate responses to natural rewards in the environment, like food, sex, and social interactions. The areas of brain involved...

Current Alcohol Labelling Practice in Europe

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Book
Themes
Policy
Prevention

ABSTRACT

The WHO European Region has the highest levels of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, yet alcohol labelling, a WHO-recommended practice that provides consumer information on the ingredients, nutritional values and harms...

The Life Skills Model

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News
Themes
Populations
Family

Life skills are capacities for positive adaptive behavior, which enable us to effectively negotiate the demands and challenges of everyday life. They involve personal skills that will enhance interpersonal relationships. The WHO suggests...

Life Skills as a Form of Prevention

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News
Themes
Populations
Family

Adolescence is one of the most important periods of people's lives. This phase of human development, in which the child becomes an adult, delimits the potential for psychological growth of the individual. Depending on how one structures...

Tobacco Control Research Agenda for Africa

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News
Themes
Populations
Women
Public Health

This call for proposals is based on the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa (CTCA) Research Agenda developed with collaborative support from several partners, to address gaps in tobacco control research.

CTCA supports innovative research...

Alcohol consumption in quarantine

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Populations
Family

When Argentine families closed to meet the quarantine imposed by the coronavirus, memes emerged as the possibility of spying on what is happening inside. Images such as a row of green beer bottles lining a house and field, and a caption in...

Mindfulness to Treat Addiction

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Website
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Mental Health

Mindfulness is a concept that has gained significant popularity over the past few years that involves the practice of being fully present.

Mindfulness involves the nonjudgmental awareness of thoughts, feelings, and surroundings.

Mindfulne...