Collaborative Leadership in Substance Misuse Prevention: A Facilitative Approach
Overall, "Collaborative Leadership in Substance Misuse Prevention: A Facilitative Approach" is a comprehensive and practical guide for substance misuse prevention professionals who want to enhance their leadership skills and adopt a facilitative approach in their work. The book offers a wealth of knowledge, strategies, and real-world examples that can help leaders create effective partnerships and alliances, build trust, promote inclusivity, and foster open communication. It is an invaluable resource for anyone working in the field of substance misuse prevention, whether they are new to the field or a seasoned professional.
Motivational Interviewing for Campus Police
In Motivational Interviewing for Campus Police, decorated US Army Veteran and former University Police Officer David Closson takes us into the world of evidence-based motivational interviewing. Closson presents a whole new understanding of campus policing and addressing students' substance misuse. At its core, Motivational Interviewing for Campus Police shows how to use motivational interviewing in day-to-day interactions with students to create lasting change in drinking and drug use.
Leading Campus Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention: Grounded Approaches for Student Impact
by David S. Anderson (Author), Thomas Hall (Author), Dave Closson (Contributing Author)
Leading Campus Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention provides higher education leaders with the tools to develop, revamp, revitalize, and review campus drug and alcohol prevention strategies. The book is an essential resource for campus personnel at all levels, and offers a practical approach for guiding drug and alcohol abuse prevention initiatives. Featuring insights from numerous practitioners, researchers, and national professionals who have worked on or with college and university campuses, the book provides processes and strategies that will help prevention specialists and leaders organize and implement their campus efforts.
Leadership in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention: Insights from Long-Term Advocates
by David S. Anderson (Author), Dave Closson (Contributing Author)
Leadership in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention blends the wisdom of numerous long-term professionals addressing drug and alcohol issues with helpful strategies and current science.
Organized around the Pyramid of Success that emphasizes Competence, Confidence, and Commitment, this book offers practical and grounded approaches for better addressing substance abuse issues. Included are insights from 50 contributors, featuring professional perspectives from practitioners with decades of experience. While issues of substance abuse are not readily solved or cured, they can be better addressed – more effectively, more efficiently, and more appropriately. This timely resource offers a unique blend of science-based strategies and resourceful foundations for implementation.
Designed for those working either directly or indirectly with problems associated with substance use disorders, this book will aid those in a wide variety of settings, whether in schools, communities, business, or government.
Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward
by David S. Anderson (Author), Richard E. Miller (Author), Dave Closson (Contributing Author)
Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and implement communications efforts on a wide range of health and safety topics and issues. Whether you're a student grappling with a health communications course or a professional wishing to learn how to communicate health and safety messages effectively to a range of audiences using a variety of communications media, Health and Safety Communication is all you'll need.
This book incorporates two broad sections: the grounding and the applications. The model articulates a planning approach for designing, implementing and reviewing a range of communications approaches. The applications segment specifies numerous approaches, including workshops, print materials, campaigns, the media, public speaking and social media that can be used to convey what the health and safety specialist wants the audience to "know, feel and do" as a result of engagement with the communications approach. Health and Safety Communication blends sound foundations with practical strategies for health and safety communication so that messages can be communicated more effectively; after all, for changes to occur, the message must be received and respected.