A series of initiatives being developed by the National Treatment Agency (NTA) and partners to improve the quality of drug treatment in England by ensuring that clinicians have access to a range of tools to tackle drug misuse.
Mapping tool
A pioneering new tool for clinicians to promote behaviour change in drug-dependent clients. Extensive research has shown that this easy-to-use and innovative technique – which enables drug workers to visually represent their clients’ thinking in a series of personal maps – improves the engagement and motivation of drug misusers.
Routes to Recovery:
Case study -
Birmingham Treatment Effectiveness Initiative (BTEI).
Framework and toolkit
Psychosocial interventions in drug misuse: a framework and toolkit for implementing NICE-recommended treatment interventions aims to help drugs workers make better use of ‘talking therapies’ to support drug misusers overcoming dependency.
The guide has been developed in conjunction with the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Psychosocial interventions resource library
The NTA’s Psychosocial Interventions Resource Library (PIRL) is made up of therapy protocols and implementation tools additional to those in the framework and toolkit above.
Supporting materials
Towards successful treatment completion
A good practice guide, NTA, 2009
Mapping the routes to recovery
A presentation by Dr Luke Mitcheson, Clinical Team NTA. Presented at 'Drugs and Alcohol Today' conference (April 2009)
Psychological interventions and drug treatment provision
A presentation by Dr Luke Mitcheson, Clinical Team NTA. Presented at the 'Its time to talk' conference (March 2009)
A picture is worth a thousand words: the case for graphic representations
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
Relating counselor attributes to client engagement in England
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
