Healthcare professionals and partners

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:

• executive summary
• part 1 - ITEP: an introduction
• part 2 - the ITEP manual
• part 3 - BTEI: a fresh perspective on delivering 'talking therapies'
• part 4 - BTEI: care planning manual
• part 5 - BTEI: exiting treatment manual
• part 6 - BTEI: building motivation manual
• Part 7 - BTEI: getting motivated to change
• Case study - Birmingham Treatment Effectiveness Initiative (BTEI)

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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 (PIRL)
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.

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Staff development toolkits for drug and alcohol services
As part of its workforce development strategy, the NTA commissioned two staff development toolkits for managers of drug and alcohol services – one for all services excluding registered care homes and one for residential services (registered care homes only).

• Staff development toolkit for drug and alcohol services - for all services excluding registered care homes and annexes 
• Staff development toolkit for drug and alcohol residential services - registered care homes only

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