Matua Raki - National Addiction Workforce Development

Tuesady 5th October Auckland, Thursday 7th October Christchurch

Contingency Management is a strategy and technique used in many fields to enhance the achievement of treatment goals. There is an extensive evidence base, mainly from the US, supporting the efficacy of these techniques in encouraging behaviour change in an addiction setting.

The principles of Contingency Management are based on Behavioural Psychology and Operant Conditioning techniques. In action Contingency Management is the use of incentives, or reinforcement, to encourage and reward behaviour change. Incentives can be vouchers, privileges, or anything that has value to the person.

30 July 2010 

New book aims to provide guidance to addiction practitioners working with sexual minority communities and clients

Successfully preventing and treating drug and alcohol addictions in gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual minority people is addressed in a new book aimed at the addiction prevention and treatment sector.

Making Visible: Improving services for sexual minority people in alcohol and other drug addiction prevention and treatment, by Frank Pega and Ian MacEwan, is published by Matua Raki, the National Addiction Workforce Centre, and is being distributed to all treatment services nationally.

It aims to be the main resource for addiction practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual minority clients, especially Māori or Pacific sexual minority people (such as takatāpui, fa’afafine, fa’afatama, akava’ine, fakaleiti, and fiafifine) and young sexual minority people.