1. Identify the key elements of assessment including co morbidity 2. Develop capacity to use a range of assessment screening tools and critically evaluate these models and their implications for...

 1. Identify the key elements of assessment including co morbidity

 2. Develop capacity to use a range of assessment screening tools and critically evaluate these models and their implications for practice.

 3. Develop the capacity to assess readiness to change and identify motivational strategies to promote behaviour change

 4. Develop the capacity to demonstrate respectful, inclusive and culturally safe communication and practice with client groups

 5. Critically compare and contrast   brief and comprehensive intervention

 6. Develop the capacity to undertake treatment planning and intervention  utilising  harm reduction perspectives

 7. Describe strategies for maintaining change based on the principles of relapse prevention and critically consider implications for practice.

 8. Demonstrate the ability to value diverse perspectives, including cultural practices, in a variety of situations while interacting in partnership with colleagues and clients

 9. Demonstrate a commitment to honest, integrity, collegiality and safe, ethical and legally appropriate practice.

 10. Present work to the appropriate academic standard