Developing Evidence-Based Practices: Lessons Learned from Implementing a Collaborative, Cross-Agency Substance Use Family Intervention.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to report experiences gained while conducting the research project, in which social workers' active participation was a core feature.

Materials And Method: Guided by the implementation framework AIF (Active Implementation Framework) data were collected from multiple sources, such as minutes from guidance sessions, meetings with managers, booster days, and transcriptions of focus group interviews with social workers.

Results: Findings indicate that social workers need to receive training in research activities before program start and to have time for pre- and post-therapeutic session reflections To deliver and maintain an intervention like Me & my Family require cross-sectional cooperation and staff having academic degrees to develop reflections on program delivery.

Barns upplevelser av en intervention i familjer där vuxna har ett problematiskt bruk av alkohol och droger.

To investigate children's experiences of the intervention Me and my Family. Me and my Family is an intervention, for families with parental substance use problems (SUP) provided by Swedish social services outpatient care, includes eight weekly sessions where family members communicate how the SUP affects the family. Data consists of 17 qualitative interviews with children, 7 to 19 years old.

How do users with comorbidity perceive participation in social services? A qualitative interview study.

: This study aims to construct a theoretical framework that explains how users with comorbidity of substance use and mental illness/neuropsychiatric disorders portray user participation in social work encounters.: To construct this framework a constructivist grounded theory approach was used with semi-structured qualitative interviews with 12 users.: The main concern of the participants was the low trust in the social services and perceiving that this lack of trust is mutual.

Alcohol Habits and Health Care Use in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders.

Objective: It is common for persons with psychiatric disorders to also have alcohol problems. Studies in the general population as well as in clinical samples have found hazardous or harmful alcohol habits to be particularly prevalent in the presence of psychiatric disorders. This study sought to explore the relationships between drinking habits and health care utilization (psychiatric as well as general medical) in persons seeking psychiatric treatment and to investigate the associations among age, sex, and type or number of diagnoses and health care use and costs.

Brief Intervention Within Primary Care for At-Risk Gambling: A Pilot Study.

Studies on interventions for at-risk gambling are scarce. This pilot study is the first step in a larger project aimed to develop methods to prevent more serious gambling problems. Drawing on experiences from the alcohol field, the brief intervention (BI) model was tested in a primary care setting.