Vivir en Balance: Group Treatment Manual for Latinos

Vivir en Balance：拉丁裔团体治疗手册

• 批准号: 6991007
• 负责人: SUSANNA NEMES
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: SOCIAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-19 至 2007-03-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6991007
• 关键词: Hispanic Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; counseling; culture; educational resource design /development; focus groups; handbook; health education; human subject; motivation; nonEnglish language; relaxation; substance abuse related disorder

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Substance abuse among Latino adults is often overlooked as a national public health concern. In response to this issue and a request from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to "develop, modify, and test new or existing group therapy approaches, particularly for racial or ethnic minority populations," Danya International, Inc. proposes to develop and evaluate Vivir en Balance (VEB). VEB is an innovative, comprehensive psychoeducational program to be developed for counselors to use with Latino adults with problems related to alcohol or other substances. The proposed product will consist of a facilitator's guide and a relaxation and guided imagery CD. The facilitator's guide will include an introduction to the program and skills training, motivational enhancement techniques, and counselor and participant materials for 12 sessions. VEB will be designed for counselors and other professionals (therapists, psychologists, case managers) to use with Latino adults presenting for substance abuse services in diverse treatment settings. Latino adults in substance abuse treatment and treatment staff will be involved in the development and production of the proposed program. VEB has the following objectives: 1) To serve as a research-based, empirically tested psychoeducational curriculum that is effective and appropriate for use with Spanish-speaking adults with problems related to substance abuse, 2)To provide treatment and training materials for professionals and paraprofessionals (counselors, social workers, therapists, psychologists, case managers) that are easy to use and integrate into existing community residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment facilities VEB is the only Spanish-language manualized, comprehensive, psychoeducational curriculum tailored to Latino adult audiences. Given the growing proportion of U.S. residents who speak only Spanish, the proposed VEB curriculum will fill an expanding need among substance abuse counselors who work exclusively or more routinely with Spanish-speaking adults and will ultimately serve an important role in the efforts to close the service gap and align program offerings between English- and non-English-speaking clientele. VEB will help reduce this gap by integrating research-based approaches into a replicable, manualized, psychoeducational program that can be easily integrated into existing treatment centers and will specifically meet the needs of the Latino community.

描述（由申请人提供）：拉丁裔成年人的药物滥用往往被忽视为国家公共卫生问题。针对这一问题，以及国家药物滥用研究所（National Institute on Drug Abuse）要求“开发、修改和测试新的或现有的团体治疗方法，特别是针对种族或少数民族人群”，Danya International, Inc.提议开发和评估Vivir en Balance （VEB）。VEB是一项创新的、全面的心理教育计划，将为咨询师开发，用于治疗与酒精或其他物质有关的拉美裔成年人。提议的产品将包括一个引导者指南和一个放松和引导图像CD。引导者指南将包括对计划和技能培训的介绍，动机增强技术，以及12次会议的咨询师和参与者材料。VEB将为咨询师和其他专业人员（治疗师、心理学家、病例管理人员）设计，用于在不同的治疗环境中为药物滥用服务提供拉丁裔成年人。药物滥用治疗的拉丁裔成年人和治疗人员将参与拟议计划的制定和制作。VEB的目标如下：1)作为一个以研究为基础，经过实证检验的心理教育课程，有效并适合于有药物滥用问题的讲西班牙语的成年人使用；2)为专业人士和辅助专业人士(咨询师、社会工作者、治疗师、心理学家、VEB是唯一一个针对拉丁裔成人受众量身定制的西班牙语手册、全面的心理教育课程。鉴于美国居民中只会说西班牙语的比例越来越高，拟议的VEB课程将满足对药物滥用咨询师不断扩大的需求，这些咨询师专门或更经常地与讲西班牙语的成年人打交道，最终将在缩小服务差距和调整英语和非英语客户之间的项目提供方面发挥重要作用。VEB将通过将基于研究的方法整合到一个可复制的、手动的、心理教育项目中来帮助缩小这一差距，该项目可以很容易地整合到现有的治疗中心，并将特别满足拉丁裔社区的需求。