Vivir en Balance: Group Treatment Manual for Latinos

描述（由申请人提供）：拉丁美洲成年人的药物滥用往往被忽视，作为一个国家的公共卫生问题。为了回应这个问题和国家药物滥用研究所提出的“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”的要求，丹雅国际公司。建议开发和评估Vivir en Balance（VEB）。VEB是一个创新的，全面的心理教育计划，将开发用于辅导员与拉丁美洲成年人与酒精或其他物质有关的问题。拟议的产品将包括主持人指南和放松和引导图像光盘。主持人的指南将包括介绍该计划和技能培训，动机增强技术，以及辅导员和参与者的材料，为12个会议。VEB将专为辅导员和其他专业人员（治疗师，心理学家，个案经理）与拉丁美洲成年人在不同的治疗环境中提供药物滥用服务。拉丁美洲成年人在药物滥用治疗和治疗人员将参与制定和生产的拟议计划。VEB的目标如下：1）作为一个以研究为基础，经过经验检验的心理教育课程，有效且适合于有药物滥用问题的讲西班牙语的成年人使用，2）为专业人员和准专业人员提供治疗和培训材料（辅导员，社会工作者，治疗师，心理学家，个案管理员），易于使用，并融入现有的社区住宅和门诊药物滥用治疗设施VEB是唯一的西班牙语手册，全面，为拉丁美洲成年观众量身定制的心理教育课程。鉴于越来越多的美国居民只会说西班牙语，拟议的VEB课程将填补药物滥用顾问的需求，这些顾问专门或更经常地与讲西班牙语的成年人一起工作，最终将在缩小服务差距和调整英语和非英语客户之间的计划产品方面发挥重要作用。VEB将通过将基于研究的方法整合到一个可复制的，手动的，心理教育计划，可以很容易地集成到现有的治疗中心，并将专门满足拉丁美洲社区的需求，以帮助减少这一差距。

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.