The user of the program clicks through and picks what steps of the b and i to do with this patient. And, depending on the level of correctness of their choices, the patient responds in various ways. Sbirt gives the practitioner a needed skill in order to screen and intervene. Its a skill like any other skill that they learn in medical school, and it has the potential to improve the health of the public. I wouldnt even be here, or it would take me a longer time. The earlier, the better. You know, i was able to catch it in a stage thatyou know, im not a long time user, but i am a user, so it was able to help me balance myself out and get myself into the help that i needed. I see many patients at the end stage of their disease, not only from their alcohol and Substance Use longstanding, but also from the cooccurring illnesses, which can result as, from, Substance Use. And so its become vital to me, not only as a clinician but also as an educator, to really promote prevention, to allow us
The common ways that they interact in a negative way, well say, that everyone kind of knows about, are things like facebook and twitter and texting and things like that. But there are a variety of other platforms online where youth are interacting that adults are only just becoming really aware of. Such as . Even things like instagram. You know, they can even have negative interactions with instagram. So, the key thing for parents to know with all of that, well really, there are two main things i would tell parents. One is to document things. The thing that teens dont often realize with digital harassment or bullying is that a lot of it can be documented. You can screen capture a mean text, or a harassing text. You can screen capture things that happen on facebook. The other thing that i would advise parents to work with their teens on is to limit how theyre interacting on social media. Use their privacy settings on facebook. Make sure that only the people that should see something are
Peertopeer interventions. Can you talk to us a little bit, and how does that work . There are a variety of ways that we can utilize the information, the expertise of peers to help each other. Theres peer mentoring, theres peer mediation, therere a variety of Different Things that we can do. With peer mediation, we work with youth to help each other resolve conflict, which is a tremendously useful thing in this day and age because there are so many opportunities for youth to be in conflict, not just in person now, but digitally. We want to give them as many ways to resolve those conflicts as possible. What kind of things go on digitally today . Oh, my gosh. Intimidate each other . We are only just beginning to even get a handle on everything, its exploding so quickly. The common ways that they interact in a negative way, well say, that everyone kind of knows about, are things like facebook and twitter and texting and things like that. But there are a variety of other platforms online wh
Oh, my gosh. Intimidate each other . We are only just beginning to even get a handle on everything, its exploding so quickly. The common ways that they interact in a negative way, well say, that everyone kind of knows about, are things like facebook and twitter and texting and things like that. But there are a variety of other platforms online where youth are interacting that adults are only just becoming really aware of. Such as . Even things like instagram. You know, they can even have negative interactions with instagram. So, the key thing for parents to know with all of that, well really, there are two main things i would tell parents. One is to document things. The thing that teens dont often realize with digital harassment or bullying is that a lot of it can be documented. You can screen capture a mean text, or a harassing text. You can screen capture things that happen on facebook. The other thing that i would advise parents to work with their teens on is to limit how theyre int
Peertopeer interventions. Can you talk to us a little bit, and how does that work . There are a variety of ways that we can utilize the information, the expertise of peers to help each other. Theres peer mentoring, theres peer mediation, therere a variety of Different Things that we can do. With peer mediation, we work with youth to help each other resolve conflict, which is a tremendously useful thing in this day and age because there are so many opportunities for youth to be in conflict, not just in person now, but digitally. We want to give them as many ways to resolve those conflicts as possible. What kind of things go on digitally today . Oh, my gosh. Intimidate each other . We are only just beginning to even get a handle on everything, its exploding so quickly. The common ways that they interact in a negative way, well say, that everyone kind of knows about, are things like facebook and twitter and texting and things like that. But there are a variety of other platforms online wh