M.A., M.M. & S.P., Ph.D., Director, Centre for applied psychological studies, Baith Shalom, Thiruvanathapuram-695 1330.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1997 Jul;39(3):220-5.
A study was conducted on 19 community volunteers and the training module they underwent is presented. The subjects were given 7 days in-training with the objectives of imparting knowledge ana skill to identify and motivate alcohol and drug dependent person, to motivate them and their family to seek treatment to provide social support to them and to organise prevention programmes in the community. Their knowledge, skills and attitudes have shown significant improvement and change as a result to training. Extraversion was found to be significantly related to change in all the above variables, psychoticism was related to attitude and self-esteem was related to improvement in skills. Need for under taking further research in this area is also emphasized.
对 19 名社区志愿者进行了一项研究，并介绍了他们所接受的培训模块。这些志愿者接受了为期 7 天的培训，培训目的是传授知识和技能，以识别和激励酒精和药物依赖者，激励他们及其家人寻求治疗，为他们提供社会支持，并在社区组织预防计划。培训后，他们的知识、技能和态度都有了显著的提高和改变。外向性与所有上述变量的变化显著相关，精神质与态度相关，自尊与技能提高相关。还强调需要在这一领域进行进一步的研究。
