Screening and Brief Intervention Curricula

Boston University. Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Curriculum
This web-based tool can be used to teach skills for addressing alcohol problems (e.g. screening, assessment, brief intervention, and referral) in primary care settings, with an emphasis on cross-cultural efficacy. It includes a power point slide presentation, trainer notes, and 3 case-based videos demonstrating skills for addressing alcohol problems in primary care settings.

Boston University. Emergency Department Alcohol Education Project: Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment
This web site has been funded in part by the NIH, National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and supported by ENA, ACEP and SAEM. The goal of this web site is to promote the adoption of screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) among emergency department (ED) providers.

Clinical Tools, Inc. Alcohol CME Curriculum
Includes courses on SBI for adolescents, and adults, motivational interviewing, case study. Some are from live presentations  Carolinas Conference on Addiction and Recovery in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Credits are offered for AACME, NBCC, NYS OASAS, CAADAC, and NASW.

NIAAA. The College Drinking Prevention Curriculum for Health Care Providers
This NIAAA web-based curriculum is aimed at campus based health clinics and other health care professionals. The curriculum covers screening, brief interventions, and motivational interviewing along with a workbook, role play scenarios and an attitude exercise. It can be downloaded as a PDF document.

NIAAA. Social Work Curriculum on Alcohol Use Disorders
This curriculum includes chapters on screening and motivational interviewing for social work professionals.

Pennsylvania Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) 
Pennsylvania’s Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) web site provides a variety of clinical tools, including some of the curricula noted on this page, for health care professionals doing SBI. 

Project Mainstream Syllabus 
Includes modules on Screening and Assessment, Brief Intervention, and Motivational Interviewing

Treatment Research Institute. Multimedia Workshop on Brief Intervention for Substance Abusing Adolescents
This program is a computer-delivered adaptation of the Brief Intervention (“BI”) workshop that TRI Senior Scientist Ken C. Winters, Ph.D., developed based on research with mild drug-abusing adolescents and their parents. (The entire CD, including the workshop, manual, suggested scripts, worksheets, and a brief summary of drugs commonly abused by teenagers, is available for $100 from TRI.)

Western CAPT. Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students: A Harm Reduction Approach (BASICS)
This preventive intervention for college students 18 to 24 years old aims at those who drink alcohol heavily and whose behaviors put them at risk for further problems. (A BASICS Therapist Manual can be ordered for $28 from Guilford Press. Other costs include training, therapist manual, and the staff time to identify and recruit appropriate students and to deliver the intervention.)

World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health & Substance Dependence. AUDIT – Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: Guidelines for Use in Primary Care  
This manual, written primarily for health care professionals, describes how to use the AUDIT to identify those with harmful alcohol consumption patterns.  Those in other professions who encounter alcohol-related problems may find this manual helpful as well.

World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health & Substance Dependence. Brief Intervention: For Hazardous and Harmful Drinking: A Manual for Use in Primary Care
This manual describes how to conduct brief interventions for those with alcohol use disorders and those at risk for developing them. While designed primarily for health care professionals, this manual can also be used by others working with people with alcohol related problems.