Counselling heavy cannabis user via helpline

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Counselling heavy cannabis user via helpline

• Some social conditions and specific questions.
  
  
• The background of cannabis callers.
  
• The counselling methods and techniques.
• Two typical cases
• Our results ...

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German society conditions and particular
terms.Between medial hype and matter of facts

• Clarification of facts ...
• for example ... Legend of non-con-trollable stuff
  ....
• Either pro-cannabis or ...
• Playing down the risk ...

• The medial hype...
• A roll back of opinions ...
• Consumers as mental cases..
• Endangerment from Netherlands cannabis ...
• Consumers as psychiatric cases ...

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The background of cannabis callers

• The biggest group of callers are parents and
  relatives
• In second place are callers with drivers license
  problems
• Third group are the heavy cannabis users ...
• Fourth are administrativ people asking for
  information
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Our consulting techniques and methods

• Human therapy / Carl Rogers
  
• Cognitive behaviouristic - Counselling
  
• Motivational Interviewing / Miller Rollnick
  
• Coaching

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Two typical cases...

• 28 y. old male driver origin of the Makreb
• 14 years of consumation
• 5 years married ...
• The last four years he tryed to stop his
  con-sumption
• Cannabis helped him to control his aggressive
  parts

• 35 y. old, male social worker German....
• 18 years of consu-mation ...
• He smoked two or three time per day ...
• His girlfriend called us he was ambivalent...
• Doesnt know how to stop ...

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Basic results ...

• We give a solution-oriented-consulting...
  ...attend in the crisis ...
  ...disclose the problem behind
  the addiction .. ...open scopes of actions
  ...and we could connect
  to therapy.
• So the hotlines and the other drug help
  institutions could help!
• ... but we have to do even more.