APSACS Webinar # 3: Impact of Drugs and OTCS: Socio-Emotional Consequences

foreign of mani rahim aslam alaikum everyone and a very warm welcome to our online audience for today's webinar on impact of drugs and otcs over the counter drugs social emotional consequences i am seerat patma in charge anti f6 anti drugs awareness program we would like to welcome all the guests the staff students and most importantly the parents from the army public school and college system and the partner organizations of the f6 for the audience who had not joined us on the previous two webinars i would like to explain that it is the third webinar of the f6 series of the emotional health webinar as the title indicates that it has to do with drugs and emotional health so two of the absence flagship programs are jointly presenting this webinar over the counters otc's uh during last two days lots of people have been asking so over the counters is a generic term used to cater over the counter drugs easily available in pharmacies all around the world without the doctors or the physician prescription for the kids of all ages including you and me as the name indicates that this webinar is an integrative initiative organized uh by its two programs of the abstract secretariat the anti-drugs anti-substance abuse program and the emotional health program in today's webinar we have with us our smiles team absence emotional health counselor miss nayab chaudhary and anti and ms zera kamal our emotional health expert ms elizabeth mattfield will join us uh live from a zoom session miss elizabeth mattfield is the project coordinator uh in and she works in the department of the prevention treatment and rehabilitation unit uh and then the drug prevention health branch unodc uh vienna austria uh as their headquarter is based in austria naya will share a brief introduction of the initiative being carried out uh by the smiles and emotional health program after some time but in meanwhile let me share the accomplishments of the absence anti-drug awareness program absence is aware of the growing threat of the drug abuse and is addressing it by establishing preventive meals according to its institutional capacity with our collaboration with the drug control authorities we have achieved so much in a very short span of time it was all possible because appsx has taken all the right steps in the right direction the system shares a very strong bond with anti-narcotics force and the unodc to these collaborations we are able to focus on the preventive layers to ensure drug-free army public schools and colleges and meanwhile our i.t team takes miss elizabeth matt field on the zoom session let me share some of the achievements of the anti-drugs awareness program we on and off we have been conducting sessions for our regional directors and we have been conducting our awareness sessions for appsx staff and students and we are thankful for the anti-narcotics force for conducting these sessions so far about 4600 students across pakistan have participated in these sessions and from all across pakistan and from the cities including ravel pindi koita zov laura lai karachi lahore and pishar and we are thankful for the anf regional offices for conducting these sessions and in on the mega training events uh wherever possible we also cater awareness sessions for our teachers as well at 16 and students regularly attend the drug burning ceremonies especially on the international day against drug abuse that is june 26th absence being mindful of this menace of the drugs has always an active participant of the narcotic control meetings the policy dialogues and the conferences for the educational institutions in this regard at this point i would like schools to please comment in the chat box about the mayas they have been taking so far and the activities if any activities conducting uh conducted in their schools over past year and a half for the drug awareness so if you like to share with the wider audience i would like schools to please share that with us in the chat box okay and the another thing i would like to share that absence has always been a strong advocate of the role of the parents in academics and the co-curricular activities and their life in school and beyond school so that is why parents are also a part of this webinar as well so i would like again to welcome all the parents who have joined us uh for this webinar now let me briefly share the layout of today's webinar after the program introduction uh miss uh we would take miss elizabeth mattfield from the live zoom session she is going to share some global facts of the drugs and the otcs and especially the international standards of the preventive majors across the world and then ms zara kamal and ms are going to discuss the impact on emotional health due to the irresponsible use of the drugs and otcs with respect to current social changes okay after the brief layout of the program uh let's ask our i.t team are we ready to take ms elizabeth from the zoom session can we take it okay so they have given me a green signal so i would uh like to do elizabeth can you hear us i can okay uh so it's good it's morning indiana so good morning and a very warm welcome thank you and good morning to you as well and thank you very much for the invitation to speak today okay so we are also thankful that you could take us time for us it's a morning in vienna but about to be afternoon in pakistan so again thankful for taking out time for this webinar so over to you elizabeth wonderful let me just share my screen all right i have a short presentation and if uh time becomes uh an issue please do stop me because this is a topic that i can talk about for quite a long time so my name is elizabeth matfield and i work with the united nations office on drugs and crime i actually started working here about 10 years ago specifically for a global program related to children and had the pleasure of actually being in pakistan a number of times working on different trainings and and for that project as well as for others so for a short time i'd like to talk about evidence-based substance use prevention and treatment and give uh some updates on that and touch on some of the issues that have already been been shared the framework for my presentation will be um and two sides one will be about health and one will be about science so as we go along you will hear me talk about health as a multi-factorial health condition and so it's really important that we think about substance use from the lens that this is not a moral problem this is not a criminal problem this is a person using substances that has a health condition and so most of the the interventions most of the work most of the understanding should come through a health perspective we need to think about providing care to people who are using substances and that standard of care should be the same as we would provide for any other person with a health condition so if a person is diagnosed with diabetes we certainly would give them the highest level of care that they would need for that particular health condition and i also will talk a little bit about prevention and treatment because many times people think that prevention is when a person has started using substances we do prevention when we uh when we say okay now stop using those substances and that's actually sliding into treatment so prevention is what we do long before a person is even thinking or exposed to substance use and so we'll talk a little bit about that uh the other piece that i want to be uh aware of or i want you to be aware of is that science is constantly changing science is constantly evolving and just in the in my during my career the information that we have about what's effective and what's based on science and can actually help people is has significantly changed so please do keep paying attention to what is the science and when i say what's the science i'm talking about brain research i'm talking about epigenetics i'm talking about things that go beyond googling you know substance use and causes because when you google you are not getting scientific information you need to be very careful and think critically about the information you get when you go on to with the internet and you just do a simple search one of the questions that i constantly get from people especially um young people is why do people use substances and it's an it's a question that i hate to answer because there is no answer there's no one cause there's no reason that stands alone and we just need to change that one reason it's a cluster of things that contribute to a person perhaps being more vulnerable to using substances and that cluster includes things that may not be in within the person's control so if a person has lived in poverty if a person does not have an education if a person has experienced trauma all of those pieces also combined with perhaps their genetics as well as some other social pieces could contribute to them being more vulnerable but please don't think of that as a cause many many people that i know in fact uh myself i grew up with not a lot of uh money i grew up in a very poor situation and that then i was successful and did not use substances so there are many people who might have some of these uh pieces and it does not mean that they will use substances that's why we call it a cluster okay let me go on to say that most of the people perhaps listening to this call are aware of the sustainable development goals the sustainable development goals were established by the united nations and all of the countries around the world are aiming for looking at how do they achieve these 17 things that are on the on the screen right now for sure substance use is clearly linked to number three sustainable development goal number three which has to do with good health but if you look at many of the other things if you believe what i just said that it's a cluster of situ of circumstances in which a person could be vulnerable now you start to see that substance use might also touch upon or be involved in almost all of these sustainable development goals poverty could be one of the one of the reasons one of the underlying reasons uh a person not having enough uh food and not having their brain develop in the way that it needs to develop could contribute to them making poor decisions if you're not enrolled in school that's also a risk factor we know that there are differences between boys and girls sdg number five in terms of prevention in fact our prevention curriculums or programs have a research behind that must do some programs work better for girls and others work better for boys sdg number six about clean water and sanitation might surprise people but we actually in our law enforcement programs they can test the water to see what substances are being used from by people because they can can perhaps be manufactured as well as the waste goes into the water and so we know where those substances are being used just by testing water uh and i will let you go through the rest the other piece for us at unodc that's very important is peace and justice sdg number 16. and you can imagine that as people are involved in using substances that link with the criminal justice field is also very heavy and so we want to really look at things such as substance use but more importantly things related to corruption organized crime all of those pieces as well so that's sounds like it's for a different webinar this one is absolutely focusing on social and emotional health of individuals so we i will let you schedule that for a different day okay so unodc has uh three important documents two which i want to cover significantly today one is the international standards on drug use prevention the other is the international standards for the treatment of drug use disorders and please do look for those documents on the unodc website they're easily found and the two international standards are exactly what they say they are they are sharing with you what is the science we've done the hard work we have compiled all of the science and when we say science we don't just mean the science that we like we have included all of the science that shows any evidence of changing drug use behavior if it does not change drug use behavior it is not in the document and so as we go around the world and we talk to people many times we listen and people say well we do this and and we check if it's not in the document then it's not based on science and then because specifically i was asked to speak to the issue of over-the-counter or prescription drug use we also in 2011 published a document called the non-medical use of prescription drugs this in 2011 was in response to the data that showed that more and more people were using around the world uh medications in a non-medical way so this idea of non-medical use of prescription drugs became uh came to the forefront in 2011 and in fact in 2013 pakistan did a survey on how medicines were used and in that survey the information that came from that was that prescription opioids prescription tranquilizers and prescription amphetamines were shown to be used in in pakistan itself in a non-medical way now all of that information is about prescriptions that's where a person has gone to a physician a prescription has been written that prescription then is is used legitimately but i wanted to address the fact that any substance any kind of thing that you can buy over the counter whether it be cough syrup whether it be an antihistamine for allergies whether it be uh anything that has a caffeine it can also be used in a non-medical way and all of those substances can do harm so please do not think that you can use any substance in a non-medical way without the risk of doing harm so we do not have i wish that i could tell you we did um but i did some research over the past couple of weeks for this webinar we do not have data about over-the-counter substance use in pakistan but i will tell you i'm sure that many people are experimenting with over-the-counter medicines and you know a friend said that a friend uses this and in that case you are still doing harm non-medical use of a substance that is not controlled and what i mean by that is it is not illegal it's not illicit is still going to be harmful drug use and so please do consider that any kind of substance and that means it can be over the counter it can be from a chemist it can be from a any kind of uh store where you do not have to have a prescription you still must use that substance by following the regulations or the the directions for how that should be used and if you go outside the directions of how that substance should be used you are now using it in a non-medical way and using that substance in a non-medical way can be a risk for you as any other substance so non-medical use is a very important and a concern that we have so i want to talk a little bit about the fact that there's a process that has three steps here so when we talk about substance use and in this case i will talk about all substances and i will talk about the non-medical use of substances we talk about that in a pers in a uh continuum so we start with prevention and we want to start prevention as early as possible and i will share a slide shortly which tells you that that prevention will start before a baby is even born and then when a person is using substances or perhaps exposed to substances and their body is already adjusted to that now we would be in the realm of treatment and of course once a person has gone through a treatment program we still need to provide recovery support services so it's not as simple as saying you go to a program and then you are you are fixed it's not a situation where a person will be fixed you will be in a situation where all throughout the rest of your life you will have this medical condition remember i indicated it would be a medical condition so let's start with prevention and i wanted to talk about things that are sometimes a little bit confusing about prevention let's start with the top of the screen where i talk about universal prevention universal prevention is prevention programs that are for everyone a hundred percent of your population should be exposed to these programs and on the left hand side of your screen you should be able to see two things one is some characters at the top of the screen um they are characters from our listen first you know dc has a listen first program and that listen first program is something that you can use in pakistan it is very easily set up as an awareness raising it's based on science it is not intended to be a program for specific individuals it is intended to be messaging that goes out universally everybody can see it everyone can understand it um it is on the unodc website it's www.u listen first and that is a universal intervention other universal interventions could be a family skills program so a family skills program means that every parent receives skills training to become better parents now i know because i've spent a lot of time in pakistan that you have a wonderful extended family system you have a strong family system but in this particular program what we what we teach and what is found to be effective is sometimes parents don't have the skills to be able to help and protect young people so when they continue to grow and mature perhaps they don't learn those skills and so now that puts them at greater risk for substance use so the family skills program does not talk about drugs the listen first program does not talk about drugs if we're talking about skills that people need all people need to live healthy and happy lives so then if you go down on my on my graphic there you get to selective programs selective programs are just what they indicate sorry i should have used a different word their selective programs are just what it sounds like selective programs are if you think that someone is at risk we would put programs in place that give them a little bit more of a boost they give them a little bit more assistance and those selective programs again are focused on skills building skills like communication building skills related to decision making so you see where i'm going with this is that if you have young people who maybe are acting out or maybe or don't have a lot of friends or maybe are feeling a little isolated and i think we'll talk about that on the social emotional side of this program then those are people who may be as good to be in a selective program because not everyone will be in that situation and then at the very bottom of the of the graphic you see the word indicated indicated prevention programs are very specific they are for people who we already know are at risk now i want to be clear when i say we already know they're at risk that does not mean they are using substances because once they are using substances remember now we're moving toward treatment so that indicated is if we know that a child is living in a in a family where one of the adults is using substances we automatically know that that child is at risk the science is very clear that if an adult is using substances that a child will be at greater risk and so we can put indicated programs in place to protect that child so those indicated programs are for situations where we are absolutely sure that that child is at greater risk okay so what puts someone at risk i don't want to talk a long time about it but i wanted to have this slide up so that i could say again most people come to me and say but why if we could just tell just tell me why people use substances because if we know why someone uses substances we can fix it so first of all remember it's a health condition and the why is not clear there's no why there's you know i i think there's hundreds of people that are listening to this webinar and in that hundreds of people everyone will have a different answer to that question if they were to use substances so please do know that there are macro and micro level elements that contribute to that and as i said they don't cause it there is not a cause but it's how all these pieces work together so the macro level things that we do not have control over as an individual could be things like poverty your social environment do you have friends do you have a family that cares your physical environment are you safe have you experienced any kind of trauma your micro level environments here you might have some control over you have family you have peers you have what's happening in your schools and you have your workplace here i want to say something that might be controversial but a lot of people you blame peers they blame the the peers as having uh peer pressure i personally do not look at peers as being able to uh have peer pressure if the the reality is is when you are a young person and you want to fit in there is no pressure from your peers you need to learn skills to make good decisions to to be able to communicate with your peers and say you know what i'm not interested in that behavior i'm not interested in taking that risk and once you learn those skills that idea of peer pressure suddenly goes away and then you can be actually the peer that is leading the decision making for others so that micro level piece is important who you are as a person your personal characteristics that could be genetics it could just be are you a person who rolls along and is calm or are you a person who's super excited all of those things can contribute as well as you see all the way on the right hand side the idea of beliefs attitudes and your behaviors so this is not something if someone asks you a question and says just tell me why all of these are very hard to explain and how they interact and come together for each individual person is different for those of you who live in a environment where you have snowflakes you'll know that snow no snowflake is the same as another one they're all completely different and the same thing is happening here there is no one way to describe why a person might be using substances all right i hope i've given a little bit of a something that makes sense there let me also talk a little bit about risk and protective factors uh uh researchers in the united states many years ago hawkins and catalano were identified things that put people at risk and then also things that are protective factors and they come in different areas so we have things that would maybe put children at risk we have things that put that family factors that put someone at risk we have school factors that and we have community factors now you can do your own looking into this but i wanted to put that this here because many times people look at the risk factors and say you know we need to fix this situation we need to make sure that there's no negative peer groups we need to make sure there's no bullying we need to make sure that there's no school failure but it's also equally important to please look at the protective factors side that we need to make sure that people have developed social skills we need to make sure that there's an attachment a healthy attachment to the family look at that school achievement as something that's very important having a positive school environment making sure that young people when you go to school you connect with what happens in school that people are are kind to each other that school is a positive place to go to that there are opportunities for success one of the other things that i see all the time in in the world of prevention and substance use is this idea of scaring people you know if we scare them and tell them how bad things will be if they use substances that does not work that scare tactic we are very clear the research shows it does not work and so on the other side building a positive environment where someone who's feeling a little bit unsure can come and find an adult and say you know my peers are going to do this this behavior and use this substance but it doesn't seem right to me i'm worried about it they're getting over the counter medicines and they're using them in a way that's not right and so in this case if you have a positive school environment you have places where you can go people you can speak with okay let's talk a little bit about prevention from the search from how what do we talk about prevention where does it happen how does it happen so if you look on this slide it looks very complicated it's not so complicated but this does come from the international standards on substance use prevention and here we're talking about on the uh i think it's on your left hand side of the screen you have family school community workplace and health sectors so you have we've divided the research by what is effective in families what's effective in schools what's effective in the community what's effective in the workplace and what's effective in the health sector and it's really important for me to say that it's not a different message for each of those places you should be thinking about in pakistan your the message should be the same and it should be consistent so if your parents are saying one thing you want school teachers to be saying the same and you want community leaders religious leaders people who have the who have your the ear in the community to also be the same and you want people in a workplace setting and people in a healthcare setting to also have that same message so having consistency is super important in those uh in those sectors now across the top you see developmental stages so each person all of us uh go through infancy early childhood middle childhood early adolescence adolescence and then everything after adolescence we have lumped together into adulthood so many times people will say to me what exactly are the ages of these categories and you can go to the international standards and you can find out exactly how we divided the ages and you can imagine it was difficult because different countries have different research around different ages and you can imagine that perhaps people develop slightly different in different uh cultures and different places around the world what we did was try to make it consistent and mostly just represent the research and anything you see on this graph graphic here is something that will prevent substance use it has been shown by science it's not just that i like saying it it has got science behind it so let's look at where do we see the most prevention uh efforts you see a lot of science between early adolescence through adolescence and then going into adulthood so most of the screen is between early adolescence adolescence and going into adulthood now that means that early adolescence early adolescence starts as early as eight years old eight to 12 is in that early adolescent space where are your prevention programs in pakistan when do you start thinking about putting prevention programs in place and what are those prevention programs when i talk to people in different parts of the world including in pakistan because i'm very privileged to be able to do a lot of training in this country we're taught you most of the time you're talking about 18 year olds once we're talking about 18 year olds we're not we're usually past prevention so please do be thinking about how do we do prevention programs early in school you see the school program start in early childhood education which would be you know your your six seven eight years old would qualify there for personal and social skills education classroom management policies that keep children safe policies that prevent bullying all of the pieces about social and emotional health addressing individual vulnerabilities and remember the universal selective and indicated so in these international standards you can actually look at and match what types of programs some of the programs are school-wide programs and those school-wide programs are about building a positive school environment making sure you have school policies on substance use and those school policies would be you don't use substances at school those same things can be looked at across the community now in your family you see parenting skills come in as well and any programs that you have so if you have prenatal programs or uh physicians that or nurses health care providers that visit families and provide that kind of services for women who are having children having babies that's also an evidence-based program for substance use prevention so you never have the conversation but that actually is one of the most important interventions and most effective now for people who are using substances you can see at the bottom of the screen in the health sector you have something called brief intervention brief intervention is actually a screening and assessment tool that moves you if you are are using substances and a health sector person someone that's a counselor a social worker someone working in a health setting uses that brief intervention tool they may refer you on for treatment so here we're looking at uh any kind of substance use let me go back and remind people because this is the part one of the things that we wanted to say in this webinar we're talking about non-medical use of any substance so if a physician has not given you this prescription and if you are not using the substance in the way it was meant to be used medically then you are in that uh non-medical use and you would be in that area of brief intervention made a referral would be made okay i think that makes sense let's work move now to the drug use disorder treatment again treatment needs to be based on science and we have the international standards for what are the interventions that we know work and the most important thing here is that we have a sense of human rights we would never in any way harm a person who had diabetes and we need to make sure that we never in any way harm a person who is diagnosed with substance use disorder so what do we do how do we make this happen first of all i want to say it should be in a system and you notice that in my previous slide here if you put all of that together you would have to have a system you would have to have families in schools and communities and workplace and the health sector all talking to each other that means it would have to be a system here we also want a system for treatment so the first thing that we need to do is we need to get have services that we call outreach services and we want to have we want to help people who have substance use disorders now let me ask most of you who are listening in are probably probably very well aware that people who use drugs do not voluntarily raise their hand and say oh wait wait i use substances every day i have a problem so in this case it's a very stigmatized issue it's a very silent or hidden issue and so people are not going to raise their hand and say hey come and help me or they may not even be comfortable seeking services so outreach services are things then people who go out into the community and create a safe environment where someone can say yeah i'm really struggling i'm not passing my classes i've lost my job i can't feed my family because i'm using substances and i'm spending all of my money to buy these substances or yes i've gotten involved with the criminal justice system because i've been using substances but remember it's stigmatized it's hidden and so people who are easy to identify are not likely the people who most need our help if they're easy to identify then we want to of course help them but we need to keep looking because there are plenty of people who need help that are still staying hidden in our cultures so once we find them we do a medical assessment we don't just say oh this person is a drug user and you notice that they use that term specifically the person is using substances they are not a drug user they are not labeled by their drug use they're still a person they're still a valuable person they are still a person who can contribute to your community but they happen to be using substances and remember in the beginning the first slide we said that's a health condition so once we assess them and we diagnose them now we need to get them some services now if you remember your risk and protective factors your risk factors are you you are important to know because if you do not have a support network remember one of the big risk factors was if you're not in school so if you're a young person using substances we don't want to take you out of school we want to keep you in school if we want to keep you with your family unless your family is what's keeping you is is not safe you so we need you to be safe what we want is to provide services that are outpatient services so you might come regularly for a class you might come regularly for some counseling you might come regularly for a group setting but you still remain in your support networks that are functioning and we notice they say functioning if they're not functioning if they're negatives then they are not support networks so that would be outpatient services they also happen if you're a policy maker and listening in they also happen to be less expensive um and the most effective services so the one that comes after outpatient services is if it doesn't work if it doesn't if we still have a person that is using substances then we make a referral to what we call a residential program and residential programs can be of all kinds we don't have time today to talk about all the different types of residential programs but the residential programs can certainly be for a certain amount of time they need to be voluntary they need to be the kind of programs where you volunteer to go and you can leave at any time because if they are not voluntary they will not work the person will relapse and the science is very clear on that so they need to be voluntary they need to be in a situation where a person can come and go um those residential programs again are not the most cost effective and so we we want to be able to reserve those for the people who need them the most and to be honest it's not a very high percentage of people that need residential treatment you want people to more likely land in outpatient treatment and then of course it's important to have that strong recovery and follow-up services if you can have the strong recovery and follow-up services then we know that we are preventing relapse but we also have that connection to the community and so linking the outreach and the recovery together makes for a healthy uh community interventions and remember community interventions also have to do with prevention so you have the full spectrum we're making now a circle a full circle um so i want to conclude because i know that i'm getting to the end of my time i would like to say that please do think about health and science so when you think about substance use of any kind link that to health and science prevention works we must follow the science in non-medical use of any drug that any substance that you can find in the world and believe me i've seen people use lots of different things that you would be shocked by any substance you can find in the world if it's being used in a non-medical way it will be harmful so i please urge you to be very careful in the decisions you make around that uh thank you very much for your attention and my email is available on the screen in case people uh would like to get in touch with me and i think that i've come to the end of my time and ladies i will stop sharing the screen and turn this back over to you again thank you very much for sharing the information about this important topic and the associated factors especially the preventive measures as per the international standards so for all the staff and the students who could not join us for this live session because of some technical issue or their commitments all this useful information will be available on the youtube as it is a recorded session so um once again i would like to thank you mr leather so you uh that you could take out time for us today uh before i would like to share the salient points of miscellaneous um presentation in urdu i would like to discuss a little bit about the over the counters the term and there's no doubt that the healing effects of the these capsules these pills these injections it is a great blessing that we are reaping the fruits of the hundreds of years of the scientific research in the form of these pills and injections and we are at the stage that they are the part of our daily lives commonly used otcs or over-the-counter drugs they are the cuff syrups vitamins laxatives diuretics sedatives uh relaxants we use orange colors steroids energy drinks and energy boosters and the most common is the painkillers they are very much the part and parcel of our daily life the participants they can raise hand in the chat box if they have some otc in their bag in their drawer or for the gentleman if they have any otc in their pocket now i would like to come back to the elizabeth presentation i would like to share the main points in urdu presentation or science um foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign um foreign overlap in the brain and for that we luckily have our emotional health experts with us today and they will highlight the emotional aspects of the drugs and the otcs and how the social fabric of the society is affected by the irresponsible use of these drugs and otc so over to miss nayak for the brief introduction of the emotional health program and about the topic thank you very informative everything that um shared and the resources that you shared as well um um i am i asked i am a clinical psychologist by profession and has been managing aspect emotional health program at the department for research and quality assurance at secretariat um i'm a public school uh colleges and schools and colleges system is a pioneer consistent to launch a basic native emotional height program uh in pakistan for the capacity building and enhancement of students emotional well-being uh personality traits sensitive team and skills to meet various day-to-day challenges the smiles program was launched in 2013 in all the regions in pakistan uh for teachers and parents to play that vital role uh in the emotional development of students for early detection and social difficulties that students might be facing uh till date access has reached out to more than forty one thousand four hundred and twenty one teachers students and parents uh while investigation was talking about uh prevention and how preventing from preventive programs or preventive interventions are very important uh when it comes to uh drugs and otc um it's encouraging that uh afflict secretariat has already been working on the prevention of uh concerns and associated uh problems like substance abuse uh assets have leading professionals of pakistan on this channel who provides consistency as well as training to support the implementation implementation of science program um this includes uh training of trainers and step down training um ethics also provided effective resources to support this school and there are there's online availability of videos well-being guidelines and one online availability of a psychologist all these resources are accessible on the website i would also like to introduce our family member or the clinical psychologist excuse me my profession and have been working in the field has been associated with psychology and practicing it for the past many years foreign um foreign um pakistani um is um foreign um uh from economy like foreign um activities okay will um um is so thank you so much um um um foreign foreign um is foreign um foreign um um is foreign um foreign thank you dana appreciating uh your insights regarding what you uh see and what you uh come across in your clinic in your physical practice um foreign foreign foreign for example um um um foreign healthy instead of finding answers online or finding answers to their friends uh that can contribute into or developing this kind of habit uh positive parenting is something that um foreign foreign uh uh be looking forward to your query and um uh at the end uh if you have any queries regarding the whole webinar you are more than welcome to uh write it uh show africa after exporting and all these queries will be responded by success at the end i would like to uh thank everyone who has joined us today all the parents all the teachers and students and uh for mostly i would like to thank director at that president who has given us this opportunity on an initiate hearing a program uh she has been encouraging us to work on these programs specifically after that i would like to uh thank miss uh satyabhashi who is the head of department at um the department of uh research and quality assurance abstract secretariat um of course who is a clinical psychologist and has been on that tech panel for a very long time has been the founder one of the founding members of the smiles program uh i would like to thank miss elizabeth matfield was the project coordinator uh at muno dc headquarters vienna who joined us today and shared uh insightful aspects of uh substance abuse at otps uh i would also like to thank mr jelem who is the country director of unity pakistan uh mr mohammad ameen a program officer pakistan uh i would also like to thank the experience who is the in charge of absent anti-drug awareness program at epic secretariat uh foreign uh contributing into us bringing you these webinars very efficiently and uh generally department of access the department of research and quality assurance for their coordination collaboration and uh i would like to thank you as well for yet another informative the webinar for the appsx staff and students and the partner organizations uh thank you thank you so much for joining in and we'll be coming back with uh yet another webinar on emotional health series very soon thank you for that you

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Published: Tue Sep 21 2021