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Butler, Shane – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2011
This article reviews the emergence and expansion of addiction counselling as a specialist form of professional practice with problem drinkers and drug users in Ireland, over the past 30 years. It sees addiction counselling as having its roots in a widely shared disenchantment with the "medical model" of addiction treatment, and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Substance Abuse, Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior
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McCabe, Thomas Joseph; Garavan, Thomas N. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: The aim of this study is to highlight factors influencing the commitment of nurses, and particularly focuses on the role of training, development and career issues. It provides the basis for a HRD framework, outlining policy choices in developing high commitment amongst nursing staff. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative research…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Hospitals, Nurses, Job Satisfaction
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Kirwan, Cyril; Birchall, David – International Journal of Training and Development, 2006
Transfer of learning from management development programmes has been described as the effective and continuing application back at work of the knowledge and skills gained on those programmes. It is a very important issue for organizations today, given the large amounts of investment in these programmes and the small amounts of that investment that…
Descriptors: Health Services, Transfer of Training, Correlation, Work Environment