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Team Awareness: Training for Workplace Substance Abuse Prevention (8-hour Edition)
Joel Bennett, Norma Bartholomew, Shawn Reynolds, and Wayne Lehman; 2002

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About this training package

Team Awareness is a workplace-training program that addresses behavioral risks associated with substance abuse among employees, their coworkers and, indirectly, their families. This program has been shown to increase employee help-seeking for and supervisor responsiveness to, troubled workers, enhance the work climate, and reduce problem drinking. These results are achieved by—

Promoting social health
Promoting increased communication between workers
Improving knowledge and attitudes toward alcohol- and drug-related protective factors in the workplace (such as company policy or Employee Assistance Programs)
Increasing peer referral behaviors

The training consists of six modules and is conducted across two 4-hour sessions with a company or business of any size. Larger companies generally require multiple training sessions. Team Awareness is highly interactive and uses group discussion, communication exercises, a board game, role play, and self-assessments. Modules cover policy ownership, enabling, stress management, listening skills, and peer referral.

Team Awareness is the first program to be recognized as a workplace-based Model Prevention program (PDF pamphlet) by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The logic and content of Team Awareness were based on the IBR Workplace Project's survey research of over 3,000 employees from three municipalities. Findings showed that employee tolerance for coworker substance use, attitudes toward discrete policy components, and work group drinking climates were each predictive of risk for substance use-related problems. Additional findings suggested that group cohesiveness and social integration at work might buffer against substance abuse risks. Team Awareness was developed in order to address both risk and protective factors identified in this survey research.

For more information about the Team Awareness training package, contact Norma Bartholomew, IBR Research Associate.

Recommended Citation: Bennett, J. B., Bartholomew, N. G., Reynolds, S., and Lehman, W. E. K. (2002). Team Awareness: Training for workplace substance abuse prevention. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, Institute of Behavioral Research. Available: IBR Web site: www.ibr.tcu.edu.

How to download the training package

The entire Team Awareness training is available to download as a Zip file, or sections of the modules are available to download in Adobe® Acrobat® Portable Document Format (PDF) -- all free of charge. Before starting the download process, we recommend you look over the following:

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ZIP; 19.5MB (Entire training package is included in teamawareness.zip, and the file will unzip to provide all the PDF files listed below.)

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The manual in separate files by section:
l Cover through Introduction and Facilitator Overview (PDF; 1075KB / 31 pages)
l Module 1 (Relevance): Relevance to you and your work group: Orientation and Risk Identification
Module 1 Relevance Manual
(PDF; 1316KB / 33 pages)
Module 1 Overheads/Handouts
(PDF; 1558KB / 36 pages)
Module 1 Speaker Notes
(PDF; 1571KB / 36 pages)
l Module 2 (Policy): Team Ownership of Policy: The Risks and Strengths Game
Module 2 Policy Manual
(PDF; 1936KB / 39 pages)
Module 2 Policy Part 1 Overheads/Handouts
(PDF; 1003KB / 19 pages)
Module 2 Policy Part 1 Speaker Notes
(PDF; 973KB / 19 pages)
Module 2 Policy Part 2 Overheads/Handouts
(PDF; 1087KB / 35 pages)
Module 2 Policy Part 2 Speaker Notes
(PDF; 965KB / 35 pages)
Module 2 Policy Gameboard
(PDF; 386KB / 1 large page)
l Module 3 (Tolerance): Reducing Stigma and Tolerance and Increasing Responiveness
Module 3 Tolerance Manual, Handouts, & Appendix
(PDF; 1435KB / 29 pages)
Module 3 Tolerance Overheads
(PDF; 732KB / 14 pages)
Module 3 Tolerance Speaker Notes
(PDF; 710KB / 14 pages)
l Module 4 (Stress): Work Stress, Problem Solving, and Substance Use
Module 4 Stress Manual with Handouts
(PDF; 837KB / 28 pages)
Module 4 Stress Overheads
(PDF; 488KB / 12 pages)
Module 4 Stress Speaker Notes
(PDF; 431KB / 12 pages)
l Module 5 (Communication): Workplace Communication Skills
Module 5 Communication Manual
(PDF; 759KB / 22 pages)
Module 5 Communication Overheads/Handouts
(PDF; 644KB / 16 pages)
Module 5 Communication Speaker Notes
(PDF; 569KB / 16 pages)
l Module 6 (Nudge): Encouragement: The NUDGE Model
Module 6 NUDGE Manual
(PDF; 1392KB / 25 pages)
Module 6 NUDGE Overheads/Handouts
(PDF; 673KB / 21 pages)
Module 6 NUDGE Speaker Notes
(PDF; 581KB / 21 pages)
Module 6 Case Studies Overheads/Handouts
(PDF; 392KB / 11 pages)
Module 6 Case Studies Speaker Notes
(PDF; 406KB / 11 pages)

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References

Bennett, J. B., Patterson, C. R., Reynolds, G. S., Wiitala, W. L., & Lehman, W. E. K. (2004). Team awareness, problems drinking, and drinking climate: Workplace social health promotion in a policy context. American Journal of Health Promotion, 19(2), 103-113.

Bennett, J. B., & Lehman, W. E. K. (Eds.). (2003). Workplace substance abuse prevention: Beyond drug testing to wellness. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [Summary]

Chapters:

Bennett, J. B. (2003). Introduction.
Bennett, J. B., Reynolds, G. S., & Lehman, W. E. K. (2003). Understanding employee alcohol and other drug use: Toward a multilevel approach (pp. 29-56).
Lehman, W. E. K., Reynolds, G. S., & Bennett J. B. (2003). Team and informational trainings for workplace substance abuse prevention (pp. 165-201).
Bennett, J. B., Reynolds, G. S., & Lehman, W. E. K. (2003). Cautious optimism and recommendations: A call for more research from applied psychology (pp. 239-258).

Reynolds, G. S., & Lehman, W. E. K. (2003). Levels of substance abuse and willingness to use the Employee Assistance Program. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 30(2), 238-248.

Bennett, J. B., & Lehman, W. E. K. (2002). Supervisor tolerance-responsiveness to substance abuse and workplace prevention training: Use of a cognitive mapping tool. Health Education Research, 17(1), 27-42.

Lehman, W. E. K., & Bennett, J. B. (2002). Job risk and employee substance use: The influence of personal background and work environment factors. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 28(2), 263-286.

Bennett, J. B., & Lehman, W. E. K. (2001). Workplace substance abuse prevention and help-seeking: Comparing a team-oriented and informational training. Journal of Occupational and Health Psychology, 6(3), 243-254.

Bennett, J. B., Lehman, W. E. K., & Reynolds, S. (2000). Team awareness for workplace substance abuse prevention: The empirical and conceptual development of a training program. Prevention Science, 1(3), 157-172.

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