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The Anatomy of a Successful Caribbean Substance Abuse Training Programme

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DOI: 
10.7727/wimjopen.2014.260
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41–5
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Authors deconstruct the core elements of the Caribbean Institute on Alcoholism and Other Drug Problems (CARIAD) training programme to demonstrate how it effectively meets the characteristics of a community of practice. The processes used to develop the learning community, and the pedagogic strategies and techniques that foster collaborative knowledge construction and sharing are described.

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Objectives: This paper describes the components of the Caribbean Institute on Alcoholism and Other Drug Problems (CARIAD), a long-standing substance abuse training programme. It seeks to explain how certain strategies and pedagogic techniques may be contributing to its success.

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October 27, 2014
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