technology

Technology-Delivered CBT to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder

Scientific article

30 September 2019

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is one of the most researched treatment options for Alcohol Use Disorder. In order to make CBT as accessible and effective as possibles, researchers have been investigating different versions and ways to...

SPR 2020 Call for Papers Now Open!

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This year's conference theme, Why Context Matters: Towards a Place-Based Prevention Science, challenges prevention scientists to explicitly recognize the central role that geographical concepts such as location, distance, distribution...

Not without my Mobile Phone: Alcohol Binge Drinking, Gender Violence and Technology in the Spanish Culture of Intoxication

Scientific article

22 March 2019

Abstract The practice of binge drinking has in recent decades consolidated what is known as the ‘culture of intoxication’ among young people of Spain. This has coincided with the increase in the use of mobile-phone technology and of social...

CORE - Clinical Overview of the Recovery Experience

14 July 2019

Amelia Island

United States

Join us for the 7th Annual Clinical Overview of the

Webinar: Technology-based Contingency Management to Promote Smoking Cessation

13 March 2019

Webinar

Contingency management (CM) is one of the most efficacious interventions to promote drug

5th Annual CBC Conference, Behaviour Change for Health: Digital and Other Innovative Methods

8 April 2019

London

United Kingdom

The UCL Centre for Behaviour Change (CBC), in collaboration with the UCL Institute for Digital Health, is delighted to confirm its fifth behaviour change conference.

The 5th annual CBC conference will invite academia and industry to present on health-related behaviour using digital/not digital and hybrid technologies.

Addressing the Opioid Crisis via Community-Based Technical Assistance

27 February 2019

Webinar

This webinar will provide an overview of the U.S. opioid crisis and technical assistance models. Participants will gain a complete understanding of technical assistance and how it can assist providers in addressing

m-Health Applications for Responding to Drug Use and Associated Harms

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Digital healthcare, also known as e-health, refers to tools and services that use information and communication technology to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and management of health. Mobile health, or m-health, is...

Keynote Presentations: 9th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting

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26 November 2018

The Ninth EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting took place October 24th – 26th 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. The focus of the event was Prevention Technologies – Improving the Use of Evidence in Prevention Practice. Academics, researchers, policy...

Society for Prevention Research - 27th Annual Meeting

28 May 2019

San Francisco

The Society for Prevention Research’s 27th annual meeting will be held May 28 – May 31, 2018, in San Francisco.

The theme for the event is “Prevention Science in a Big Data World”. It is hoped that the event will open up a discussion about ways in which the prevention science community can make use of data and innovative technologies to develop new opportunities in prevention research.