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ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: ACC Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: ACC Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: ACC Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: ACC Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Crown Law Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Crown Law Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: FairWay Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: FairWay Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Health and Disability Commissioner Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Health and Disability Commissioner Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Inglewood District Health Trust Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Inglewood District Health Trust Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Kianga Ora Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Kianga Ora Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Ministry of Social Development Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Ministry of Social Development Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: NZ Drug Foundation Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: NZ Drug Foundation Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Odyssey Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Odyssey Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: ProCare Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: ProCare Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Problem Gambling Foundation New Zealand Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Sovereign Insurance Supervision Programm
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Sovereign Insurance Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Taikura Trust Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Taikura Trust Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Te Whanua O Waipareira Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Te Whanua O Waipareira Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: THINK Hauora Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: THINK Hauora Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Whakarongorau Aotearoa New Zealand Telehealth Services Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Whakarongorau Aotearoa New Zealand Telehealth Services Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: WorkSafe New Zealand Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: WorkSafe New Zealand Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Veterans' Affairs Supervision Programme
ABACUS Counselling, Training and Supervision: Veterans' Affairs Supervision Programm
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Certificate of Addiction and Mental Health Supervision. NZQA Level Six.
Certificate of Addiction and Mental Health Supervision. NZQA Level Six.
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ABACUS Self Help Tests
Computer Gaming Test
This test will assist you to understand if playing computer games, online internet gaming, or other electronic games on smart phones or tablets is starting to cause you problems and even harm. This test will apply whether or not you are playing the game on your own, or playing against other players, or playing with others in a team...take the test
Internet Sexual Behaviour Evaluation Test (ISBET)
If you answer yes to two or more ISBET questions you may be developing problems around your use of Internet pornography...take the test
Concerned Others Gambling Screen (COGS) Mk 2 (online version)
Sometimes someone else’s gambling can affect the health and well-being of others who may be concerned. The gambling behaviour is often hidden and unexpected, while its effects can be confusing, stressful and long-lasting. To help us identify if this is affecting your own well-being could you answer the questions below to the best of your ability...take the test
Eight Gambling Screen, Logo and LinkEight Gambling Screen – Early Intervention Gambling Health Test
Most people in New Zealand enjoy gambling, whether it’s Lotto, Track racing, the Pokies or at the casino. Sometimes however it can affect our health...take the test
Te Whare o Tiki
Co-existing problems knowledge and skills framework. This framework has been adapted by Dr Fraser Todd and the joint mental health and addiction workforce development centres based on the work of Dr Tom Flewett and the Co-existing Disorders Team of Capital and Coast DHB, Community Alcohol and Drug Service.
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ABACUS Counselling, Training & Supervision Ltd – Course Information for Learners
You are encouraged to read the following information to become acquainted with important details associated with taking an ABACUS training course. (Support Service; Rules & Regulations; Complaints & Disciplinary Procedures; Health & Safety Requirements etc)
Preventing and Minimising Gambling Harm: Practitioner’s Guide This Ministry of Health document is intended for the PMGH (preventing and minimising gambling harm) intervention service providers.
Ministry of Health – Gambling Harm Minimisation – ABACUS Feedback to the Ministry regarding Emerging Trends in National & International Literature. This summary of research has relevance to the clinical workforce, it forms part of a regulary six monthly report provided by ABACUS to the Miinistry

Ministry of Health
Gambling Harm Minimisation Training Modules
for Treatment Intervention

Learning Programmes for Gambling Harm Minimisation Treatment
The objective of this document is to inform problem gambling intervention (treatment) service providers of the current tertiary learning opportunities (on-site and distance learning) in New Zealand for both general addiction qualifications and problem gambling qualifications. In addition, distance learning opportunities for overseas institutions, offering problem gambling courses, are also detailed.
Co-existing problem (CEP) service checklist
The CEP service checklist is a brief tool for mental health and addiction (AOD/problem gambling) services to use for self-assessment, reflection and planning to develop service level CEP responsiveness and capability...
Eight Screen Validation, Final Report, Cover and LinkEight Screen Validation – Final Report (Download)
The Eight Gambling Screen is brief (eight questions), simple to use and interpret, and has been found to be valid and effective in a wide range of situations, including clinical, social, and health promotion settings (early identification of gambling problems).
ABACUS Articles

Maintaining Safety from Distress
Working from home during a pandemic such as Covid-19. For the majority of us, working from home on a continuous basis will be a new, and often challenging change to our lives. This change is compounded by the ominous context of a worldwide pandemic, inflow of daily negative updates, and the restriction in a most important defence to our wellbeing; our ability to socialise and share our concerns directly with others. Although the recent lockdown has been timed to initially last four weeks, this is a somewhat arbitrary period that may extend for a considerably longer period, and therefore such uncertainty is likely to impact upon our level of wellbeing, anxiety, mood, and behaviour. Adjusting and living within our ‘bubble’ with others, or alone, will heavily influence how we experience each day, as well as our ongoing ability to cope.

Workplace Stress – Employers’ Responsibilities & Solutions
The term ‘stress’ has had mixed press over the years either because of poor understanding of what the term means or due to the range of interpretations that we often give to it. For many, stress is seen as a necessary part of any challenging job that can contribute to positive results; from this perspective stress can put us on alert and focuses our resources...
Trauma Counselling and Supervision
Responses to Trauma: In the event of any natural disaster or in fact, any happening outside the scope of our normal experience and coping abilities, it is natural to feel stressed, anxious and on edge, and have difficulty focusing and managing usual, everyday activities. In stressful times, especially when we don’t know what is going to happen next, and we also feel concerned for others in our care, our usual coping mechanisms become stretched.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): a therapy for all seasons
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is perhaps the most researched therapeutic approach over the last half Century...
Anxiety and Coexisting Addiction: a Common Alliance
Anxiety is a very common emotion. It can arise when we suddenly remember something we should have done but forgotten to do, and it’s due now! It can also occur as part of a very primitive survival process...
Alcohol Use Problems
An overview: Alcohol is of course a legal but controlled drug, similar to the situation with tobacco. Ironically, the misuse of this legal drug (as does the use of tobacco) has costs for individuals and society that far outreach the cost of illegal drugs. The World Health Organisation identifies alcohol (through intoxication, its toxicity, and alcohol dependence), as the third highest risk factor for disease throughout the world. In New Zealand, alcohol harm costs are estimated at between $1-4 billion each year.
Methamphetamine and Other Illegal Drugs: an Overview
Prevalence of use in New Zealand: Although most damage from drug use comes from the legal drugs alcohol and tobacco, it is often illegal drugs that capture the concern and fear of communities. Illegal drugs include methamphetamine in its pure form (“P” if New Zealand made; ‘ice’ or ‘crystal meth’ if imported), heroin and ‘homebake’ (New Zealand made opiate), GHB (“Fantasy”; induces memory loss), cocaine, and lesser strength amphetamine-like drugs such as MDMA (“Ecstasy”, which also is a hallucinogen), non-prescribed Ritalin and some party drugs (BZP) which were made illegal in April, 2008.
Tobacco Smoking Fact sheet
Although tobacco smoking is decreasing in New Zealand, 18% of adults smoke...