89. Dr. Pauline Stewart - Family Drug Support, Evidence Based Practice, and the Opportunities of A.I‪.‬ Down to Earth Conversations

Dr Pauline Stewart is an educator, a psychologist, an Anglican Priest, and when she was an age when many would be hanging up their work clothes, she was starting up a charity to support the family and friends of people with alcohol or other drug habits.
We talk about her time as a teacher and why she moved into psychology. We discuss her time working for the Ministry of Education as a psychologist. And we talk about Family Drug Support, the charity Pauline founded to educate and support people whose loved ones are misusing alcohol or other drugs. Pauline shares about why and how it started. We get into evidence based practice and why that is important, and Pauline shares about the opportunity she sees in this area to use new technologies including A.I.
Find Family Drug Support on their website, fds.org.nz or find out how to financially support them here
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