Training Overview:
Harm reduction has its origins in grassroots social justice and mutual aid. The Spirit of Harm Reduction examines the history and state of the four-part U.S. harm reduction movement and its impact on the creation and current use of Harm Reduction Therapy (HRT). This training explores beliefs systems, countertransference, and basic assessment models for working with people that use substances. A high number of people that use or abuse substances or have a substance use disorder also deal with mental health symptoms or have mental health diagnosis. It has become more essential for health care providers to become adept at working with people who use substances and or have a dual diagnosis. Harm Reduction Therapy helps to equip providers with the tools to work with people who use substances, people who have mental health symptoms, and those who have a comorbid occurrence of these two.
Training Objectives:
- Recognize at least one reason how stigmatizing language contributes negatively to clinician countertransference.
- Identify at least two parts of the four parts of the U.S. harm reduction movement.
- Indicate at least two levels of substance use on the continuum drug.
- Utilize the harm reduction perspective to identify at least two reasons why people use substances.
Facilitator: Maurice Byrd, LMFT (He/Him/His)
Organized By: The Harm Reduction Training Institute
