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About the course
This course is for all those who work with drug users in any setting but particularly those involved in hostels, resettlement or day centres. This course will build workers confidence in working with harm reduction techniques, explore the main conflicts in following a harm reduction policy, show why a harm reduction approach is the only really successful way forward. It will provide workers with an overview of the philosophy and practice of harm reduction and will introduce the use of techniques such as Brief Therapy.
Note:
This course describes the technique of Harm Reduction used with drug users - it does not cover reduction of self-harm injuries, such as cutting
Course Content
- What do we mean by harm reduction?
- Why bother with this approach?
- Ways of openly working with harm reduction without compromising a project
- The supreme importance of networking
- Staff attitudes to the harm reduction approach
- The public's attitude to the harm reduction approach
- How to 'sell' a harm reduction approach
- Harm reduction and keyworking
- Harm reduction and confidentiality
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course participants will:
- Understand the many positives of a harm reduction approach
- Be able to give explicit, but safe, messages about harm reduction
- Understand the importance of getting support from other, appropriate, agencies
- Understand that a harm reduction approach can be a safer and a more realistic way forward than they may have thought
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