Is Harm Reduction Therapy Good or Bad?
SWO 438
Amanda Henegar
November 4, 2016
Is Harm Reduction Therapy Good or Bad?
Harm reduction therapy is still a controversial form of therapy in today’s society. Harm reduction is an approach used to prevent harm while not eliminating the behavior of drug use. This approach allows a drug user to still use drugs but in a safer environment and a safer amount of the drug, to decrease overdosing (Denning & Little, 2012).
What have I learned?
Before learning about harm reduction in this class, I did not know too much about it. Throughout my previous job, I had heard the term harm reduction several times, but had not actually learned about it. I had worked for a local non-profit outpatient mental health agency in the runaway and homeless youth program. …show more content…
(2016). The significance of harm reduction as a social and health care intervention for injecting drug users: An exploratory study of a need exchange program in Fresno, California. Social Work in Public Health, 31(5), 398-407. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2015.1137522.
Denning, P. & Little, P. (2012). Practicing harm reduction psychotherapy: An alternative approach to addictions (2nd ed.). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Henwood, B., Padgett, D., & Tiderington, E. (2014). Provider views of harm reduction versus abstinence policies within homeless services for dually diagnosed adults. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 41(1). doi: 10.1007/s114-013-9318-2.
National Association of Social Workers (2008). Code of ethics. Retrieved from https://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp.
Sander, G., Scandurra, A., Kamenska, A., MacNamara, C., Kalpaki, C., Fernandez-Bessa, C.,…. Antypas, T. (2016). Overview of harm reduction in prisons in seven European countries. Harm Reduction Journal, 13(28). doi:
SWO 438
Amanda Henegar
November 4, 2016
Is Harm Reduction Therapy Good or Bad?
Harm reduction therapy is still a controversial form of therapy in today’s society. Harm reduction is an approach used to prevent harm while not eliminating the behavior of drug use. This approach allows a drug user to still use drugs but in a safer environment and a safer amount of the drug, to decrease overdosing (Denning & Little, 2012).
What have I learned?
Before learning about harm reduction in this class, I did not know too much about it. Throughout my previous job, I had heard the term harm reduction several times, but had not actually learned about it. I had worked for a local non-profit outpatient mental health agency in the runaway and homeless youth program. …show more content…
(2016). The significance of harm reduction as a social and health care intervention for injecting drug users: An exploratory study of a need exchange program in Fresno, California. Social Work in Public Health, 31(5), 398-407. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2015.1137522.
Denning, P. & Little, P. (2012). Practicing harm reduction psychotherapy: An alternative approach to addictions (2nd ed.). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Henwood, B., Padgett, D., & Tiderington, E. (2014). Provider views of harm reduction versus abstinence policies within homeless services for dually diagnosed adults. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 41(1). doi: 10.1007/s114-013-9318-2.
National Association of Social Workers (2008). Code of ethics. Retrieved from https://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp.
Sander, G., Scandurra, A., Kamenska, A., MacNamara, C., Kalpaki, C., Fernandez-Bessa, C.,…. Antypas, T. (2016). Overview of harm reduction in prisons in seven European countries. Harm Reduction Journal, 13(28). doi: