Identify and describe a client (fictional or real) in terms of a theoretical approach to harm reduction model practice.
Design a harm reduction assessment and intervention plan for a client (fictional or real).
Articulate connections between social work values and harm reduction principles.
Analyze and reflect the importance of courage, creativity, cooperation, and collaboration in successful implementation of harm reduction interventions, programs, and policies.
Apply strategies for dealing with family and friends who are unfamiliar with or misunderstand harm reduction.
Integrate the value of harm reduction in community and organizational settings.
What is harm reduction.
Harm reduction origins and evolution.
Harm reduction and social work. Why practice harm reduction.
Assessment as treatment.
Substance use. Developing a treatment plan.
Sexual health. Fundamentals of harm reduction.
Contributions from psychodynamic theory, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavior therapy. Corrections.
Domestic violence. Harm reduction and biology.
Homelessness, housing insecurity. Sex work. Trauma.
Eating disorders. Gambling/gaming. Mezzo level harm reduction practice.
Sex offender treatment. Harm reduction policy.
Public policy. Trust, relationship, and connection.
Case presentations.
Mandatory Bibliography
Arteaga, S. & Gomez, A.M. (2016). “Is this a method of birth control?” A qualitative exploration of young women’s use of withdrawal. Journal of Sex Research, 53(4-5), 626-632. Bigler, M.O. (2005). Harm reduction as a practice and prevention model for social work. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work Education, 10, 69-86. Denning, P. & Little, J. (2012). Practicing harm reduction psychotherapy: An alternative approach to addictions (2nd ed.). Guilford Press. Hansen, K.R. & Locatelli, C.C. (2022). From sex dolls to sex robots and beyond: A narrative review of theoretical and empirical research on human-like and personified sex tech. Current Sexual Health Reports, 14, 106-117. Roane, J.T. (2019). Black harm reduction politics in the early Philadelphia epidemic. Souls, 21(2-3), 144-152. Tatarsky, A. (2002). Harm reduction psychotherapy: A new treatment for drug and alcohol problems. Lanham. Rowan and Littlefield.
Optional Bibliography
'Amaro, A., I., Bigler, M. O., Borges, M. & da Luz, M. M. (2022). Redução de Danos: O Gatillo para Novas Práticas em Serviço Social (Harm Reduction: A Trigger for New Practices in Social Work). In M. I de Carvalho (Ed.), Práticas de Intervenção do Serviço Social na Saúde (Social Intervention Practices in Health) (pp. 37-50). Pactor. Bianchi, A., Stanley, K., & Sutandar, K. (2020). The ethical defensibility of harm reduction and eating disorders. American Journal of Bioethics, 21(7), 46-56. doi: 10/1080/15265161.2020.1863509 Dea, S. (2020). Toward of philosophy of harm reduction. Health Care Analysis, 28, 302-313. doi: 10.1007/s10728-020-00405-x Harcourt, C. & Donovan, B. (2004). The many faces of sex work. Sexual Transmission and Infection, 81, 201-206. Doi: 10.1136/sti.2004.012468 Hovey, A., Roberts, C., Scott, S., & Chambers, L. (2020). Understanding the landscape of substance use management practices in domestic violence shelters across Ontario. Journal of Family Violence, 35, 191-201. doi: 10.1007/210896-019-00056-0 Karoll, B.R. (2010). Applying social work approaches, harm reduction, and practice wisdom to better serve those with alcohol and drug use disorders. Journal of Social Work, 10(30), 263-281 Kaplan, J. & Goh, L. S. (2022). Physical harm reduction in domestic violence: Does marijuana make assaults safer? Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(7-8), NP5269-NP5293. doi: 10.1177/0886260520961876 Asco, G. (2022). Decolonizing harm reduction. Harm Reduction Journal, 19, 1-8. Doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00593-w Lentz, C., Lopez-Rios, J., Dolezal, C., Kutner, B. A., Rael, C. T. & Balan, I. C. (2022). Negotiating use of a blood-based, dual HIV and syphilis test with potential sexual partners among a sample of cisgender men and transgender women who have sex with men in New York City. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 2015-2025. doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02275-3 Liebrenz, M., Gamma, A., Buadze, A., Schleifer, R., Baggio, S., Schwartz, B., Schneeberger, A., & Uchtenhagen, A. (2020). Fifteen years of heroin-assisted treatment in a Swiss prison – a retrospective cohort study. Harm Reduction Journal, 17, 1-8. doi: 10.1186/s12954-020-00412-0