61st
Annual Conference
Saturday,
February 28
Morning Workshops
9:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon
Workshop
95
Harm
Reduction Group Treatment of Substance Abuse and Dual Diagnosis
Chair:
Jeannie Little,
M.S.W., CGP,
Executive Director, Harm Reduction Therapy
Center, San
Francisco, California
Harm Reduction
Psychotherapy is a radical new paradigm in treating addiction. It
integrates evidence-based treatment models and neurobiological
understanding of the interplay between alcohol, drugs, and
mental/emotional illness into a psychodynamic treatment
relationship. This workshop demonstrates how harm reduction therapy
groups can work with ambivalence, resistance, diversity in addictive
patterns, and incremental change in addictive behavior.
demonstration-sharing of work experiences-didactic-experiential
Course References:
1. Denning, P. (2000).
Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An
Alternative Approach to
Addiction. New York: Guilford.
2. Little, J. (2002).
Harm
reduction group therapy: The sobriety support group. In Andrew
Tatarsky,
Ed. Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and
Alcohol Problems. New
Jersey: Aronson.
3.
Spotnitz, H. (1957). The borderline schizophrenic in group
psychotherapy: The importance of
individualization. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 7,
25-34.
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