HARM REDUCTION
Pragmatic Strategies for Managing High-Risk Behaviors
G. Alan Marlatt (Ed.)
Guilford Publications, 1998

LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand the principles of harm reduction and its public policy
• Know some of its applications to addictive and high-risk sexual behaviors, matching strategies to diverse ethnic communities
• Help clients understand the risks involved in their behaviors
• Help clients make appropriate decisions about their own treatment goals
• Understand the principles of harm reduction education
• Learn the harm reduction model of drug abuse treatment
• Learn when abstinence is the only acceptable goal of prevention for which addictions
• Learn about compassionate pragmatism
• Learn the effectiveness of long-term moderate drinking versus long-term abstinence for alcohol dependent clients
• Learn the considerations for treating a client who smokes
• Learn the treatment options for harm reduction for illicit substance use and abuse
• Understand the benefits of the needle exchange program
• Learn the characteristics of African American communicative and behavioral patterns which must be incorporated into harm reduction efforts for the black community
• Learn harm reduction strategies for treating Native Americans

G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is a member of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse and a recipient of the Jellinek Memorial Award. His research is supported by a Senior Scientist Award and a MERIT Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He is co-editor (with Dennis M. Donovan) of ASSESSMENT OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS and (with Judith R. Gordon) RELAPSE PREVENTION, and a co-author of BRIEF ALCOHOL SCREENING AND INTERVENTION FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS.

15 CE credits; 375 pages

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