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Harm Reduction Treatment for Substance Use

Virtual
On Demand
1.5 CE Hour
Clinical, Substance Abuse
Free

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Location

  • On Demand
    Sessions will be available On-Demand
Description

The term harm reduction refers to a broad set of compassionate and pragmatic approaches that aim to reduce substance-related harm and improve quality of life, without necessarily having to stop or reduce use of substances. Harm reduction treatment (HaRT) is an empirically-supported substance use treatment approach in which 3 components are delivered compassionately and pragmatically: Client-led tracking of preferred metrics, Harm-reduction goal-setting, and Safer-use strategies. In this training, we will discuss the grounding of HaRT in the larger, grassroots harm-reduction movement practice, its rationale and its key components.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase knowledge about HaRT (Harm reduction treatment).

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and describe the evidence-based harm reduction treatment model discussed in the training, and compare it with another existing substance use treatment model.

  • Identify the three components of the harm-reduction approach to treatment..

  • Explain two ways in which you could incorporate the harm-reduction treatment components into clinical practice for substance use treatment and beyond.

Introductory
Clinical
Substance Abuse
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by APA Division 50: Society of Addiction Psychology. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
  • Waiting Room Opens
  • Workshop Begins
  • Workshop Ends
Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Susan E Collins, PhD

Susan E. Collins, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and co-founder of HaRT3S, which provides harm reduction treatment trainings, consultations, and technical solutions. Dr. Collins is also a Professor at Washington State University and the University of Washington, the latter where she codirects the Harm Reduction Research and Treatment (HaRRT) Center with Dr. Seema Clifasefi. She has been involved in substance use research, assessment and treatment for over 25 years and has disseminated this work in over 7 dozen book chapters, abstracts and peer-reviewed articles, including a recently published book from Hogrefe’s Advancing Psychotherapy series called “Harm Reduction Treatment for Substance Use.”

She is a proud member of Division 50, where she has previously served as Program Chair and Membership Committee Chair. Using a user-centered design and community-based participatory research approaches, Dr. Collins works with multidisciplinary research and clinical teams, community-based agencies, and people who use substances to co-develop, evaluate and implement interventions that aim to reduce substance-related harm and improve quality of life for people who use substances and their communities. Her goal is to work to find ways to expand the breadth and reach of substance-use treatment so people don’t have to stop using to start recovery. Dr. Collins lives in rural Tyler, WA, with her husband and Native health researcher, Dr. Lonnie Nelson and 7-year old daughter, Emmi. She enjoys knitting, skiing, foraging, and kitchen witchery. Her favorite part of the week is volunteering for the Burritos for the People program sponsored by Spokane Community Against Racism in downtown Spokane, WA. She notes, “I am a mother, a wife, a sister and a daughter embedded within families affected by the intergenerational experience of trauma, addictive behaviors and substance use disorder. I attended my first 12-step meeting when I was 16, and my families’ and my own lived experiences drive my desire to reduce the stigma of addictive behaviors and meet people where they are at in all aspects of my work.”

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