Clinical Interventions for Harm Reduction Patients

Clinical Interventions for Harm Reduction Patients

The addiction profession has made incredible progress in adopting harm reduction strategies as clinical intervention tools for persons with substance use disorders. Many patients in a harm reduction clinical pathway will often express no need or no desire for counseling. Unfortunately in this scenario, the clinical interventions that are most effective for a patient who does not believe they need treatment are not used. Counselors simply stop and feel ambivalent about "pressuring a patient" into counseling that they express they are not in need of. In this presentation, participants will review which clinical interventions most effective for people who express they do not want or do not need counseling.

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