Harm Reduction Strategies

This paper will focus on client’s presenting concerns and her biopsysocial system. Reader will explore how Solution Focused Therapy and Harm Reduction Therapy are relevant to client’s problems and why they would be most effective for client. Two intervention models that are relevant to the theories chosen will be outlined and how they relate to the client. An intervention plan that includes goals for the client will be evaluated and measured. Finally, the paper will discuss how the model chosen for intervention will have an impact on the macro level of change.

Cleaning products, chemicals, first aid supplies must be clearly and correctly labeled. Any substances that are deemed harmful such as irritants and toxic or corrosive substances must not be used unless a risk assessment has been carried out and a procedure in place for its use.

Other related areas including indoor air quality (IAQ) and safety may also receive the attention of the occupational hygienist. Biological hazards may stem from the potential for legionella exposure at work or the investigation of biological injury or effects at work, such as dermatitis may be investigated.  Aim to Protecting People :- The goal of the industrial hygienist is to keep workers, their families, and the community healthy and safe. They play a vital part in ensuring that federal, state, and local laws and regulations are followed in the work environment. Typical roles of the industrial hygienist include:  Investigating and examining the workplace for hazards and potential dangers  Making recommendations on improving the safety of workers and the surrounding community  Conducting scientific research to provide data on possible harmful conditions in the workplace  Developing techniques to anticipate and control potentially dangerous situations in the workplace 3 Page and the community  Training and educating the community about jobrelated risks  Advising government officials and participating in the development of regulations to ensure the health and safety of workers and their families  Ensuring that workers are properly following health and safety

According to Plog and Quinlan (2012) explains the four tenets of industrial hygiene. Furthermore, states that anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control are the useful tenants of workplace hygiene that allow an industrial hygienist to minimize the exposures of hazards by implementing appropriate controls. The controls may include proper disposal of chemical and biodegradable materials. To be effective in recognizing and evaluating on the job hazards and recommending controls, industrial hygienists must be familiar with the hazards' characteristics. Major job risks can include air contaminants, and chemical, biological, physical, and ergonomic hazards.

There is no doubt that college campuses are filled with alcohol and parties. Many students engage in alcohol consumption and some also use drugs. Although alcohol use is widely accepted in the college student population there are intervention plans attempting to limit alcohol consumption to protect students from the negative consequences associated with alcohol abuse. This is a compilation of a few different behavioral intervention strategies for reducing alcohol consumption in college age students. According to Dr. Amaro of the Institute on Urban Research at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and Reed, Rowe, Picci, Mantella, and Prado, (2010), implementation of the “Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS)” can be linked to safer drinking practices among college students (2010). Two of the articles used for this research are about brief intervention strategies for college students. There was an interesting theory based intervention strategy, whose goal was to reduce pre-drinking (Caudwell, Mullan, Hagger, 2016). Pre-drinking is the act of drinking before going to the planned event for the night. Electronic interventions were also a mentioned method. One case study utilized an alternative counseling protocol with a combination of a brief intervention strategy as well. Self-monitoring interventions are a useful way to

In January of 2009 the government took action against the recommendation of the ACMD, and move Cannabis from a Class C drug to a Class B drug, based on the foundations of the Misue of Drugs act 1971 this would indicate that evidence of increased harm has been discovered. Jacqui Smith, the home secretary at the time of this action justified the act with the following quote “decision takes into account issues such as public perception and the needs and consequences for policing priorities, where this is, doubt about the potential harm that will be caused, we must err on the side of caution and protect the public.” - Reference

The idea of a drug free society is a joke. There’s no way for us to completly irradicate drug use, whether it be legal or illigal. A harm reduction approach is much more succesful in the long run at reducing the number of addicts and drug related deaths (Nadelmann). Over the past 10 year some of the more progressive countries around the world have made great strides in reducing the amount of deaths and diseases caused by heroin specifcally (Borden). Many of these harm reduction programs are still in their infancy but “It’s a cautious first step, but an urgently needen one” (Borden). Heroin related death and disease can be greatly reduced through the implementation of general drug reform laws as they pertain to heroin, making sterile needles

The first reading by Tatarsky and Marlatt emphasises upon harm reduction psychotherapy as a treatment for substance abuse disorders. I feel harm reduction represents a new, but timeless, way of approaching substance abuse in order to help people where they live, by recognizing and addressing the multitude of their problems, and by accepting all progress as beneficial and something to be built upon.

Substance abuse, along with the behaviors that go accompany the disease of addiction, are incredibly dangerous and life-threatening. Not only do the substances themselves raise the chances of disease transmission, long-term negative health effects, as well as overdose, the situations in which those fighting substance use disorders find themselves are equally dangerous. It is clear that there an ethical approach to prevention and intervention with this issue would seek to limit, decrease, and hopefully, eliminate these patterns. However, with a variety of different circumstances in each individual’s unique worldview, certain strategies have the potential to cause iatrogenic harm.

When I am at work, I always wear gloves and masks to protect myself from toxic chemicals that I use, even at home, as well as advise my staff to do the same. A couple of years back, I tried to go green and use only green products at my center. However, at that time, it was too expensive to keep up.

An assessment of the risks to health arising from the use of hazardous substances at work and deciding what precautions are needed,

According to the international harm reduction association (2011) harm reduction is defined as “policies, programs and practices to reduce the adverse consequences of legal and illegal psychoactive without necessarily reducing the drug consumption.”

Baker (2011), found that the cognitive-behavioral substance prevention approach is effective and focusses on teaching of social resistance skills within the larger context of an intervention designed to enhance general social and personal competence. This prevention strategy when implemented with additional booster sessions can result into reduction of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use. This prevention strategy is effective for both males and females. This prevention program can also result in causing a significant impact on several hypothesized mediating variables.

It is possible for anything to be an addiction. It doesn't have to be to an illegal substance, or to alcohol, or other questionable activity. So what ever the addiction is that you are wanting to stop know that you an stop it.

Recent studies show that teaching prevention about binge drinking are more effective if they have an “harm reduction” approach, instead of focus in the legal consequences of binge drinking. (Difluvio, Linowski,Mazziotti & Puleo, 2010) Difulvio et al suggests that interventions based on cognitive-behavioral skill training and motivational enhancement approaches are effective in reducing risk behaviors. The PRECEDE-PROCEDE were used as health-teaching model due it similarity with the nurse process (Allender, Rector &Warner, 2014 p.371). A study conducted by Kelsey Anderson et al (2015) about educational program and binge drinking was used as reference for the elaboration and PRECEDE-PROCEDE scheme, finding on the teaching portion of this