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Harm reduction therapy with families and friends of people with drug problems

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
123 KB
Volume
66
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9762

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Abstract

This article describes and illustrates the ongoing development of a treatment for working with families and friends of drug users using harm reduction principles. The author was instrumental in applying harm reduction principles to substance abuse and has used these same principles to help families deal with the pessimism, pain, and grief that accompany their relationship to a person with an active substance abuse problem. The treatment involves learning decision‐making processes based on both self‐care and love for the substance abuser and is based on the values of harm reduction, caring, and incrementalism, rather than those of codependency, tough love, and abrupt behavior change. A long‐term family therapy group and two family consultations illustrate the treatment and its applications. Β© 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 66: 1–11, 2010.

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