Bridging the Gap from Abstinence- Based Addiction Treatment to Harm Reduction Treatment: My Personal...
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- Bridging the Gap from Abstinence- Based Addiction Treatment to
Harm Reduction Treatment: My Personal Journey Barry Lessin, M.Ed.,
CAADC Licensed Psychologist Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug
Counselor
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- Porch to Portland
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- War on Drugs = War on People War on people
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- Facing the Gap
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- Objectives IIlustrate what contributed to the gap, for me,
between Abstinence-Based (AB) and Harm Reduction (HR) treatment.
Offer a systems approach to facilitate the transition to HR. Share
a perspective to allow others to integrate HR into their work.
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- My path to HR: Career Summary Training/Workplace dichotomy
Career burnout Profound personal experience Public health
advocacy
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- Client-Centered & Developmental: What I Learned Carl
RogersLifespan Development
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- Conflicting Views: What I Learned vs, What I Was Doing vs.
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- Conflicting Views: What I Learned vs. What I Was Doing vs
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- Managed Care: A Two Headed Monster
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- Training & Professional Experience A Systems View Family
TherapySchool Psychology
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- Training & Professional Experience: Path to Independent
Practice
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- Career Burnout
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- Personal Experience: My Nephew
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- Perfect storm of: treatment gap addiction stigma system-wide
failure
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- Personal Experience: My Nephew Tough Love prevented crucial
connection to loved ones My expert role was bogus Returned to my
roots of addiction treatment
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- Transition Begins: Back to the Future (2011)
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- Learning About Public Health Policy
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- Witnessing the Gap in the Professional Community Drug Policy
Alliance 2011 Conference
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- Engaging in Public Health Advocacy Grief Recovery After a
Substance Passing www.grasphelp.org Broken No More
www.broken-no-more.org
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- When Grief Support Vanishes
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- My path to HR: Career Summary What I learned vs. What I did
Career burnout Profound personal experience Public health
advocacy
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- A-HA Moment!
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- From Transition...
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- ...To Transformation
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- Moving forward...
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- Systems Interaction: Micro vs. Macro
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- Connecting the Dots
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- My Burnout Blame Addict How Systems Inform Us:Micro vs Macro
Stigmatizin g, criminalizin g system Micro View Macro View
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- How Systems Inform Us: Micro vs. Macro MicroMacro More
Effective Clinician Empower to educate/change
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- Integrating and Evolving...
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- Barry Lessin, M.Ed., CAADC Licensed Psychologist Certified
Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor 1244 Ft. Washington Ave. Suite
E2 Ft. Washington, PA 19034 bless1244@yahoo.com 215-694-9146
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- Resources In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Mate Practicing
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, Patt Denning & Jeannie Little
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, Andrew Tatarsky
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- Resources www.gradualismandaddiction.org, Scott Kellogg
www.gradualismandaddiction.org Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking and
Screaming, Dee Dee Stout How to Manage Your Drinking, Kenneth
Anderson