Social Intervention and Harm Reduction

Code:

P813

Acronym:

ISRR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2007/2008 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	44	Official Curricular Structure 2007/2008	4	-	6	54	162
			5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. To know and understand what harm reduction is and its importance.
2. To distinguish social intervention and harm reduction from similar forms of intervention (communitary intervention, health education...).
3. Based on good practices examples, identify, characterise and critically discuss other projects and programs.
4. To apply acquired knoledge to concrete situations and contexts

Program

1.
1.1 Critical discussion of the concept of "risk": psychological risk, social risk, risks management, risk society,...
1.2. The context of social intervention and harm reduction: marginality and exclusion at the pos-industrial city; Drug phenomenum social evolution and the emergence of harm reduction.
2. Harm reduction notions, initial programs critics and principles. Harm reduction in the global strategy of drug intervention.
3. Harm reduction in Portugal
4. Main characteristics and programs:
4.1. characteristics: pragmatism, proximity, network,...
4.2. Programs: cdrug use/drugdependence (syringe exchange, low threshold methadone programs, harm reduction in the sintetic drugs scene, consumption rooms, peer work,...); other harm reduction programs (sex work, alcohol consumption,...)

Mandatory literature

Grup IGIA; Contextos, sujetos y drogas: un manual sobre drogodependencias, Fundación de Ayuda contra la Drogadicción, 2000
O'Hare, P., Newcombe, R., Matthews, A., Buning, E. & Drucker, E.; La reducción de los daños relacionados con las drogas, Grup IGIA, 1995
Marlatt G. Alan co-aut.; Harm reducation. ISBN: ISBN 1-57230-397-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expositive, group discussions, study visits to social intervention and harm reduction projects.

keywords

Social sciences > Sociology > Urban sociology
Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	52,00
	Exame	2,00
	Trabalho escrito	42,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	66
	Total:	66,00

Eligibility for exams

Students must get the minimum result of 9,5 in a scale of 20.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final result will be obtained by the addition of:
- 60% from the final result obtained in the final exame;
- 40% from the result obtained in the practical work

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students with specific statutes will be evaluated in the same way.

Classification improvement

The attemp to improve the final result will be possible by repeating the final exam in the subsequent season.