Social Intervention and Harm Reduction

Code:

P813

Acronym:

ISRR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2018/2019 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=405995
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	27	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162
MTP	12	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	54	162

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. To know the different areas, methods and strategies used in drug use and sex work' s harm reduction.
4. Based on good practices examples, identify, characterise and critically discuss other projects and programs.
5. To apply acquired knoledge to concrete situations and contexts

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

- Know and understand the meaning of harm reduction and its importance

- Know the different areas, methods and strategies associated with drug use and sex work' s harm reduction

- Identify, characterize and critically discuss different harm reduction programs and intervention projects

Working method

Presencial

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: drug use/drugdependence (syringe exchange, low threshold methadone programs, harm reduction in the sintetic drugs scene, consumption rooms, peer work,...); sex work (out reach and drop in center interventions; the main areas: HIV/AIDS ans STI, health promotion, violence and exploitation, human and civil rights, empowerment; methods: peer education, counselling and support, use of internet, informative materials,...; intervention with sex workers, clients and managers); ohter progras (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
Gaffney Justin 340; Practical guidelines for delivering health services to sex workers. ISBN: 978-90-812297-4-6
WHO/SEARO | WHO/WPRO; Toolkit for monitoring and evaluation of interventions for sex workers, World Health Organization, 2009
Rekart, M.L.; Sex-work harm reduction, Lancet, 2006
Heddrich, D. & Rhodes, T.; Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges, EMCDDA, 2010
Hart, C. ; High price., Harper, 2013

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expositive, group discussion, conferences by specialists, screening of documentaries followed by discussion.

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	3,50
Estudo autónomo	74,50
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Presence in the classes is very important but it is not mandatory.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

The final mark (in a 0 to 20 points rating scale) is obtained through the following calculation:
- Practical group work - to be developed throughout the semester, presented in one of the last classes and with a written report: 50% weighting;
- Final exam - on the subjects lectured during the semester: 50% weighting
In each of the evaluation components, the student must obtain a minimum score of 10 points. For successfully completing the course, students must achieve a final mark of 10.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students with specific statutes will be evaluated by the completion of an individual written work replacing the group work done by other students for evaluation of the practical component (50% of the final grade) and undertaking an oral or written exam on what is taught in the course replacing the final exam (50% of final grade).

Classification improvement

The attemp to improve the final result will be possible by repeating, once, the final exam in the subsequent season to that when approval was reached and whenever the UC has exam scheduled. the improvement will only be appliable to 50% of the classification refering to the final exam.