Social Intervention and Harm Reduction

Code:

P813

Acronym:

ISRR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2010/2011 - 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	30	Official Curricular Structure 2007/2008	4	-	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. 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 without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	84,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

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

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification (between 0 and 20) is obtained through the following calculation:
- 50% of individual work consisting on a critical and integrative reflection based on what was learned;
- 50% of the classification is obtained in a practical work to be carried out in group and consisting in the slection, characterization and critical discussion about an harm reduction intervention program;
It is necessary that the student gets at least 8 in each of those evaluation components and the final classification must be of at least 10.
Missing one of those evaluation components will make it impossible to get approval.

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.