Culturally Competent Psychotherapy

Harm reduction is a framework for helping drug and alcohol users who cannot or will not stop completelythe majority of usersreduce the harmful consequences of use. Harm reduction accepts that abstinence may be the best outcome for many but relaxes the emphasis on abstinence as the only acceptable goal and criterion of success. Instead, smaller incremental changes in the direction of reduced harmfulness of drug use are accepted. This book will show how these simple changes in emphasis and expectation have dramatic implications for improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy in many ways.Tatarsky, Andrew is the author of 'Culturally Competent Psychotherapy' with ISBN 9780765703736 and ISBN 0765703734.