HLTHAGE 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Harm Reduction, New Approach, Stone Age
19 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Nov 1, 2016
HLTHAGE 2B03
! of !1 3
Victim or Validated
1. New approach is to risk assessment and decision making
•Family focused, look at the mother and the child
•Keep women and child together in a group home that ensures health of both individuals
•Understand what made her addictive in the first place
2. Use a woman’s perspective - unification of mother and child - group home approach -
woman catered approach ensures future health for both mother and child - welcoming
wholistic reduction oriented
3. Apprehension free zone - attachment and stabilization be achieved and the mother’s needs
can be further accessed
•Apprehensive free zone, the child should not be taken away from the mother, caregivers
that can help when the mother is having a bad day,
•Empowerment of women when there are bad days
•Just because you have a bad day doesn't mean you should loose your child
•Free of judgement, take them at face value, not there to change them, there to support
them to keep family unit healthy and functional
•Make environment so that they feel comfortable, then people can think more clearly,
•Let her tell you what she needs to move forward in a positive way
•If there has been violence, how do we counsel for that
•When people tell there narrative, then we know how we can best support them on their
way
•Stabilization of the family unit
•Women centred care the ensures the support for the mother and facilitates them onto
motherhood
•Encourages readiness to change and growth on the part of the mother so that they can
facilitate child in best way possible
•
4. All care free of judgement for the women prior to and after delivery
5. Harm reduction and stabilizing programming - group counselling to find balance and
contemplate readiness to change
6. Reality based approach - deals with stress, violence, stigma
New approach in early developmental stages and early acceptance
Always knew who the mother was, and who the child belong to. Men didn't translate till the later
stone age when they put the pieces together
It becomes important for them to look at how they might help mentor and facilitate the women
during the women
How can we reduce the harm that is being done short term and long term?
Women are saying we aren't here to judge but the same empathy we have for the children we
should have for the mother
We should have a welcoming treatment for the mother as well
They want to understand why the mother is addictive
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
