How do personal beliefs about sex and drugs affect service provision?
Service providers will learn about their perceptions, beliefs, values, and ideas about substance use and how it may affect building a therapeutic relationship. Explore the spectrum of substance use in clients. Explore the pros and cons of drug use with clients and provide an open, honest, and balanced conversation. Viewers learn how to maintain the discussion of the whole person in the biopsychosocial context of the client. Learn how to delve into our own biases and provide clients centered care without personal beliefs creating barriers to allow clients to speak openly in a safe and therapeutic space.