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Spreken over de Onuitspreekbare:<i>Over God spreken</i>, een tekst van Thomas van Aquino uit de <i>Summa Theologiae</i> (I, Q.13)
No full textHarm Goris en Sujin Rosie nemen je in hoofdstuk 3 mee in hun gedachten bij een tekst uit de Summa Theologiae van Thomas van Aquino. Thomas brengt hen tot een gesprek over interreligieuze dialoog. Ook denken zij na over de verhouding tussen theologie als academische wetenschap en liturgische beoefening van je geloof. Staan liturgie en rationele overtuiging tegenover elkaar, of kunnen ze juist naar elkaar toeleiden? Hoe verhouden het ervaren en het doordenken zich tot elkaar voor een theoloog
Spreken over de Onuitspreekbare:<i>Over God spreken</i>, een tekst van Thomas van Aquino uit de <i>Summa Theologiae</i> (I, Q.13)
No full textHarm Goris en Sujin Rosie nemen je in hoofdstuk 3 mee in hun gedachten bij een tekst uit de Summa Theologiae van Thomas van Aquino. Thomas brengt hen tot een gesprek over interreligieuze dialoog. Ook denken zij na over de verhouding tussen theologie als academische wetenschap en liturgische beoefening van je geloof. Staan liturgie en rationele overtuiging tegenover elkaar, of kunnen ze juist naar elkaar toeleiden? Hoe verhouden het ervaren en het doordenken zich tot elkaar voor een theoloog
A Qualitative Analysis of Perceptions of Self-Harm in Members of the General Public.
Get PDFPurpose: Previous research into health care professionals’ perceptions of self-harm has found that, although complex, in some cases, their perceptions can be somewhat negative and unsympathetic towards individuals who harm themselves. However, it is presently unclear whether these perceptions reflect more general attitudes to self-harm in broader social groups. The present study represents a preliminary investigation into perceptions of self-harm in the general public. Firstly, since there is no universal agreement on which behaviours constitute self-harm, this study aimed to investigate public perceptions of this, including whether participants identified more controversial behaviours such as eating disorders and body modification as methods of self-harm in addition to the more commonly identified behaviours such as cutting and burning. Secondly, it aimed to identify whether attitudes towards individuals who self-harm in a small sample of the general public were similar to the sometimes negative and unsympathetic perceptions of health care professionals demonstrated in some previous studies.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven participants, none of whom had any professional or academic experience or knowledge of self-harm, who were recruited via second acquaintances of the first author. A matrix based thematic analysis method was used to analyse the data collected.
Findings: The main findings of this study were that eating disorders were generally perceived as forms of self-harm while body modification was not, and that participants generally showed sympathy towards individuals who self-harm, especially when they perceived the behaviour to be associated with mental illness.
Originality/Value: Although, given the small size of the sample, this should be considered a preliminary study, our findings suggest that developing a greater understanding of public perceptions of self-harm could have important implications for understanding mental health professionals’ perceptions of the phenomenon. We suggest that stigma and negative perceptions of people who self-harm may not be inevitable and that further research in this area could be of value in informing public and professional education campaigns in this area
Reducing structural harm to empower youth
Get PDFPresented at the Harm Reduction International Conference (HR19), Porto, Portugal 2019. Amidst one of the most significant public health emergencies, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) recognized the need to address the growing and changing needs of youth accessing services within Vancouver. The Opioid Crisis, followed by a Provincial inquiry into the death of a youth aging out of Government Care highlighted the fact that although youth were connected to the appropriate services, they continued to fall through the cracks of the system, potentially leading to dire outcomes. The response from VCH was threefold: 1) to redefine harm reduction services for youth, 2) to bridge gaps in service which would create continuity of care, and 3) to collaborate across services to create the best outcomes for youth.Not peer reviewe
Controlled drinking, harm reduction and their roles in the response to alcohol-related problems
No full textThis article first distinguishes three meanings of the term ‘harm reduction’ in the literature on alcohol problems: a European sense in which a change in drinking is not necessarily required; an American sense which includes the controlled drinking (CD) goal of treatment; and a government policy sense in which it is seen as an alternative to whole population alcohol policies. The article then goes on to consider the roles of the CD goal and the harm reduction philosophy in response to three groups of people with alcohol problems or increased risk of such problems: the non-treatment-seeking population of hazardous and harmful drinkers; the population of socio-economically disadvantaged street drinkers or others who are thought unlikely to make radical changes in drinking behaviour; and the regular population of treatment-seeking problem drinkers. It is concluded, inter alia, that the equation of harm reduction and the CD goal in the American sense of harm reduction is confusing and may have had a detrimental effect of the practice of CD treatment. The CD goal should imply an aim of harm-free drinking
If Supply-Oriented Drug Policy is Broken, Can Harm Reduction Help Fix It?—Melding Disciplines and Methods to Advance International Drug Control Policy
Get PDFCritics of the international drug control regime contend that supply-oriented policy interventions are not just ineffective, but they also produce unintended adverse consequences. Research suggests their claims have merit. Lasting local reductions in opium production are possible, albeit rare; but, unless global demand shrinks, production will shift elsewhere, with little or no effect on the aggregate supply of heroin and, potentially, at some expense to exiting and newly emerging suppliers. The net consequences of the international drug control regime and related national policies are as yet unknown. In this paper, we consider whether “harm reduction,” a subject of intense debate in the demand-oriented drug policy community, can provide a unifying foundation for supply-oriented drug policy, one capable of speaking more directly to policy goals. Despite substantial conceptual and technical challenges, we find that harm reduction can provide a basis for assessing the net consequences of supply-oriented drug policy, choosing more rigorously among policy options, and identifying new policy options. In addition, we outline a practical path forward for assessing harms and policy options.
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