ERIC Number: EJ1301469
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 14
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Work Hard, Party Hard: Harm Reduction in a Post-Secondary Setting
Ford, Victoria; Wooster, Alyssa; Bartram, Mary
Canadian Journal of Higher Education, v51 n1 p1-14 2021
In the context of the increasing focus on harms, psychological safety, and mental health in post-secondary settings, this qualitative study explores the challenges and opportunities for harm reduction through focus groups with student leaders, service providers, and administrators in one large Canadian university. Key themes explored by participants include a pervasive work hard, party culture, clashes regarding how to define and operationalize harm reduction, broad approaches to harm reduction in tension with the risk of becoming a band-aid solution, and knowledge transfer and privilege in an academic context. These findings suggest possible avenues for harm reduction that could be implemented as part of the new post-secondary standard, as well as in society as a whole.
Descriptors: College Students, Social Behavior, Mental Health, Foreign Countries, Drinking, Drug Use, Sexuality, School Culture, Intervention
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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