Topics
- Harm reduction
- Assessment
- Preparation
- Overview of psychedelic medicines
- History of psychedelic-assisted therapy
- Cultural safety and humility
- Set and setting
- Intention setting
Learning Outcomes
- Apply a harm reduction approach to the assessment of a client’s preparedness and eligibility for psychedelic-assisted therapy.
- Justify the importance of set and setting within the arc of psychedelic-assisted therapy.
- Apply a harm reduction approach to preparation
- Explain the importance of adopting a trauma- and violence-informed care approach to psychedelic-assisted therapy.
- Describe key frameworks that can be used to help clients set an intention for their psychedelic journey.
- Explain the need to promote cultural safety and humility.
- Outline key events in the history of psychedelic-assisted therapy.
- List the principal medicines used for psychedelic-assisted therapy, their historical usage, and a brief overview of the medicine’s subjective effects.