Intended Audience
The psychology department welcomes Dr. CJ Seitz-Brown as the fourth speaker in its 2019-2020 lecture series: Psychology of the Opioid Crisis.
"Meeting people where they're at: Harm reduction and peer-led interventions for opioid use disorder in Maryland and Washington, D.C."
Dr. Seitz-Brown will discuss the concept of harm reduction and its application to interventions for problems associated with opioid use. The lecture will include examples from his volunteer work with a syringe exchange program in Washington, D.C., as well as a focus on the impact of stigmatizing language surrounding substance use. Similarly, he will highlight the increasing role that peers with lived experience play in responding to substance use concerns by sharing ongoing research on peer-led treatment approaches.
CJ Seitz-Brown is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining the faculty at UMD, he served as a postdoctoral psychology fellow at the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle. His role there included providing individual and group therapy as part of an opioid treatment program that offered medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone, and injectable extended-release buprenorphine.
His research, part of the The Global Mental Health and Addiction Program at the University of Maryland (GMAP), focuses on developing and evaluating interventions to address substance use, mental health concerns, and co-occurring chronic health problems in the United States as well as internationally. CJ supervises graduate students’ clinical work in the UMD Psychology Clinic and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses.
Dr. Seitz-Brown earned his doctorate and a master’s in clinical psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned a BA in psychology and linguistics at Swarthmore College.
Free and open to the public.
This event may be used to satisfy the Lecture Reflection Requirement in PSYC204/206, PSYC303, PSYC490 and PSYC493/494.