Presenter
Presentation Title(s)
Date(s)
CE
Workshop Description
Susan Blank,
MD
The Perfect Storm: Chronic Pain,
Prescription Drugs, and Addiction
6/11/2015
2.0
Mark Sanders,
LCSW, CADC
The Future of Addiction Treatment
in America
6/11/2015
1.0
This workshop will outline contextual changes in key areas that
will influence the future of addictions treatment, including: The
New Healthcare Initiative; New Partnerships; New Funding
Streams; The Growth of Recovery Mutual Aid Groups; The Need
for Recovery Industries; Recovery Schools; New Recovery
Research; The Use of Technology in Recovery; and Substance
Use Trends and the Economy. Emphasis will be placed on
strategies for preparing for the future.
Jaketra Bryant,
LPC
Helping Substance Abuse Clients
Re-establish Healthy
Relationships
6/11/2015
3.0
Jeremiah Hopes,
LPC, CAADC
From the Street Corner to the
Medicine Cabinet: Understanding
the Changing Face of Substance
Abuse and Pharmacology
6/11/2015
3.0
Although, we often discourage our clients with having
relationships while in recovery it often happens. Having
relationships of all levels is a part of life, (i.e. work, friendships,
partnership and parental) relationships cannot always be avoided.
The workshop will allow clinicians to learn strategies to assist
their clients with re-establishing healthy relationships while in
recovery. The workshop will focus on barriers, boundaries and
balance as a necessity with re-establishing and maintaining a
healthy relationship after the drugs/alcohol. Clinicians will be
challenged with a full discussion of the stigma with relationships
while in recovery. We will touch on common issues with clients
in recovery with relationships. This workshop mixes both didactic
and experiential learning styles.
Drugs are an enigma. Some are illegal and others are legal, they
can destroy lives or assist in treatment. From the street corner
dealer to the pharmaceutical sales person, drugs inundate our
society. As treatment providers, we must understand the
emerging trends so that we can provide the most effective
Pamela Morgan,
MBA, CADC
Addiction to Crime: Games
Criminals Play
6/11/2015
3.0
Cathy Robinson
Pickett, CE CEM
Domestic Violence: Much More
than Spousal Abuse
6/11/2015
3.0
Laci Rankhorn,
ICADC, ICCJP
Get Your Group In Gear!
6/11/2015
3.0
treatment. The purpose of this presentation will be to provide
well-documented and updated facts about both legal and illicit
drugs. We will also review the pharmacology of commonly
abused legal and illicit drugs with particular focus on newer
synthetic drugs. The program will cover the emerging trends in
substance abuse and treatment.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide professionals with
insight to assist clients in addressing addiction to criminal
behavior. Professionals will be equipped to assist clients in
identifying the cycle of addiction, high risk behaviors, and
triggers as related to criminal activity and addiction. Informative
discussion will enhance the professionals' ability to reduce the
recidivism rate among repeated offenders as well as first time
offenders. Participants will be enlightened regarding games
criminals play and effective methods of addressing underlying
issues. This training is applicable to diverse cultural environments
as it explores the common combination of criminal activity and
substance abuse.
This is an interactive dynamic lecture presentation by Cathy
Robinson Pickett. As a Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
survivor, mother and internationally recognized activist Cathy
takes her audience through a journey from despair to
triumph…while examining the big picture of spousal abuse,
sibling abuse, elder abuse and dating abuse.
"Get Your Group In Gear!" is a program designed for new and
experienced group leaders that will reinforce confidence and
build on existing facilitation skills. Learn to cultivate a positive
change atmosphere, with relatable examples and take-home, usenow activities. Four Stages of group facilitation will be discussed:
Engaging, Informing, Involving and Planning for future
application, (based on Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory,
1984). Workshop participants will receive ideas to promote client
Tim Robinson,
LPC
Geneva Gray,
Ph.D, LPC
How to Perform a Family
Intervention
6/11/2015
3.0
Susanah Stone,
LCSW,
ICAADC,
ICCDP-D
The Elements of Treatment
Specific to Woman with CoOccurring Addictive and Mental
Health Disorders
6/11/2015
3.0
Sandra TaylorAnderson, Ph.D.,
LPC, GCADCIII
Breaking Bad: Alcohol and Drug
Use Among Adolescents &
Young Adults
6/11/15
3.0
Austin W.
Houghtaling,
Ph.D., MFT
Blind Spots In and Around
Recovery.
6/11/2015
3.0
engagement, sample methods of delivering information to
therapeutic groups, furthering participation ideas and
summarizing strategies.
This workshop will compare and contrast three family
intervention models. The theory and interventions for each will be
discussed. Participants will learn the ways to apply them.
Indicators for choosing a method will be provided based on the
situational factors of the individual and the family. This workshop
will examine the tenets and interventions from three models: the
Johnson (1998) model, the Community Reinforcement Approach
and Family Training (CRAFT) model by Myers & Wolfe (2004)
and the Arise model (Landau & Garrett, 2006).
The course is designed to provide an in depth understanding of
the specific needs of women and why understanding those needs
are vital to providing effective treatment to women with cooccurring disorders. The purpose of the workshop is to provide
clinicians with a process and framework for conceptualizing,
coordinating and implementing treatment specific to adult women
with co-occurring disorders which helps create realistic service
expectations.
This workshop will look at the needs of Adolescents Young
Adults in treatment and how to adjust our expectations to meet
their unique needs. We will also explore what an effective
treatment program for Adolescents and Young Adults looks like.
The effects that substance abuse has on personality development,
on social learning, on cognitive development, on the development
of coping skills and on self-esteem will be examined.
Everyone has blind spots. We cannot see our blind spots outside
of relationships—human and spiritual. Attachment theory can
help clinicians understand and illuminate clients’ blind spots, and
the purposes they serve. This presentation will address blind spots
Kelly Wedell,
Ed.S., LPC
A Brain Disease with a Spiritual
Solution – Does the Current
Research Support This?
6/11/2015
3.0
Neil Campbell
The Anonymous People and Panel
6/11/2015
2.0
as a central clinical issue, impacting perceptions of safety, growth
potential, and relational tension. Accessing the gifts of sight and
personal awareness requires honesty, vulnerability, curiosity, and
relationships. The healing associated with illuminated blind spots
often accompanies and follows pain, but is real and is worth the
cost.
12 Step programs have known since the beginning that addiction
is a physical and mental disease that requires a spiritual solution.
In a world of brain science, stringent research criteria, and the
medical community validating addiction as a physiological
process how does a spiritual solution match up to a thrust for
scientific validation? In this presentation we will explore the
latest scientific research that lends efficacy to a spiritual solution.
We will examine each spiritual principle in light of the most
current research then discuss how the science and principle can be
integrated to provide services that support the whole person.
THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE is a feature documentary film
about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery
from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Deeply entrenched
social stigma and discrimination have kept recovery voices silent
and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence
has been filled by sensational mass media depictions of people in
active addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public
fascination with the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable
and treatable health condition. Just like women with breast
cancer, or people with HIV/AIDS, courageous addiction recovery
advocates are starting to come out of the shadows to tell their true
stories. The moving story of The Anonymous People is told
through the faces and voices of the leaders, volunteers, corporate
executives, and celebrities who are laying it all on the line to save
the lives of others just like them. Followed by a Panel Discussion.
Jefferson Adams,
JD, CADC II
Court Room Ethics
6/12/2015
6.0
John Dyben,
MA, MS, CAP,
CMHP
Ethically Addressing Spirituality
in Addiction Counseling
6/12/2015
6.0
Karin Malkowski
Stende, MS
Conflict
Resolution
Peacemaking Circles: Enhancing
the Recovery Experience
6/12/2015
6.0
Pamela Morgan,
MBA, CADC
Ethics and Boundaries
6/12/2015
6.0
As counselors, court room appearances are inevitable. As such,
we are presented with three major obstacles: protecting our client,
upholding the law, and handling ourselves in an ethical and
professional manner. Come be part of an innovative, informative,
and interactive training that will prepare you for such an event.
What does spirituality have to do with wellness, recovery or
being “whole” and what is spirituality anyway? Participants will
learn the practical interconnectedness of these concepts and gain
new insights and therapeutic techniques to guide patients in their
recovery. What often ignites real recovery is the discovery of
one’s own potential for healthy spirituality. How does one
practice and share spirituality in an ethical manner? Learn the
paradigm of addiction, cultural influences, the concept of peace
and happiness, and the clinical significance of a Spiritual
Treatment Plan. Explore how clinical practice can catalyze
spiritual fitness that includes connection, mindful-awareness and
mindful-celebration of the gift of life while maintaining our
ethical standards.
Applying ancient principles to modern experiences, peacemaking
circles and other restorative processes are gaining new value in
communities across the country. Learn a new system for building
community in a way that creates positive, lasting change. Take
the first steps in designing a peacemaking circle program and
begin to realize the benefits of this powerful form of
communication. Participants in this workshop will discover the
life-enriching experience of the circle process, not through lecture
and literature, but by creating, developing, and participating in a
full peace circle.
The purpose of this training is to stress the importance of
adhering to ethical standards and some of the boundary
Cathy Robinson
Pickett, CE CEM
Quit Smoking…Dip, Chew,
Vaping…Now! How to Assist Your
Clients
6/12/2015
6.0
Mark Sanders,
LCSW, CADC
Strategies for Engaging the Most
Difficult-to-Reach Clients
6/12/2015
6.0
Funda Yilmaz,
LPC
Core Concepts in the Treatment of
Traumatized Clients
6/12/2015
6.0
challenges of today's therapeutic environment: Recovering
professionals working with recovering clients, peer recovery
coaching, as well as social networking. Participants will receive
insight to assist in building and maintaining healthy worker/client
relationships as well as co-worker/co-worker relationships'.
This is a six hour interactive training. It is intended to help staff
learn the basic principles and skills needed to facilitate nicotine
cessation programs. Nicotine use has been characterized as the
most deadly epidemic of modern times (Stratton et al., 2001). It is
the biggest cause of mortality and morbidity in US. This training
includes motivational interviewing skills, major health risk of
tobacco use, a review of basic pharmacology products and uses
and alternative stress management techniques. We will discuss
strategies and plan mapping to help facilitate not only nicotine
cessation but strategies to maintain a successful long term quit.
Participants will practice techniques and share best practices. All
attendees will receive training materials that they will be able to
keep, share and reproduce for their clients or employees.
Participants will leave this workshop with tools that will enable
them to increase programmatic retention, decrease premature
termination, and facilitate change more effectively with difficultto-reach clients with substance use disorders. A partial list of
topics includes: The Use of Naturally Therapeutic Qualities to
Engage Difficult-to-reach Clients in Treatment; 6 Strategies for
Engaging Clients in the First Five Minutes of Contact; How to
Turn a Mandated Client into a Voluntary Client; 15 Strategies for
Engaging Clients with Substance Use Disorders in Counseling;
Strategies to Ensure that Countertransference Does Not Impact
Client Engagement; and much more!
This presentation is designed to strengthen clinical knowledge
and clinical reasoning skills while encouraging the integration of
cultural, developmental, strength-based, and systems perspectives
R. Denice Colson,
Ph.D., MS
Becoming a “Trauma Informed”
Addictions Counselor
6/12/2015
3.0
Laura Minch,
Psy.D.
Jenifer Harcourt,
LPC
Embracing and Enlisting Your
Army: Treating Eating Disorders
and Other Addictions
6/12/2015
3.0
Angela Montfort,
LPC, NCC, CPCS
Addressing Women’s Body Image
Concerns in Relation to Substance
Use Disorder
6/12/2015
3.0
Jordan Child, MS
Kitrina Bush
Creating Compassion & Cohesion:
A training on Couples Counseling
6/12/2015
3.0
in work with trauma-exposed youth and families. It’s case-based,
and draws on problem-based learning (PBL) principles to provide
learners with a foundational understanding of “core” traumarelated concepts. The purpose of this experiential and didactic
training is to teach the audience The Core Concepts, developed
by the NCTSN in the Think Trauma toolkit to provide a rationale
for trauma-informed assessment and intervention.
We will present a source-focused, spiritually-integrated model
for trauma recovery which provides counselors with a structured
pathway for treating survivors. Using audience participation, we
will demonstrate the step-by-step process of how trauma develops
in the identity of an addiction impacted family including how
addiction is trauma for the substance user.
This workshop will discuss complex clients presenting with
eating disorders and other addictions while providing a
framework for integrating evidence based treatment approaches
in therapy. The workshop will provide an opportunity for
attendees to practice assessing clients and formulating appropriate
interventions using a multidisciplinary team and community
supports. The purpose of the current workshop is to educate
clinicians about the underlying contributors to eating disordered
and addictive behaviors and how to implement clinically
appropriate treatment interventions.
This program discusses approaches to addressing body image
issues in women with substance use disorders. It provides
research-based rationale for attending to body image and eating
concerns concurrently with treatment of substance use disorders.
Additionally, this program provides practical recommendations
for interventions.
Do you ever feel lost in the process of counseling couples? Are
Russell Floyd,
Ed.D.
Using Chess as a Counseling
Approach for Recovery from
Addiction
6/12/2015
3.0
Tieshekia Fowlks,
MS Ed., LPC
The Consumer’s Perception to
Barriers in Recovery
6/12/2015
3.0
you unsure of how to proceed after the first few sessions? This
training is designed to assist with the main presenting issues
associated with couples counseling: unhealthy communication
dynamics and disharmony concerning intimacy. Moreover, the
workshop includes experiential activities aimed at developing the
counselor’s awareness of their own views and opinions towards
these topics and practicing implementing these activities in
session with couples.
The correlation of chess and counseling is Dr. Floyd's
professional passion and his motivation to share this counseling
approach with others. Dr. Floyd considers this workshop as an
Erickson wisdom stage of development task. The purpose of this
workshop is to teach counselors and other addiction professionals
how to use chess in the treatment process from intake to
discharge in individual, family and group counseling and the
institutional milieu.
Treatment providers have an idea of barriers to recovery, but the
consumer is able to identify areas of difficulties, that we often
times minimize. It is these barriers that often times contribute to
relapse. This discussion will highlight hidden barriers, a CBT
approach to reducing risk behavior, and skillfully facing daily
challenges, while maintaining their sobriety. This workshop
reminds providers to return to a foundational concept in
counseling, Meet the client where they are. Every client does not
and will not respond to treatment the same, so the more specific
we make their treatment, the better chances they have for a
healthy recovery.