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DEE - WCSAD - The Third Annual West Coast Symposium on Addictive Disorders
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By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.
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Objective 2: Enter overall meeting/conference objective.
By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.
By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.
By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.
Objective 3: Enter overall meeting/conference objective.
By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.
By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.
By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.
Identify client presentations likely to create legal and ethical challenges.
Identify dual relationship issues that can create legal and ethical challenges.
Identify issues with changes in the unit of treatment over the course of service that create legal and ethical challenges.
Discuss relevant case studies and apply course content to improve outcomes.
Demonstrate the effectiveness of the ARISE Intervention.
Discuss the connections between the impact of trauma and loss and the origin of addictions in a family

Discuss the value and types of suicide prevention programs for the workplace.

Identify verbal and non verbal warning signs of suicide.
Identify the do's and do not's of successful suicide interventions.
Identify three tools to better address and incorporate tobacco and nicotine dependence in treatment.
Differentiate between various emerging tobacco product.
Identify the FDA-approved medications for tobacco and nicotine dependence.
Discuss how the imagination is integral to recovery from an eating disorder.

Discuss how music and art create a safe place for exploring hopes, fears and dreams related to recovery.

Discuss how common alexithymia is for those who have an eating disorder and how music and art facilitate feeling states.

List the intervention tools that allow you to be clinically and culturally proactive.

Discuss ways to implement creative alternatives and approaches for care.

Explain the epidemiology of the Prescription Drug Epidemic.

Analyze information about use and abuse of mood altering drugs for treatment of pain, anxiety and insomnia.
Utilize principles of recovery to apply to the treatment of chronic pain.
Identify signs and symptoms of Alcohol Misuse and abuse of D.O.T testable drugs.
Identify the proper procedures for conducting and reporting a SAP evaluation.
Complete and pass a requalification exam.
Discuss why spirituality, as the animating life force in human beings, is critical to the understanding of both addiction and recovery.
Define ways in which spirituality can act independently from morality, and how it is manifested most strongly as a survival mechanism in the context of authentic suffering, including that of addiction.
Review recent brain imaging research that confirms positive and restorative changes in the brain associated with spiritual practice in the context of recovery.
Differentiate between abstinence and harm-reduction models of practice.
Appraise current pharmacologic interventions and their impact on treatment outcomes.
List at least 3 medications utilized in Addiction Practice which could hamper stable recovery.

Explain how pschiatric medications are ineffective with a mal noursihed eating disorder client.

Discuss how the psychiatrist and dietician collaborate and problem solve treatment barriers for the eating disorder client.

Discuss the imporatnce of treatment team communication between the psychiatrist and dietician.

Discuss normal brain functions and why they are part of healthy brain function.

Explain how ongoing alcohol and drug use alters specific systems in the brain producing altered perceptions, shifting values and persistent high-risk behaviors.

Differentiate between cognitive/didactic intervention techniques and experiential/psychodramatic techniques.
Explain the benefit of a holistic and inclusive approach to the family system.
List a number of resources and organizations available to practitioners to assist them in their work.

Identify 3 somatic signs of dissociation.

Identify 3 techniques to help contain trauma responses.

Identify the components of pendulation.

Discuss a variety of therapies that create new and synergistic healing for trauma survivors and addicts.

Review signs and symptoms that help identify trauma survivors with addiction or other compulsive behaviors.
Develop treatment programs and plans which meet the demands of the insurance company.

Explain the processes unique to managed care organizations (preauthorization, concurrent review, billing and appeals).

Explain how to determine wether an intervention is really necessary to get the loved one into treatment?

List the different types of Intervention Modalities.

Discuss how to manage addiction stereotypes and myths in the family. Address the role of the intake agent with pre-assessments, managing boundaries as well as follow-up and referrals.

Identify 3 ways women's bodies respond differently to chemcials than men's and why this is a concer.
Describe reasons women get addicted and how they differ than men.
Discuss differences in the female brain and how this impacts relapse and recovery.

Discuss the differences between the different types of drug testing as well as determine the appropriate clinical applications for each.

Discuss the motivating factors and clinical implications of inaccurate patient reporting of relevant events.

Discuss factors that determine the most clinically effective and appropriate drug testing frequency in different treatment settings.

Discuss skills and techniques to work with families with a member with disordered eating, compulsion, or addiction.
Identify counter-transference reactions and explore strategies to make use of them.
 Recognize the components of sexual health.
Recognize the overlap between sexual compulsivity and substance use.
Identify the basic components of the Treatment Model.
Summarize barriers for women seeking treatment.
Explain cultural differences between the treatment of men and women when seeking substance abuse treatment.
Discuss ways society can stop stigmas in chemical dependency and co-occurring issues regarding women.

List the behavioral symptoms and physical consequences of codependency.

Identify clinical strategies to address these issues effectively.

Describe the benefits of transitional recovery services for clients returning to the community from treatment such as case management, long term monitoring and personal recovery assistants.

Explain how transitional services are utilized by clients and families to support a long term treatment plan and support to achieve successful sobriety & recovery.

Describe reasons that many older adults with substance use problems do not get help.

Identify physical, social and emotional complications of substance abuse that can challenge treatment participation by older adults.

List ways to incorporate knowledge of aging and addiction into clinical work with older adults and their families.

Identify how simple documentation can contribute to treatment improvement.
Discuss how outcomes can be used to support the financial and societal benefits of treatment.
Explain why evidence-based treatment strategies will not necessarily benefit the field.
List six essential experiences in recovery.
Discuss various Therapy Models that utilize music and stories.

Discuss the complex recovery process from a duel diagnosis of eating disorders and chemical dependency.

List skills to work with counter transference and tranference when treating the active eating disorder and addicted client.

Explain how to offer empathic interventions to the active addict based on person disclosure.

Discuss how their own default habits and tendancies effect their approach to treating clients.
Discuss why their clients are behaving/responding to stress and addiction in a particular way and to how to relate to them "where they are at."
Discuss the progression of grace in an addict's journey from active disease through recovery.
Discuss the tools that can be utilized to enhance the process.
Discuss the history of the addiction treatment profession and the current challenges facing our field.
List what to look for in a mentor at their facility.
Discuss what employees are looking for, how to retain them, and build a strong staff.
Discuss information about self-empowering treatment and recovery approaches to clients.
Explain the importance of informing all clients and potential clients about their options in recovery.
Explain how to respond with confidence to objections about the process of self-empowering recovery.
Identify the main tenants of plasticity, arrested development, and the notion of resilient brain as it relates to the adolescent substance use.

List the benefits and drawback of using harm reduction strategies with adolescents versus an abstinence based model.

List procedures used in comprehensive searches that help balance risk management and protection of client rights.

Discuss and describe the principles of The Law of Sobriety.
Identify the characteristics of a purpose driven and meaningful life/recovery.
Define the methods of shifting negative addictive behavior to align with sobriety and positive healthy behavior.
Explain what constitutes emotional trauma and how victims of trauma may present in a clinical setting.

Discuss how emotional trauma can affect the brain's ability to make and maintain a euthymic mood.

Discuss how emotional trauma can affect the brain's ability to make and maintain a euthymic mood.

Identify signs and symptoms of Alcohol Misuse and abuse of D.O.T testable drugs.
Identify the proper procedures for conducting and reporting a SAP evaluation.
Complete and pass a requalification exam.
Discuss the proper mechanics of an intervention.
Describe how to build a team for the intervention.
Review the importance of aftercare and next steps.

Discuss how trauma and PTSD influence and complicate the course and treatment of eating disorders.

Discuss evidence based research about how traumatic experiences and subsequent PTSD are important risk factors in the development of eating disorders, particularly bulimia nervosa (BN), anorexia nervosa, binge-purge type, (AN-BP), binge eating disorder (BED) and EDNOS with purging.
Discuss how ED patients with a history of maltreatment, especially during childhood, are also more likely to have comorbid psychiatric illnesses, including affective, anxiety, substance use, disruptive, somatoform, dissociative and personality disorders, as well as extreme obesity.
Discuss how to develop a cultural sensitivity to clients by exploring social and cultural beliefs towards people of wealth, power and fame including the constructs of "wealthism" and "internalized wealthism".

Discuss issues with wealth, power and fame. Though these insights, the participants will explore how these issues play out in the psychotherapeutic relationship.

Discuss specific and concrete interventions to manage the transferential and counter transferential issues that arise with clients who are wealthy, powerful and famous.
Discuss Health Insurance and how it works.
Discuss how to develop a successful financial model by taking health insurance.
Discuss how to fight and recognize problems with health insurance.
Discuss how to reinvigorate your passion and purpose.
Explain how tools and support help overcome challenges.
Expalin how to give yourself a much needed break.
Discuss the most significant reasons why individuals continue to relapse after significant addiction treatment experiences.
Explain how Axis II (personality disorders) can complicate the recovery process.
Discuss co-occuring addictive disorders and how they can complicate the recovery process.
Discuss basic knowledge of brain anatomy and cerebral functioning.
Summarize aspects of basic neurotransmitters as they relate to addiction and the relationship of the brain's "reward centers".
Identify at what point in recovery neuropsychological and neurocognitive assessment will yield the greatest and most useful information.
Develop a basic understanding of four adolescent treatment settings.
Discuss the evidence that supports placement for four (4) specific treatment settings.
Identify adolescent behaviors and how they will benefit from each treatment setting.
Explain how to use psychodrama with eating disorder clients.
Discuss when to use psychodrama techniques with severely compromised eating disorder clients.
Explain how to work with trauma related issues without re-traumatizing the client with psychodrama techniques.
Discuss practical behavioral interventions for high conflict sober couples.
Expalin how to stay steady in the face of difficult sober couples in the therapy room.
Create a positive future for sober couples to achieve greater intimacy and trust step by step as a preventative measure against relapse.
Explain how diagnostic criteria for addiction have evolved over the past 40+ years, from the NCA criteria of 1972 to the DSM-V criteria of 2014.
Explain to their patients how brain regions other than the mesolimbic reward circuitry are central to the complex processes of addiction and how the externally observable manifestations of addiction have their roots in neurobiology.
List tools to begin to develop purposeful change in their lives (the lives of their clients).
Discuss the meaning and importance of having a life purpose.
List three possible benefits from this process.
Develop a new awareness regarding the diversity and value of drug testing in the treatment of addictions.
Discuss the use and limitations of new alcohol markers.
Explain the value of testing a repository matrix and the use of nail testing and its potential advantage over hair testing.
Explore the use of Cinema as an intervention and transformative theraputic agent.
Discuss how to utilize film in both long and short form in thier own practice.
Discuss what tools to use in thier own practice and aught how to make and edit film clips for thier own use.
Discuss the founding tenants of NeuroImaginal practice.
Explain how to be guided on their own healing journey - experiencing a NeuroImaginal practice.
Discuss a NeuroImaginal tool they can share with clients.
Describe the benefits of immersing family members in a parallel treatment approach with the patient.
Identify key components to a successful residential family program.
Develop ideas for family inventory-taking, family networking, and resource connection as part of family continuing care.
Identify an individual with a drug problem.
Explain all areas of detoxing people from drugs.
Discuss and educate the participants on new psychological approaches to drug dependency.
Discuss case studies emphasizing resistance and resilience, including highlighting differences and similarities between eating disorder and traditional chemical dependency interventions.
Explain how to be empathic with the clients struggle while exercising well-honed skills to deal with the distorted thinking and denial that keeps the client in the chaos of the food.
Discuss how, and when to intervene with the food-addicted client.
Discuss ethical conduct in relation to interventions.
Describe how to build and sustain an intervention practice.
Identify their scope of practice.
Discuss what both men did in order to achieve recovery from an eating disorder.
Discuss differnces and similarities between males and females who have eating disorders.
Explain how societal pressures impact makes who have eating disorders.
Discuss the evolution of recovery-oriented thought from the early days of the 12-step movement to the present.
Discuss a comprehensive knowledge of how federal funding changes are shifting the emphasis from treatment to recovery support services.
Articulate key elements of and the research underpinnings for a recovery-oriented system of care.
Explain to their patients how brain regions other than the mesolimbic reward circuitry are central to the complex processes of addiction and how the externally observable manifestations of addiction have their roots in neurobiology.
Describe to their patients the downward emotional spiral in addiction, whereby tolerance develops to the generation of positive emotions deriving from acute drug use, but tolerance does not develop to the generation of negative emotions deriving from chronic drug use.
Explore the 2011 Definition of Addiction of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and help attendees discriminate between descriptions and definitions that focus on substances and behaviors that provide reward or relief, versus the underlying biology which leads to altered the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors seen in persons with addiction
Discuss the history of Recovery Coaching, and the differences between Recovery Coaching, therapy, sponsorship.
Discuss when Recovery Coaching may be appropriate for a client.
Discuss basic mechanisms of neurogenesis and their relationship to improving recovery.
Apply this information to clinical practice to enhance neurogenesis.
Identify the nine components of resilience and their relationship to recovery.
Discuss retrospective cost-effectiveness data of treating alcohol and opioid dependent patients with Vivitrol.
Discuss how programs have overcome barriers to treatment and practically implemented a Vivitrol treatment program in a range of real life clinical settings.
Explain how public treatment and justice systems have implemented medication-assisted recovery.
Define purpose and meaning as a major phase of recovery.
List the traps inhibiting discovery and progress (inertia, other addictions, lack of agency and autonomy, fear of failure
Enumerate past successes and failures and find new direction in their own lives.
List the signs of abuse. Physical, emotional, relational, developmental.
Create a treatment plan geared toward men's issues relating to being abused as a child and the resulting behaviors created by that experience.
Discuss the emotional impact of abuse.
Identify the defense mechanism of spiritual bypass and how it might be helpful or harmful to individuals in recovery. Integrating this knowledge provides the ability to discern between what looks and sounds like recovery, and what is actually a solid practice that enables a foundation for long-term sobriety.
Discuss components of recovery that inadvertently foster spiritual bypass. With dominant culture trending towards the quick fix, and the addict's predisposition to grandiosity, individuals can expect immunity from vulnerability and perpetual "happy, joyous and free" feelings.
Apply the presenter's research results, comprehensive literature review and anecdotal evidence in a manner that effectively bridges the gap between spiritual and psychological health and well-being in recovery.
Discuss clinical features that are common to both ED and SUD that can be addressed in an integrated treatment approach.
Describe the spirit, theoretical rationale and principles of Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Describe the basic skills used in the implementation of MI.
Identify and present several communication techniques to reach resistant clients.
Identify and present how we can help eliminate self defeating behaviors.
Discuss 'confrontation' techniques that build trusting relationship with resistant clients in treatment.
Summarize the demographics of trauma across the life span.
Discuss changes in brain structure and physical health as a result of trauma.
Discuss the relationship between trauma and the development of substance use disorders.
Discuss the place of gratitude in self-love.
List three steps of the craft: -- compassion for others -- radical empathy. seeing through anothers eyes which is seminal to twelve step fellowships. -- living compassion which is seeing through the eyes of compassion.
Discuss how compassion is a healing modality fully consistent with effective ways of recovering from addiction.
Explain the stigma that women with mental illness and addiction have faced in society and how that has impacted access to and design of treatment systems.
Describe the constellation of biopsychosocial issues surrounding and contributing to addiction and mental health problems.
Discuss the principles of gender specific treatment.
Discuss practical information on how programs have overcome barriers to treatment and practically implemented a Vivitrol treatment program in a range of real life clinical settings.
Discuss the safety and efficacy of treating opioid-dependent patients with Vivitrol, and the details regarding its new indication, recently approved by the FDA.
Discuss practical information from the literature on opioid detoxification treatment strategies.
Discuss the needs of single fathers or caregivers in a substance abuse recovery program and how to create balance between recovery and effective parenting.
Discuss the Nurturing Father curriculum, inter generational learning and positive parenting techniques.
Identify low or no cost assessment tools to guage success in your program.
List three specific symptoms of sexual addiction.
Name three sources of online addictive sexual behavior problems.
List three resources toward further client and professional sexual addiction treatment information.
Explore what's behind the universal human desire for pleasure, the need to "get high."
Discuss how to Re-awaken their diagnostic, clinical imagination through the exploration of 12 clinical descriptors or "profiles" of non-using, using, misuse, disordered use, and addiction.
Discuss how to Re-invigorate their treatment approaches through the application of novel and useful psychoanalytic concepts that deepen recovery treatment, and thus prevent relapse.
Explain how a client-centered recovery-oriented approach can be applied in community treatment settings.
Discuss Jung's concept of Midlife change and growth and see how working with this model will enable others to change.

Describe how to implement effective point of care drug testing in their clinical setting.

Identify the benefits of group psychotherapy and group supervision for clinicians who work with addiction and trauma.
Identify challenges programs face in meeting women's treatment needs Learn at least three approaches and practices Spectrum engages in to ensure women's treatment is evidence based and effective.
Develop clinical proficiencies in the application of concepts that are useful during four stages of recovery treatment.
Review the basic concepts of sex and love addiction.
Review characteristics particular to FSLAs.
Identify treatment considerations for this particular population.
Objective 4: Enter overall meeting/conference objective.
By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.
By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.
By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.
Please answer the following:
Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?
Was the educational content scientifically sound?
If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?
Was the mode of education effective to learning?
If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.
Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?
If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please detail the situation below (e.g. session title, speaker name):
Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational room (other areas do not matter) while you attended this educational activity?
If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please explain in detail (e.g. who, when, where):
How much did you learn as a result of this education program?
What specifically did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?

What patient/client problems or patient/client challenges do you feel you are not able to address appropriately or to your satisfaction?
What problems are your patients/clients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?

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