Apply clinical skills from a broad range of professional core functions including assessment, therapeutic approaches
Cite advances in the addiction field resulting from research and practice innovations
Discuss key issues such as cultural diversity, gender issues, sexual orientation and age-specific differences in relation to clinician/client interaction
Understand how to be more effective in their practices, milieus and centers.
Implement creative alternatives and approaches for care.
Participants will be able to describe and discuss the regulatory requirements for the follow-up evaluation, the follow-up report and the development of the follow-up testing plan.
Participants will be able to describe when and how the SAP goes about conducting the follow-up evaluation, developing the follow-up testing plan and writing/transmitting the follow-up report.
Differentiate where they significantly differ in the areas of substance abuse prevention and treatment as well as harm reduction efforts
Discuss the interesting developments the Middle and Far East Faculty
Participants will identify how to balance addiction as a brain disease with a biopsychosocial perspective in clinical care.
Participants will be able to distinguish the differences between evidence-based and outcomes-based strategies.
Discuss how psychiatric medications are ineffective with a mal-nourished eating disorder client.
Explain how the psychiatrist and dietician collaborate and problem solve treatment barriers for the eating disorder client.
Discuss the importance of treatment team communication between the psychiatrist and dietician.
Explain how Axis II (personality disorders) can complicate the recovery process.
Review co-occuring addictive disorders and how they can complicate the recovery process.
Integrate inspiration with all models of therapy
Engage in experiential education to nurture creativity and reduce resistance
Describe the normal pain pathway in the brain and the spinal cord.
List at least 3 different types of chronic pain and possible strategies for treatment
Discuss at least 2 non-pharmacological options in the management of chronic pain
Discuss the processes and programs available to physicians for the assessment, treatment, and monitoring of potentially impairing addictive disorders.
Discuss other health-related disorders which can complicate the assessment and monitoring of addictive problems.
Explain the role of the state licensing board and state physician health program in ensuring that physicians with addictive disorders are adequately monitored and safe to practice medicine.
Discuss principles of screening patients for substance use problems before prescribing opioids.
Explain the importance of monitoring the patient while they are taking opioids.
Describe how to avoid problems of abuse and dependence while prescribing opiates.
Discuss the prevalence and three etiological factors of self-injurious behaviors in adolescents with eating disorders.
List the three key risk factors and assessment skills in treating self-injurious behaviors in eating disorders.
Utilize four treatment strategies based on cutting-edge research and professional experience with this special population.
Discuss the latest, most exciting research supporting mind body medicine and the benefits of meditation for themeselves and their clients.prevalence and three etiological factors of self-injurious behaviors in adolescents with eating disorders.
List three meditation techniques with tips on how to introduce these to their clients.
List some clinically proven stress relief protocals that can be easily introduced in a clinical setting.
List three models of intervention and describe two salient features of each of the three
Explain the purpose of pre-intervention, intervention, post-intervention periods and how the treatment professional can work with an interventionist to enhance engagement in treatment and improve outcomes
Communicate to a family what elements must be in place to get improved five-year survival rates post intervention directed treatment.
Review the management of opioid dependence during pregnancy as well as review recent research gleaned from the MOTHERS study.
Review the effects of maternal opioid dependence on the neonate, signs, symptoms, and management of neonatal withdrawal, and contributing factors.
Discuss parenting issues for women with opioid and other drug dependence.
Explain how integrated assessment and clinical intervention approaches decrease medical complications, lengths of stay, and improve overall treatment outcomes for hospitalized addiction patients.
Discuss how creative training approaches and work-based learning exchanges between a general hospital and an addiction provider can improve nursing attitudes about addicted patients
Discuss how to make addiction providers an important collaborative partner with hospital systems and accountable care organizations
What is Health Insurance and How does it work, inlcluding: Basics of Health Insurance & History regarding the industry; How can facilities and providers utilize health insurance; How to deal with managed care companies; How to evaluate policies in light of substance abuse and mental health services; and Alternatives form of insurance.
How to develop a successful financial model by taking health insurance: Basics of setting up and taking insurance as a facility or provider and what to expect; How to explain patients' rights and benefits; What problems providers experience when billing insurance for services and how to combat these issues; Long term financial impact and short term benefits of working with insurance; How to fight and recognize problems with health insurance; and Changes in Health Insurance and Patient Advocacy
Explain how to identify sexual addiction or other sexual behaviors that are dangerous to self or others.
Explain the basics of treating sexual addiction.
Explain how to inform clinical treatment for treating sexual addiction.
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 interventions to manage the transferential and counter transferential issues that arise with clients who are wealthy, powerful and famous.
Discuss case studies emphasizing resistance and resilience, including highlighting differences and similarities between eating disorder and traditional chemical dependency interventions.
Discuss ways 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 the use of Cinema as an intervention and transformative theraputic agent.
Explain how to utilize film in both long and short form in thier own practice.
Give an example of tools to use in practice.
Summarize the demographics of trauma across the life span.
Analyze changes in brain structure and physical health as a result of trauma.
Discuss the relationship between trauma and the development of substance use disorders
Summarize the basics of social media.
Discuss how to strategize a social media campaign. Set goals and ways to track the outcomes.
Discuss where to start, how to create a manageable plan, and how to reach specific target markets.
Discuss the prevalence and impact of mood disorders, particularly major depressive disorder, among substance abusers, and will be able to recognize different attachment styles in adults
Discuss the key role of spirituality and religiosity in the field of addiction understanding the distinction between these two constructs
Discuss the relationship between attachment styles, spirituality and religiosity, and major depressive disorder among substance abusers discovered through several empirically-based research studies examining these factors in a residenti
Explain the definition of a chronic relapse and correctly identify them in clinical situations.
Name specific protocols for treating a chronic relapser.
Identify when to refer a chronic relapser to specialty treatment.
Identify how eating disorder behaviors are attempts at self-regulation from a trauma stress response
Intervene effectively to prevent clients from becoming overwhelmed as they engage in treatment.
Utilize experiential exercises to lower arousal for clients and decrease reliance on eating disorder behaviors to alleviate distress.
Identify the role of SPECT imaging in treating the most difficult cases.
Identify 8 ways to stop "Emotional Vulnerability" and how to apply the DBT skills to stop these behaviors using brain healthy treatment examples to help their clients restructure their live to prevent this.
Identify from a given list the ways to apply "Distress Tolerance" skills to any given situation, raising their clients "tolerance threshold" understanding the competing role of the Pre-Frontal Cortex and Limbic System.
Explain how alcoholism and other drug addictions are family diseases
Cite examples of different harmful outcomes that are often found in families and children with addiction
Discuss different ways as a clinician to facilitate healing
Name one clinician characteristic associated with improved outcomes in substance abuse treatment
State the difference between empathy and sympathy
Name one research study in which clinician empathy was used as a hiring criteria
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).
Discuss the basic skills used in the implementation of MI.
Discuss the rationale behind medication assisted treatment delivery via mobile medication units and supportive housing services.
Discuss changes in addictions severity and recovery; quality of life, including health status; crisis care; employment, housing status, HIV care and reasons for treatment discharge and drop-outs
Summarize assessment of return to work issues
List issues that impact recommendations for return to work
Review ways neuropsychological testing can be used to explore cognitive functioning
Explain how young adults are affected by addiction.
Examine how parents commonly react to their adult children's drug and alcohol problems.
Review methods and resources available to support, empower and educate families.
Discuss how intimate partner violence is a co-occurrent condition with substance use disorders.
Review methods for screening for IPV
Summarize approaches and program that have integraed screening and intervention to reduce violence.
Discuss the specific developmental characteristics that define emerging adulthood, including social, psychological and neurobiologic factors.
Discuss the prevalence of substance use disorders in emerging adulthood and the challenges to engaging this group in treatment.
Summarize two different models for treating emerging adults with substance use disorders and will be able to apply the basic principles used by these models to better engage emerging adults in substance abuse treatment and recovery
Discuss skills and techniques to deepen the work with families with a member with disordered eating, compulsion, or addiction
Identify counter-transference reactions and explore strategies to make use of them rather than be burdened or burned out
Articulate a personal version of the grounded stance upon which one can sustainably do this work, find meaning and connect to the sacred or divine aspects of a contemplative practice
Evaluate clinical implications of recent research on buprenorphine and buprenorphine-naloxone in the treatment of opioid dependence.
Identify what clients are best suited for buprenorphine and buprenorphine-naloxone detoxification and maintenance and how to support clients in succeeding in these treatment settings.
List resources that will allow them to continue updating their knowledge base and clinical expertise in this area.
Discuss the unique properties of each medication and its respective place in the treatment of opioid dependence.
Explain the appropriate use of each medication in the clinical setting for treatment of opioid dependence.
Review data on use of and clinically appropriate considerations in medication selection
Discuss the unique challenges associated with parenting an emerging adult with substance use disorder and/or dual diagnosis, and will learn models for supporting struggling parents and helping them be effective in encouraging their ch
Explain how different models of parental interventions can influence treatment engagement and retention among dependent emerging adults with substance use disorder and dual diagnosis.
Explain the impact of financial dependency and the loss of family trust on early recovery among emerging adults with substance use disorder. Participants will be introduced to a contingency contracting method designed to increase engagement and improve family relationships
Discuss if drugs and/or alcohol use has been a solution, not the core problem.
Name a compelling model that generates an appreciation for why people do what they do. What needs are being met by using.
Cite newest statistics as to what are some of the challenges facing society and how we deal with them
Discuss 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.
Discuss patient-treatment matching issues as they relate to drug-free and medication-assisted treatment options for opioid dependency
Discuss evidence-based approaches to determining appropriate candidates for methadone and/or buprenorphine for agonist therapies
Explain antagonist therapy, including benefits and risks
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
Describe the various ways in which eating disorders overlap with addictive disorders.
Identify four substances that may be abused by patients with eating disorders.
Explain how certain foods can be considered addictive.
Describe the fundamentals of the 'spirit' of engagement with difficult clients.
List ways of integrating skills and strategies into evidence based practice treatment approaches.
Practice on "challenging" clients through role playing and discussion.
Describe the nature of sleep and the individual variability of sleep patterns in the setting of chemical dependency.
Discuss newer and more effective pharmacologic and behavioral treatments of insomnia in the setting of recovery from chemical dependency.
List the most commonly prescribed medications
Demonstrate a basic general knowledge of EMDR and BSP
Describe how EMDR and BSP can be used as an adjunct therapy in an inpatient addiction treatment program.
Discuss the range of issues which can be addressed with EMDR and BSP in an inpatient addiction population
Identify basic financial literacy information.
Discuss the association of financial literacy with the clinical practice of gambling disorders.
Discuss implementation strategies for treatment planning.
Identify financial literacy tools and resources.
Discuss the promises and pitfalls of exposing clients to our local communities as volunteers, students and workers while actively in a treatment setting.
Explain the differences and outcomes of an isolated model and an open model of treatment when dealing with relapsing addicts.
Discuss the benefits of integrating your model into a community that at one time may have had a "NIMBY" attitude, and becoming a valuable asset in your local community.
Discuss the value of partnering with other local recovery and treatment entities to build collaboration and consensus within the greater community.
Discuss the epidemiology, natural history and the major risk factors in the acquisition of HCV infection, and their implication in diagnosis.
Explain interferon-based therapy, response rate, its major adverse effects and their management, including role of rapid virologic response to guiding treatment decisions.
Discuss new therapies (e.g., protease inhibitors) and their likely effects on patient selection and treatment algorithms.
Discuss the usage of integrated care models for evaluation and interferon-based treatment of HCV.
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 complex recovery process from a duel diagnosis of eating disorders and chemical dependency.
Explain the skills needed to work with counter transference and tranference when treating the active eating disorder and addicted client.
Discuss how to offer empathic interventions to the active addict based on person disclosure.
Discuss the effectf of multiple deployments on the child's developmental process.
Explain the inter-relationship of substance abuse and trauma in families.
Describe a system of treatment that addresses all parties within the family structure.
Describe the sources of data available that prove the value of twelve step participation during and following treatment
List three activities that can become part of the daily activities during or after treatment that reinforce a healthy recovery enhancement plan and support efforts directed at recovery
Describe to a client/patient how the twelve steps of AA parallel therapy
Define and identify trauma.
Identify the trauma template that sets up the use of the Process Addictions
List 3-5 therapeutic interventions to use in practice with Trauma and the Process Addictions.
Explain the analgesic properties of buprenorphine
Review the adverse consequences of high dose opioid therapy, including hyperalgesia
Discuss the guidelines on how to safely transition patients from very high opioid doses to Suboxone in treating chronic pain
Discuss process addictions.
Explain the development of a process addiction.
Explain how to intervene on a process addiction.
Discuss the nature and causes of QTc prolongation in methadone-treated patients
Describe how to risk-stratify patients in terms of potential for QTc prolongation and cardiac arrhythmias
Discuss the clinical and medical-legal implications of ECG testing in this group of patients.
Identify the similarities that exist in the addiction process for the user and the family members.
Discuss the particular ways in which children can internalize problems that occur in the family and the effect that this can have on their lives.
Discuss age appropriate treatment options.
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
Discuss how to implement outcomes-based treatment strategies
Identify the contection of how addictive behavior is influenced and impacted by the "what we are" and the "who we are".
Discuss a model that has been used to help clients give voice to their issues.
Explain how to use this information to warm-up a group exploring issues related to roadblocks to recovery.
What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?
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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