DEE - WCSAD - The Fourth Annual West Coast Symposium on Addictive Disorders

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Thu - 8:30-12:00 or 5:30 - Morning/All Day Pre-Symposium Courses

Thu - 1:30-5:00 - Afternoon Pre-Symposium Courses

Thu - 7:00â€“9:00 - Opening Plenary

Fri - 8:30-5:30 - Two-Day Skills Courses, Part A - Must attend both days

Fri - 8:30-10:00 - Morning Plenary

Fri - 10:45-5:30 - 3/4 Day Workshop

Fri - 10:45â€“12:15 - Mid Morning Workshops

Fri - 12:15-1:45 - Luncheon Plenary

Fri - 1:45â€“6:30- 3/4 Day Workshop

Fri - 1:45â€“3:15 - Mid Afternoon Workshops

Fri - 5:30-7:30 - 3/4 Day Workshop

Fri - 4:00â€“5:30 - Late Afternoon Workshops

Fri 7:30â€“9:00 - Evening Plenary

Sat - 8:00-5:30 - Two-Day Skills Courses, Part B - Must attend both days

Sat - 8:30-12:15 - Half day Workshop

Sat - 8:30-10:00 - AM Morning Workshops

Sat - 10:45-5:30 - 3/4 Day Workshop

Sat - 10:45-12:15 - Mid Morning Workshops

Sat - 12:15-1:45 - Luncheon Plenary

Sat - 1:45-5:30 - All Afternoon Workshops

Sat - 1:45-3:15 - Mid Afternoon Workshops

Sat - 4:00-5:30 - Late Afternoon Workshops

Sat - 5:30 - 7:30 - Dinner Plenary:

Sat - 7:30-9:30 - Evening Plenary

Sun - 8:30-10:00- Morning Plenary

Sun - 10:30-12:00 - Closing Plenary

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Please rate the following:

The program was relevant to my work.

Content matched stated objectives.

Usefulness of handouts/AV.

Quality of facilities.

How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?

If you rated any of the above questions with 'fair,' 'poor,' 'disagree,' or 'strongly disagree' please explain in detail (e.g. session title, speaker name, situtation):

Please rate the speaker(s) as a group. You will have the opportunity to elaborate on an individual speaker in the following question.

Objective 1: Apply clinical skills from a broad range of professional core functions including assessment, therapeutic approaches.

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.

If you have additional comments regarding the session or individual speaker(s) - e.g. teaching ability, expertise, organization of materials, etc. - please use the space below:

Objective 2: Cite advances in the addiction field resulting from research and practice innovations.

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: Ddiscuss key issues such as cultural diversity, gender issues, sexual orientation and age-specific differences in relation to clinician/client interaction.

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.

Distinguish between a legal and ethical considerations.

Apply the Tarasoff decision to daily practice.

Identify risk-susceptibility factors that make clinicians vulnerable.

Be able to differienate clinical supervision from case management.

Learn a minimum of 3 techniques to work with those who are resistent to supervision.

Identify the four key tasks of a supervisor.

Discuss the benefits of collaborating with professionals across a variety of disciplines.

Discuss several current issues in the field of addiction.

Develop awareness of specific methods to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Explain the development and maintenance of Anorexia, Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder.

Identify six medical and nutritional complications present in patients with eating disorders.

Discuss the psychiatric co-morbidity common with eating disorders.

Identify three psychological influences triggering eating disorder pathology and symptomology.

Describe the role of the family in the treatment of eating disorders.

Discuss three evidenced-based treatment approaches in working with patients with eating disorders.

Discuss what makes the difference in addiction recovery that is complicated by mental disorders, and how Boomers become engaged in treatment.

Explain how aging and addiction is becoming more complex in the Boomer population, and why generationally informed treatment is effective.

Explain how invitational intervention reduces the likelihood of inflicting trauma on the system.

Discuss how scheduled engagement with the system reduces blame, shame and guilt while fueling family recovery.

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 importance of involving family and natural support system in order to achieve long-term positive outcomes.

Discuss the relevance of early anxious and avoidant attachment disruption for codependent clients in treatment.

Identify the critical connection between this disruption and the inability to successfully regulate emotions, often leading to relationship damage and chemical addiction.

Recognize the signs of adrenal system damage for codependent clients.

Explain how current life stressors can trigger substance abuse, including chronic pain, financial pressures, "sandwich generation" factors, job, divorce, grief and intimacy.

List the 2 different types of compulsive gamblers.

Define financial sobriety.

Discuss the credentialing process.

Identify key findings from the NESARC and other research that on the surface seems to completely challenge the basic assumptions of the addictions field identifying how these findings make perfect sense once we separate the paradigms of alcoholism/addiction from the paradigm of dependence.

Identify the benefits to clients of offering two treatment paths with wholly different goals.

Describe how alcoholism/addiction and dependence represent different paradigms and are thus not synonymous.

Identify the role that neuroplasticity plays in relapse.

Name at least 3 chemical hazards to recovery.

Discuss the rule which applies to use of pharmaceuticals in addiction medicine.

Describe 3 methods of therapeutic responding to client resistance during treatment.

Name 3 tools, from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), for motivating clients who are treatment-resistant.

Summarize the research supporting the use of DBT in helping adolescents who are resisting current interventions.

Identify the process of addiction interaction adn recent research.

Develop a comprehensive Recovery Action Plan that takes into consideratino co-addictions; keeping in mind sobriety challenges.

Utilize a 12-step approach in your clinical practice when treating addiction interaction and define therapeutic activities that will assist the addict and their family to achieve increased coping.

Describe the proposed DSM-5 criteria and how it differs from the current DSM-IV-TR.

Explain why some with a current diagnosis of abuse will not receive a diagnosis with the new criteria.

Identify which diagnostic orphans (those with dependence indications but no diagnosis) will get a diagnosis in the new criteria.

Discuss the Rudiments of Solution Focused Coaching ( based on the evidenced based research of DeJong and Berg).

Describe how Solution Focused Family Recovery Coaching may be interwoven into the Intervention process. Attention will be given to Invitational Family Systems Models.

Discuss what Solution Focused Coaching offers and how it Interfaces with and Supports Treatment, Family Programs and After Care.

Discuss the theoretical principles of Multiple Family Group Therapy.

Discuss various family therapy systems theories and family dynamics.

Apply therapeutic techniques incorporated in the Multiple Family Group Therapy format.

Identify when a client's brain has been affected by a tramatic event or multiple events.

Discuss recent research regarding direct effects of trauma on the brain.

Discuss varies methods available for the resolution of trauma and brain healing.

Discuss Light and Dark/Jeykl and Hyde, the part of us wanting to stay clean and sober and the other piece that wants to get high regardless of the consequences.

Explain how transparency breeds growth, learning to be honest and authentic.

Define the events that led to the spiritual outlook that choosing life is the decision to ennoble the common, and to bless and sanctify the ordinary and mundane.

Discuss the neural structural and functional deficits that exist in both chronic pain and addiction.

Discuss the concomitant behavioral and cognitive deficits and how they can be restored through proper stimulation.

Discuss the concept of neuroplasticity.

Discuss client directed, outcome informed core philosophy.

Describe a practice based evidence approach.

Discuss real time measurement of the therapeutic alliance.

Discuss how to provide treatment of opioid dependence. Provide clinical mentoring that emphasizes practical issues in the recognition and treatment of opioid dependence.

Discuss the more complex issues in the treatment of those with substance use disorders, opioid dependence, and other mental or medical illnesses.

Discuss ways to make buprenorphine training widely accessible to physicians through use of multiple training formats and technologies.

Describe the different bariatric procedures, medical risk pre and post surgery, and how those risks can play into eating disorder behaviors.

Explain how binge eating disorder is unique and the same as anorexia and bulimia.

Identify dietary approaches to treating binge eating disorder and eating disorders that present post-bariatric.

Discuss the difficulties associated with starting up your own business.

Explain how to research opportunities for starting up a business enterprise.

Describe how to develop a start up business plan and begin the process.

Describe an integrated framework for understanding the connection between trauma, addictions and resilience training for teens.

Discuss ways to increase skills in resilience training for teens.

Discuss post traumatic growth.

Identify 2 developmental origins of shame.

Discuss the 2 differences between doubling and mirroring.

List 3 psychodramatic/sociometric interventions for reducing shame.

Discuss the prevalence of co-occurring Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and mental health disorders in adolescents and adults.

Discuss how to accurately assess and diagnose co-occurring SUD and mental health disorders.

Describe treatment guidelines and barriers to treatment for patients diagnosed with co-occurring SUD and mental disorders.

Discuss the importance of sexual health to successful addictiontreatment and long term recovery.

Discuss how to implement a discovering sexual health curriculum in a treatment setting.

Describe why sexual behavior and the shame often engendered by behavior during active addiction need to be addressed proactively in a comprehensive treatment program.

Discuss ways to develop treatment programs and individual care plans, and implement documentation and billing systems which meet the demands of the insurance company.

List ways to implement documentation and billing systems which meet the demands of the insurance company.

Discuss clinical and business office processes which meet the requirements (verification, preauthorization, concurrent review, billing and appeals)) of the insurance company and/or behavioral health organization.

Discuss the use of warm-ups, action, working-through, closure and sharing.

Discuss specific re-enactments of hypothetical and/or real client demonstrations of psychodrama.

Describe the precautions of doing psychodrama work and how to approach the resistant or "stuck" client.

Discuss how the neuroplasiticy of the brain can result in biochemical changes in the brain in recovery.

Describe the mechanisms of change in the brain in recovery.

Explain the role of SPECT imaging in treating the most difficult cases. The latest scientific research will be included in this.

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 addiction can be directly linked to multigenerational transmission of trauma.

Discuss the complex trauma and trauma repetition in participants' lives or clinical case example.

List movies and characters that represent them now and in their childhood.

Discuss the basic elements of wilderness therapy that remain constant across programs.

Explain the current theories for how wilderness therapy works.

Describe how wilderness therapy can work to magnify the effectiveness of established treatments for addiction such as twelve-step facilitation and motivational interviewing.

Describe the core components of Project Lazarus.

Describe the use of naloxone rescue kits to allow community members to respond to an overdose.

Discuss the outcomes associated with Project Lazarus.

Discuss physical, mental and spiritual states, listing and describing those observations to various partners during timed drills.

Discuss mental tools to demonstrate warrior focus and discuss self assessment with the group.

Create a plan to overcome adversity, demonstrate, critique and revise during interval drills.

Explain the similarities between Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) assumptions and Twelve Step philosophy.

Discuss ways to recognize DBT skills of emotion regulation within Twelve Step literature.

Discuss how to utilize emotion regulation tools that integrate DBT and the Twelve Steps.

Discuss how to break the shame cycle using truth/humor.

List ways to inspire trust in clients using humor.

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.

Define financial sobriety.

List the 2 different types of compulsive gamblers.

Discuss the credentialing process.

Identify the Relapse Casade and its key elements.

Name the steps in Relapse Prevention.

Identify common ED behaviors that arise in Chemical Dependency treatment.

Describe how the active Eating Disorder will interfere with Chemical Dependency treatment.

Identify common medications that can worsen the Eating Disorder.

Discuss current trends in the recovery business.

Describe how to build a team for the intervention.

Identify and expand appropriate scope of practice.

Describe the basic aspects of the Adaptive Information Processing Model.

Describe the basic aspects of Attachment Theory.

Utilize tools to address underlying trauma associated with maladaptive behaviors in their clients.

Discuss how facilities and providers can utilize health insurance.

Explain problems providers may experience when billing insurance for services and how to combat these issues.

List methods to advocate patient's rights.

Identify how development of a spiritual practice can enhance recovery outcomes.

Discuss simple, concrete and effective tools that enable clients to explore their spirituality while maintaining sobriety/abstinence.

Expand the realm of traditional recovery skills in treatment planning with exercises in mindfulness, reflective writing and music.

Discuss the role of unresolved childhood attachment and trauma in sex addiction.

Assess for co-morbid disorders in the sexually addicted client.

Explore multi-disciplinary modalities to effectively treat sexual addiction.

Discuss the different facets of sexual addiction.

List the different therapies that can be used for sexual addiction.

Explain the different levels of sexual addiction and the implications for treatment.

Discuss the appropriateness and the settings in which neuropsychological testing is instrumental in the diagnosis and treatment of addiction.

List the questions neuropsychological testing can ask and test for and what it cannot.

Explain neuropsychological testing's role and discover the spectrum of interpersonal, mental and emotional function that affects recovery in addicted clients.

Explain the principles of screening before prescribing opioids.

Discuss the principles of monitoring the patient while they are taking opioids.

Discuss ways to avoid problems of abuse and dependence of opioid pain medicines.

Utilize mindfulness and acceptance skills in working with clients in recovery from addictions.

Apply the loss-addiction cycle timeline when assessing clients in recovery from addictions.

Describe the indications for the use of adjunctive pain medications.

Discuss the indications for techniques such as epidural steroid injections, intrathecal delivery of pain medication.

Explain peripheral neural stimulation and deep brain stimulation for central pain and refractory addiction.

Describe the psychological climate in family systems that reinforce body-based communication and denial of self that underlie most eating disorders.

List some of the effects of trans-generationally transmitted impaired coping on family members.

List techniques to drive system shift in order to optimize treatment outcomes and interrupt epigenetic transmission of these conditions to the next generation.

Describe the relationship between PTSD and addictive disorders.

Utilize assessments that can identify those patients with comorbid PTSD.

List the available evidence based treatment options for the treatment of PTSD and addictive disorders.

Discuss substance abuse in older adults including prevalence, etiology, symptoms, risk factors and co-morbidities.

Identify barriers and stereo-types that interfere with assessment and treatment of older adults.

Describe approaches for an older adult treatment program.

List key characteristics of the nine Enneagram personality types, noting how addictive patterns present in each type.

Identify their dominant Enneagram type(s) through the Enneagram Inquiry Narrative process.

Practice applying their findings to guide sessions with clients, as well as to further personal and professional development.

Identify when a client's debts are unmanageable, i.e. when the client needs to be more proactive in resolving his or her debts, or needs a referral to a legal professional.

Discuss the short and long-term legal consequences of unmanageable debts, with the client, in order to assist the client in understanding the seriousness of their situation.

Define codependency.

Identify the behaviors that form around codependency.

Explore the basis for codependency and the consequent disconnect from self.

List 6 purposes in the pain and understand how to utilize them in the scope of their own area of expertise.

List 6 forms of relief obtained discussed during the presentation and identify their practical use in their individual work.

List at least one form of relief based on finding a purpose in the pain that will become a mainstay in their work that can offer clients never having to feel that bad again.

Identify cognitive changes associated with different drugs of abuse.

Describe how substance induced cognitive changes impact engagement in treatment and recovery.

Identify strategies to help patients compensate for cognitive difficulties in treatment.

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.

Describe current screening practices to identify pathological gambling.

Review DSM-V criteria for pathological gambling.

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.

Review current biopsychosocial formulations about the cause and course of pathological gambling.

Discuss areas of practice within which technology based tools are available.

Discuss ways to improve your practice by utilizing such tools.

Discuss specific somatic interventions and exercises to support client and clinician self care, as well as embodied practices to facilitate emotional regulation, craving management, and anxiety reduction.

Explain the neuroscience and physiology of anxiety and addiction including the polyvagal system, the fight/flight/freeze response, and the rewards center of the brain, and how specific embodied approaches address areas of the brain unreachable through talk alone.

Discuss how cooperation with the professional community is an objective of AA, and AA is always seeking to strengthen and expand our communication with the professional community.

Explain what A.A. is and is not, A.A.'s primary purpose, sponsorship, the Steps and Traditions and other basic principles of A.A.program.

Discuss Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) protocols.

Describe how DBT has been adapted to help clients struggling with substance abuse.

Practice cutting-edge skills that can be taught to clients struggling with emotional dysregulation and substance abuse.

Identify the main differences between adolescent and adult substance users.

Identify the most popular drugs of choice for adolescents.

Identify the benefits of using an integrated treatment model with adolescents with co-occurring issues.

Discuss the relationship between stress, craving and relapse.

Identify the nine components of resilience.

Discuss ways of teaching this model, including specific exercises, to clients.

Identify typical challenges in clinical diagnosis of ADHD in adults with co-occurring addictive disorders.

Explain the rationale for using mindfulness as an empirically supported approach to working with addictive disorders and adult ADHD.

Describe how mindfulness can attenuate stress and emotional dysregulation in patients with ADHD and additive disorders.

Describe the Benefit of Intervention Process to the Family/Team.

Describe the Benefit of the Intervention Process to the Identified Patient/Client.

Describe the Benefit of the Intervention Process to the Provider.

Discuss how the use of Cinema Therapy can aid in recovery.

List the guidelines for choosing and watching films to support personal, spiritual and psychological growth.

Discuss modern attachment theory as regulation theory.

Formulate the difference between cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and affect regulation therapy (ART).

Define the different attachment categories that sex addicts usually fall under.

Identify signs and symptoms requiring medication evaluation.

Identify stages of development which do not require medication.

Identify stages of recovery which are particularly vulnerable for psychological distress.

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?

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Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?

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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?

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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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