DEE - 23rd Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders

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Thu - All-Day Workshops 100a-103

Thu - Workshop 104 - You cannot choose this session if you attended 100-103

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Thu - Opening Plenary 199

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Sat - Plenary 300

Sat - Workshops 301-307

Sat - Roundtable 325

Sat - Workshops 350-356

Sat - Workshops 375-381

Sat - Workshops 398-399

Sun - Plenaries 400-401

Sun - Plenary 425-426

Sun - Workshops 500-503

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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

Having completed the activity, please rate your ability to meet each of the following objectives:

Cite Common myths, Risk Factors and frequent motivations regarding suicide

Summarize Effective intervention strategies

Review elements of effective postvention

Discuss feelings and reactions of suicide survivors and Dealing with long term effects

Cite three methods of identifying dysfunction in the family system as it relates to "problem" children

List the ten most common battles within family systems

Describe three militant parenting survival techniques

Summarize the issues inherent in treating adolescents with co-occurring disorders, including discussing adolescents who self-medicate with ADD and ADHD

Discuss anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders in the presence of addictive behavior, including the use of marijuana, inhalants, cocaine, hallucinogens, heroin, alcohol, etc

Assess engagement techniques focusing on his model of “Carefrontation”, which includes a discussion of health attribution locus of control and readiness to change

Differentiate 3 dimensions that create opportunity to improve in today’s environment

Summarize major themes that define the organization and delivery of health services in the context of health reform

Review specific changes in policy, structure, process and technology that will reach more of the untreated

Identify the components of sexual health

Argue the Professional’s role in fostering sexual health

Utilize a conceptual understanding of sexual wellness as it relates to recovery

Identify strategies to refer employees to appropriate levels of intervention

Discuss cultural issues in addiction and addictive patterns in families, and relate these to current substance abuse demographic data

Review the influences of our own family of origin belief system

Apply new skills in culturally sensitive assessment, and relate to effective therapeutic approaches

Apply knowledge of specific ethnic and cultural risk factors of addiction and barriers to recovery

Identify how a pause can bring you into the moment

Utilize a new way to connect to one person, a group or an audience

Explain how to be your “authentic self” in every situation

Outline how to ensure your message is seen, heard, delivered, and received

Summarize current approaches to assessment and monitoring physicians with substance use disorders

Review the Massachusetts Board of Registration (BORM) policies in ensuring that physicians with addictive disorders practice safely and the public is protected

Review between Physician Health Services (PHS) and the Massachusetts BORM which enhances physician health and promotes patient safety

Differentiate between acute and chronic pain

Summarize the impact of substance abuse on the workplace

Discuss the epidemiology of buprenorphine diversion

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

Describe the programs that treats prison inmates, including the role of physicians, nurses, counselors, social workers and others

Describe the traditional male journey and men’s treatment issues

Explain the etiology and neurobiology of narcissism

Discuss how genetic predispositions can influence the development of addictions

Review recent brain research that scientifically and anecdotally correlates the use of art in therapy with deeper, more successful, long-lasting insights and outcomes in treatment

Discuss numerous hands on art-in-therapy techniques that helping professionals can use immediately with their clients throughout the continuum of addiction, stages of change, and in co-dependency and family of origin work

Identify a personal connection to their own art-making and integrate the educational and hands-on components for greater clarity and depth of workshop content

Utilize experiential techniques in an ethical manner

Identify the therapeutic process of psychodrama

Differentiate between behavior patterns and acting out behaviors that come out of unresolved trauma

Summarize how to create a “safe place” in psychodrama when doing trauma work

Summarize the nature and prevalence of addiction among the offender population

Explain the formula for offender change – Accountability + Respect+ Community

Identify the content variables (evidence based practices) of the recidivism reduction pyramid and its application in various correctional settings

Discuss the stages of change for offenders

Describe what constitutes trauma

Identify how children and adults process trauma differently

Differentiate between Acute Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Compare different effective treatment methods including but not limited to Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, Rational Emotive Therapies, DBT, EMDR, Exposure Response Prevention, Systematic Desensitization, Flooding, plus holistic approaches and the role of medication in trauma treatment

Summarize Culture and how it may reflect in the process of change for a person affected by Addiction

Describe how the stigma of being from a different culture can potentially impede the humane treatment of a person suffering from an addictive disorder

Identify how substance abuse with co-existing cultural beliefs may intensify potential trauma for persons who seek recovery and a healthy lifestyle

Discuss the original underlying thinking guiding today’s chemical dependency treatment methods

Review the impact of this thinking on Customer Service

Assess the inherent conflict between the public demand for Customer Service, and the traditional beliefs, and practices in the chemical dependency field

Discuss the resolution of this conflict

Apply their understanding of how hope impacts change within the family system

Describe how to foster hope within families

Identify how to intervene and develop treatment plans for families using an approach based on hope and change

Describe how the internet and online communities have fundamentally changed the way that behavioral health professionals are able to connect with those in need of our services

Discuss how, when and why to set up your own online blog, social networking site, YouTube video channel, Twitter accounts and more

Discuss what works and what doesn’t— and why — in the “new world” of social media and online communities

Describe how the internet and online communities have fundamentally changed the way that behavioral health professionals are able to connect with those in need of our services

Discuss how, when and why to set up your own online blog, social networking site, YouTube video channel, Twitter accounts and more

Discuss what works and what doesn’t— and why — in the “new world” of social media and online communities

Explain how the standards were developed to capture contemporary thinking about addiction treatment

Identify the impact of the passage of federal parity legislation and anticipated industry changes impact behavioral health care services

Identify the “global approach” to assessing clients needs

Review 21st century modalities for treating addictive personality

Summarize EMDR and trauma techniques

Identify the high-functioning subtype of alcoholic and to prevent these alcoholics from sliding through the cracks of diagnosis

Differentiate the recovery challenges that high and low-functioning & alcoholics may experience

Utilize treatment strategies specifically to this population in order to effectively break through the powerful denial

Describe what reflective practice is and describe the benefits of reflective practice professionals and/or students in the addiction field

Apply reflective practice in their work or learning environment

Outline a reflective practice piece to assess one's learning

Review attachment styles and how addiction interacts as a function of the underlying human bonding interaction

Discuss the basic neurochemistry of relationships, addiction and recovery

Identify how a pause can bring you into the moment

Utilize a new way to connect to one person, a group or an audience

Explain how to be your “authentic self” in every situation

Outline how to ensure your message is seen, heard, delivered, and received

Discuss the implementation of a positive peer culture in inpatient drug and alcohol treatment

Cite the practical key concepts of positive peer culture, including utilization in the treatment planning process

Discuss the historical views of males in society, including rituals, metaphors, and socialization

Review different therapeutic models in treatment of males, indicating the differences and similarities of each

Describe three methods of therapeutic responding to client resistance during treatment

List the stages of change based upon the Stages of Change Model, and provide a basic description of each stage

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

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

Discuss information processing as a part of adaptation in human experience

Explain how relaxation and mindfulness strategies can be used as a way to heighten the body’s awareness and its movement in physical and social space

Utilize paper-and-pencil "neutral" cognitive exercises as well as discussion of “general knowledge” to stimulate mental alertness, logical thinking, and acknowledgement of positive traits and “intact functioning

Discuss mental health, substance abuse, brain-behavior relationship and spiritual and existential perspectives within the information processing context of human existence

Identify where American, European, Middle and Far Eastern policies and practices overlap

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

Discuss the nature of an evidenced based program and the advantages of building an evidenced based program

List the steps involved in building an evidenced based program for adolescents

Discuss the steps involved in gaining funding for their program

Explain building collaborative networks in their community in order to assure success of their program

Discuss AMA characteristics from an inpatient treatment program

Discuss interventions to impact/decrease AMA discharges

Identify differences in populations (age, gender, psychiatric diagnosis etc).

Explain factors that impact AMA’s and changes you can try in your treatment program to keep people in treatment

Describe Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Review the cause and method of prevention of the disorder

Differentiate primary and secondary symptoms of FASD/FAS

Describe the impact on the child’s life and caregiver’s lives

Explain how to select patients who are appropriate candidates for therapy with opioids, including methadone

Define risk factors for potential misuse or abuse of opioid analgesics

Discuss methadone's unique pharmacologic properties

Describe a careful, evidence-based protocol for starting patients on opioid analgesic therapy

Explain a new paradigm and model of change for offenders with addictions

Describe how the formula for offender change: accountability + respect + community, evolved and operates

Name barriers and hurdles that offenders with addiction must wrestle with as they re-integrate back into a pro-social society

Compare medication treatments for chronic pain

Discuss non-mediation treatments for chronic pain

Discuss the influence of Drug Free Workplace, drug testing and the American with Disabilities Act on workplace response

Cite trends of supervisor responses at the workplace

Discuss the protocol of the First Call Worksheet

Summarize the use of genograms to work with a family to develop a Recovery Message

Discuss a First Call situation utilizing the First Call Worksheet

Describe the extent of substance use disorders in older adults

Differentiate the presentation of alcoholism and drug addiction in the geriatric population and will utilize age-appropriate screening and diagnostic criteria

Review intervention techniques more effective for older adults

Discuss the technology of telemedicine and its use in delivering addiction medicine and mental health servi

Review the development and evolution of the technology of telemedicine

Summarize the guidelines for video-conferencing-based tele-mental health services, including HIPPA guidelines

Discuss the symptoms of shame-based trauma which are often co-morbid with substance use disorders

Explain the difference between anxiety-based trauma (i.e., PTSD) and shame-based trauma

Outline the treatment objectives and interventions that work to effectively treat the symptoms of shame-based trauma

Differentiate the unmet needs from today’s returning veterans and those of the past, including the use of alcohol and drugs to self-medicate

Review the correlation between traumatic brain injury from war and the use of drugs/alcohol as a coping mechanism upon re-entry

Argue alternatives for treatment that allow for more normalized transition w/o the use of drugs/alcohol

Describe the interface between addiction issues, including alcohol and both illicit and pharmaceutical drugs of abuse, with the criminal justice system

Name positive and negative aspects of criminal sanctions, including incarceration, on the natural history of addictive disorders

List the overall societal costs of criminal justice sanctions

Explain the role the treatment community can play in reining in the problem

Identify key steps that can be taken in curtailing the problem

Explain how to expand the strategies and metaphors in their work helping clients heal

Discuss the definition of trauma

Review the similarities between chemical dependency and shopping/spending addiction to challenge participants to understand shopping/spending addiction as a disease

Identify a compulsive shopper/spender

Describe how shopping/spending becomes an addiction

Summarize the role interventions plays in the industry

Assess the ideal and necessary skill sets for becoming an interventionist

Discuss chemical and physiological properties of methamphetamine

Summarize the acute and chronic effects of Methamphetamine

Identify evidence-based treatment approach elements

Summarize the FOP model

List three “plans” in their lives that brought them to a place of surrender

Review those “plans” and describe one point of surrender

Review efficacy and effectiveness outcomes for XR-NTX alcohol pharmacotherapy

Apply basic competency in recommended medication injection procedures

Identify strategies for expanding XR-NTX in general care settings and among underserved populations

Describe the programs that treats prison inmates, including the role of physicians, nurses, counselors, social workers and others

Discuss the importance of screening this population for alcohol and other drug abuse

Discuss brief interventions and development of treatment plans

Discuss the importance of screening this population for alcohol and other drug abuse

Discuss brief interventions and development of treatment plans

Utilize your skills as a professional to interact in a “sales” discussion

Utilize a structured approach to conversation that will enhance your confidence, ability and, ultimately, results

Summarize a consultative approach to your interactions with your customers

Utilize your skills as a professional to interact in a “sales” discussion

Utilize a structured approach to conversation that will enhance your confidence, ability and, ultimately, results

Summarize a consultative approach to your interactions with your customers

Review the relationship of spirituality and depressive disorders among substance dependent patients

Assess the relationship of religiosity and depressive disorders among substance dependent patients

Utilize new tools to enhance spirituality among substance dependent patients

Identify six validity techniques to better determine an individual’s suicide risk

Explain high risk behaviors and statistical risk factors associated with suicide

Discuss legal and treatment issues related to suicidal individuals

Identify the most common substances used by elderly individuals

Describe how substances affect the aging person and interferes with cognitive and affective domains

List two types of strategies that are effective when providing substance abuse treatment for elderly persons

Discuss and describe disordered gambling as a co-occurring disorder prevalent in those with other substance abuse and mental health disorders

Describe the DSM-IV criteria for disordered gambling

List warning signs of problem gambling

Review the history of the development of medication-assisted treatment in the New York City jail

Summarize data on the level of recidivism and other outcome measures in those who participated in this program and those who did not

Compare barriers, opportunities and challenges costs and offsets in the implementation of this program

Name the advantages and disadvantages of learning to work with same gender groups

Discuss the issues of female counselors working with men

Explain the importance of addiction treatment public advocacy

Identify the parts of the “three legged stool” of public policy change

Outline the basics of how to create a local public policy impact

Explain the relationship between narcissism and addiction

Distinguish the different styles of narcissism and the nuances between male and female narcissists

Review prison, hiv+drug users history

Discuss the importance of integrating treatment within the prison system

Explain how to develop a referral system and network for reintegrating the population

Describe how treatment and prevention programs can consider genetic factors in treatment

Describe appropriate strategies for prevention programs in light of genetic and age of onset factors

Distinguish between antisocial behavior related to addiction and ASPD and assess its benefit for treatment planning and risk management

Evaluate ASPD as a well-replicated negative predictor of outcome for substance abuse treatment

Review clinical experience and research findings that have repeatedly confirmed the efficacy of coerced treatment for alcohol and substance abuse disorders

Summarize research that confirms the benefits of various forms of mediation and prayer, especially as they relate to recovery from substance use disorders

Identify the differences and similarities of religion and spirituality

Explain how to develop appropriate boundaries to prevent the promotion or bias towards any particular faith

Discuss how animals can play a significant role in the healing process of addiction

Identify how animals can assist the client in establishing a healthy, recovery lifestyle

Review cases where utilizing animal assisted therapy reduces the barriers within the therapeutic setting by assisting the client to unleash emotions of guilt, shame and grief related to their past behavior

Summarize the definitions, intent and purpose of CRF 42 Part B and HIPAA

Identify and discuss specific areas of overlap regarding confidentiality

Review resources for interpretation and implementation of the regulations

Explain the creation and use of the techniques

Summarize theories supporting the techniques

Describe experientially the effects of the techniques

Describe how to move from a cognitive to an integrated understanding of 12-step and recovery work

Explain how to move into trauma resolution through psychodrama

Outline how psychodrama begins the process of healing shame in the recovery process

Describe the importance of comprehensive re-entry services as a necessary component of reducing re-offending

Summarize the challenges and complexities of change as experienced by offenders with addiction

Explain the importance of preparing the client to Predict and Prepare for important dates and anniversaries associated with trauma

Discuss how our personal selves can be affected by working with trauma survivors and the importance of caring for selves

Discuss trauma as an etiological root to many maladaptive behaviors and illnesses

Assess the use of Relapse Prevention Methods with this population

Explain the overlap between sexual compulsivity and substance use

Explain internet sexual compulsivity, including assessment, “diagnosis,” and treatment concerns

Identify the basic components of the Treatment Model

Identify strategies they can use to identify resources for support and treatment for the client

Summarize methods of delivering quality Customer Service in the chemical dependency field

Discuss case studies/situations and what approach may be best utilized

Discuss how to use motivational, acceptance and change strategies with treatment resistant clients; with the goal of enhancing therapeutic effectiveness

Differentiate between knowledge and awareness for behavior change and analysis of anger-frustration experience related to "expectation of change"

Practice self assessment and goal attainment exercises to evaluate and reflect one's goals, steps to reach goals, barriers to goals, and identify markers for progress

Discuss the need to build holistic pro-social programs for adolescents intertwining prevention, education, and accessible treatment

Identify resources for the disorder

Explain treatment implications for those who are impacted and birth mothers of children exposed

List steps for monitoring for effectiveness of the therapy and to minimize the potential for medication diversion, abuse, or addiction

Discuss the s empathy for what offenders with addiction need to do to recover and change

Differentiate the ways substance abuse problems manifest at work

Discuss current EAP response and best practice to substance abuse

Describe potential new directions for addressing substance abuse at work

Assess specific treatment modalities for older adults including pharmacotherapy, psychosocial interventions, and relapse techniques

Describe the application of tele-mental health and its contribution to the delivery of addiction medicine services

Review the capabilities of tele-mental health services through direct observation of live demonstration on a large screen

Review future applications of tele-mental health services

Describe the causal effect between a shame-based childhood and problems with the development of the self in adulthood

Discuss how to develop family supports while veterans are in recovery

Discuss the criminal justice/correctional – industrial complex and the role it has in fostering the nation’s drug laws, and its overall societal effects

Differentiate between a criminal justice and public health approach to the problem of addiction

Review signs and symptoms to identify trauma survivors with addiction or other compulsive behaviors

Identify coping skills for both the clinician and clients

Outline treatment strategies

Explain how these treatment approach elements are tailored

Identify and qualify what leads you need to capture, starting with your existing contacts

Identify the art of asking questions and listening in order to interpret your customer’s needs

Outline your product or service in a conversational style focused on the benefits to your customer

Review the inability to have maximum or optimal impact on patient-inmates

Outline ethical issues related to medical and addiction care in this setting

Identify the specific issues which led to the beginning of a treatment system within the Adult Correctional Institution (ACI)

Identify and qualify what leads you need to capture, starting with your existing contacts

Identify the art of asking questions and listening in order to interpret your customer’s needs

Outline your product or service in a conversational style focused on the benefits to your customer

Review resources for managing suicidality

Discuss successful culturally relevant strategies when working with identified populations

List both risk and protective factors related to problem gambling

Discuss possible community collaborations when addressing problem gambling

Discuss the importance of community treatment program liaisons

Discuss male oppression and its relationship to alcohol and other drug abuse

Identify tools that release narcissistic images and reduce conflict in relationships

Describe how clinical assessment findings are compatible with genetic models of addiction

Explain how to incorporate opportunities for spiritual awakenings in their own treatment modalities

Utilize a group setting where specific animal assisted therapy techniques are utilized

Identify the qualifications of the animal that are necessary when using an animal in a therapeutic setting and implementing of an animal assisted therapy program

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