2011 Pre-Conference Offerings


Increase your professional worth by earning extra CEs while enhancing your knowledge at one of the following pre-conference workshops. 

 

Saturday, September 17, 2011

8:30 AM — 4:00 PM 

PC1: Integrating Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders:
An Introduction to What Every Addiction Counselor Needs to Know

Timothy Sheehan, PhD, Hazelden Foundation
Mary Woods, RNC, LADC, MSHS, CEO, WestBridge Community Services

 
Fee to attend:  $150
 
This workshop will help professionals expand their knowledge of best practices in treating co-occurring disorders. The concept of co-occurring disorders will be defined, along with a chronology of identifying and assessing this and other mental health and addiction related issues. Common mental health disorders will be described and treatment strategies for co-occurring ailments will be introduced. Review of assessment tools and stage based treatment interventions will be discussed. Review of the DDCAT assessment for identification of level of integration of dual disorders in addiction programs will be reviewed.
 
Learning Objectives:
  1. Recognize and screen for the most frequent co-occurring disorder seen in substance abuse settings.
  2. Apply knowledge of evidence-based practices currently utilized in the substance
    abuse arena to treatment of clients with co-occurring disorders\
  3. Identify a client's stage of change and stage of treatment to implement effective
    interventions.
  4. Discuss the clinical aspects 
 


8:30 AM — 4:00 PM

PC2: Brief Intervention Group (BIG) Initiative Training Forum: Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Using Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

Eric Goplerud, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Substance Abuse, Mental Health and Criminal Justice Studies, NORC at the University of Chicago
Tracy McPherson, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Substance Abuse, Mental Health and Criminal Justice Studies, NORC at the University of Chicago
Fee to attend:  $150
 
Substantial empirical support exists for screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) and follow-up in medical settings. However, in non-medical behavioral health settings, there isn't enough being done to identify clients who don't meet DSM criteria for a substance use disorder but still engage in risky, harmful, and hazardous alcohol and drug use. SBIRT within behavioral health settings can give practitioners an opportunity to reach millions of clients annually with prevention and early intervention strategies. Training will illustrate an evidence-based SBIRT approach using motivational interviewing strategies, which can be integrated seamlessly into office-based and telephone-based practice to identify/manage hazardous and harmful use. Brief, easy-to-use screening tools and levels of brief intervention will be identified; sample protocols will be shared, and the Brief Intervention Group ("BIG") Initiative to adopt evidence-based SBIRT as part of routine practice will be discussed. To increase learner engagement and retention, training will consist of interactive and didactic components, with role play and use of audio/video vignettes highlighting client screenings at different levels of risk, and demonstrate appropriate/inappropriate SBIRT and follow-up care. Supplemental take-home materials will be provided, including articles and an SBIRT/MI resource list with links to downloadable materials and online programs for both the client and practitioner.
 
Learning Objectives:
  1. Use brief validated screening tools that can be integrated into routine practice to identify clients at risk for a substance use problem.
  2. Demonstrate how to relate appropriate levels of brief intervention to level of substance use risk based on client screening score.
  3. Employ motivationally-informed brief intervention techniques to address risky, hazardous, and harmful substance use, including use of print and online client self-management resources available by NIAAA (e.g., "Rethinking Drinking") and JoinTogether's alcoholscreening.org. 
 

8:30 AM — 4:30 PM

PC3: Intervention 101: Understanding the Core Concepts, the Process and Industry

Fee to attend: $150
This all-day session will provide individuals with both a broad scope understanding of what intervention is and how it can be an essential component to an individual's initial and ongoing recovery. Core concepts of the intervention process will be discussed including, definition of intervention, methods of intervention, central educational concepts of intervention, clinical assessment concepts, family alignment (systems) issues and the "business" of intervention.
 
Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify when an intervention would be necessary and useful tool for helping a resistant client enter treatment
  2. Make better clinical admissions decisions based on assessment information
  3. Describe how the intervention process works
 
This workshop is sponsored by:  Field Model of Intervention, JaneMintz.com, Realife Interventions, Alta Mira Recovery Programs, The Bridge to Recovery, and The Refuge - A Healing Place.
 
 
 
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM 

PC4: 'You Can't Make Me Change': Using the Stages of Change Model to Help Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders

Frank Bartolomeo, Ph.D., Vice President, Child & Adolescent Services, Rushford

Fee to attend: Free

Adolescents with substance use disorders present formidable practice challenges. Adolescents with substance use disorders are a heterogeneous and diagnostically diverse population, frequently coping concurrently with mental health issues and the substantial developmental tasks of adolescence. Adding to these clinical challenges is that the context of a treatment is initially nonvoluntary in that adolescents with substance abuse disorders generally face non-legal pressures, (parents, family, agencies, and referring parties) to participate in treatment. The formal pressure to participate in substance abuse treatment provokes reactance in some teens that can result in contrary attitudes and behaviors. The transtheoretical model of change, when overlaid with both an understanding of normative adolescents needs as well as the theory of reactance creates a developmentally-attuned framework for intervention and treatment.

This workshop is sponsored by:

Learning Objectives:
  1. Participants will be able to identify 3 normative developmental needs of adolescence
  2. Participants will be able to identify specific stages of changes
  3. Participants will be able to describe specific interventions relative to the stages of change 
About the Speaker: 

Dr. Frank Bartolomeo, Vice President of Adolescent Services for Rushford in Connecticut, has over 20 years' experience in the adolescent behavioral health field in settings such as residential treatment centers, schools and hospitals in metro Boston. He served as Executive Director for the Academy at Swift River, where he spearheaded the school's transformation from an emotional growth paradigm to contemporary model that incorporated the best available research on residential care. He also co-chaired the Children's Group Therapy Association in Boston. Dr. Bartolomeo has written scholarly articles on stages of group development and group work in residential settings for adolescents.

 

 
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
 
PC5: Addiction Nutrition- How to address recovery from chemical addictions using dietary choices and supplements
 
Victoria Abel, MA, MNT, Addiction Nutrition Therapist, Decision Point Center
 
Fee to attend:  Free
This presentation will review cutting edge research on the role of nutrition for addicts in recovery. It will stress the impact of food on the brain and body. It will also provide information on how to assist client's in managing cravings through food and supplementation choices. Often the body is overlooked in physiological treatment for addiction. Research holds that patients who change to a whole foods diet along with specific supplementation can speed up detoxification time as well as show decreased cravings for their substance of choice.

Included will be the following:

  1. How early diet can impact addictive tendencies
  2. Food and alcohol/drug craving cycles
  3. Role of food allergies and sensitivities in addiction
  4. Healing the brain's stores of serotonin and dopamine to increase mood stability
  5. Creation of meal plans to decrease relapse and speed detoxification
  6. Appropriate supplementation with nutrients such as amino acids to help avoid chronic relapse

This workshop is sponsored by:

Learning Objectives:
  1. Describe the physiology of addiction and the role that nutrition plays
  2. Describe the impact of sugar, caffeine and artificial additives
  3. Create sample whole food meal plans for patients

 

About the Speaker:
 
Having worked in the field of addiction for 18 years, Victoria has been a therapist at two dual diagnosis treatment centers, as well as a primary therapist eating disorder treatment center. Along with addiction nutrition, she is trained in EMDR and sex addiction treatment. She is a professor at Prescott College and has previously been an instructor in at two graduate institutions in their counseling and addiction programs. Presently, she consults at three addiction treatment centers working with clients on healing past damage caused by addiction, teaching cooking classes and planning long term health goals through dietary choices and supplementation.