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5th National Counseling Advances Conference

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Event type: Conference

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11/07/2013 - 11/09/2013

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2013-11-07 00:00:00 2013-11-09 00:00:00 eastern 5th National Counseling Advances Conference 5th National Counseling Advances Conference -Nov 7–9, 2013 — Delray Beach, Florida Credits: up to 20 Credit Hours. This conference will address clinical issues, manifestations and effects that counselors and therapists observe in clients and families Delray Beach Marriott Lorie Keip (ext. 220): Charles Davis (ext. 229) [email protected] false MM/DD/YYYY

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Location: Delray Beach Marriott

10 North Ocean Blvd Delray Beach, Florida, 33483 United States

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Contact Name: Lorie Keip (ext. 220): Charles Davis (ext. 229)

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Phone: 800-441-5569

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Description

Credits: up to 20 Credit Hours. This conference will address clinical issues, manifestations and effects that counselors and therapists observe in clients and families

Topics

 

• Trauma and its Treatment   • Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors  
• The New DSM 5   • Brain Science and Addiction  
• Mindfulness, Meditation and Psychotherapy   • Co-Occurring Disorders  
• Food and Mood   • Women and Substance Abuse  
• Narcissistic Wounds   • Treating Anxiety and Panic Disorders  
• Bullying and Sibling Abuse   • Solution Oriented Therapy  
• Treating Depression   • Gender Differences in Treatment  

 

Conference Faculty Includes:

Robert Ackerman
Robert Ackerman, PhD

Professor of Sociology and Program Coordinator for the interdisciplinary degree in Human Services at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, South Carolina, Dr. Ackerman is a co-founder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. As an author he has published numerous articles and research findings and is best known for writing the first book in the United State on children of alcoholics. He has become internationally known for his work with families and children of all ages. His books have been translated into thirteen languages. Dr. Ackerman serves as the editor of Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals.

 
Paul Alleva, MSW

Having worked with clients at South County Mental Health Center’s Baker Act and Dual Diagnosed Unit as well as various drug treatment centers in the South Florida area, Paul has achieved outstanding recognition for his clinical work with addictions and trauma and in various administrative duties within the addictions and mental health fields

Joan Borysenko
Joan Borysenko, PhD

Harvard Medical School trained cancer cell biologist, a licensed psychologist, Dr. Borysenko is a pioneer in psychoneuroimmunology, mind-body medicine, and stress management and she is known for her tender exploration of the human spirit—what kindles it and what snuffs it out. Founder of Mind-Body Health Sciences, LLC in Boulder, Colorado, Joan is a perennially popular national speaker and author of 15 books including the New York Times bestselling Minding the Body, Mending the Mind.

Ashish Bhatt
Ashish Bhatt, MD

Board Certified by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry, Dr. Bhatt is the former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of Miami and currently serves as Medical Director of The Recovery Place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Ralph Carson
Ralph Carson, PhD, LD, RD

Involved in the clinical treatment of addictions, obesity, and eating disorders for over thirty years using a neuropsychobiological approach. Dr. Carson offers a unique understanding of health, wellness, exercise, and nutrition and how they all affect brain health. He currently consults with numerous addiction and eating disorder treatment centers throughout the country as well as being a highly sought after speaker at various conferences and workshops. He is an active board member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP). Working with Academy Medical Systems, he developed workshops for professional groups throughout the U.S. on topics such as exercise therapy, sports nutrition, eating disorders, and childhood obesity.

Holly Cook
Holly Cook, LPC

Executive Director of the Integrative Life Center in Nashville, Tennesee, Holly is a licensed professional counselor/mental health service provider who brings 25 years experience in the addictions and mental health fields to the Integrative Life Center. She has had the opportunity to receive training over the years with several of the "masters" in the therapy field such as Jay Haley, Chloe Madanes, Luigi Boscolo and William Glasser. In addition to her clinical training and experience, Holly has managed several programs and received numerous awards for her leadership in the United States and Germany. As an international trainer and consultant, Holly has provided training on various topics such as trauma and addiction, Motivational Interviewing, adolescent development and treating adolescent substance abuse, developing trauma-informed services and creating effective treatment systems for women on welfare.

Judy Crane
Judy Crane, LMHC

Founder and Executive Director of The Refuge-A Healing Place with over 20 years experience in residential and out-patient practices; hypnotherapist and specialist for healing sexual trauma and addiction.

Pat Dechello
Pat DeChello, PhD, RPH, LCSW, MSW

An internationally recognized clinical social worker, clinical psychologist, Hypnotherapist and chemical dependency treatment specialist with more than 30 years of experience. He is the author of 29 books and numerous articles in the mental health and chemical dependency fields and is the founder and senior partner of D & S Associates, an international training and consulting company serving the mental health and substance abuse treatment fields.

Phil Diaz
Phil Diaz, MSW

In private practice specializing in the treatment of addiction and trauma at Lifescape Solutions in Delray Beach, Florida, Phil is the founding director of Project Rainbow, the first center for young children of alcoholics. A social worker with more than thirty-five years of experience in drug prevention, treatment and child abuse and trauma; he is also a founding board member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, and the founding chairperson of the National Drug Prevention League. His work has appeared in Women’s Day, USA Today, and Focus on the Family. He is the co-author, with Patricia O’Gorman, of several ground-breaking titles, including their most recent collaboration Healing Trauma through Self-Parenting: The Codependency Connection.

Nancy Fox-Kilgore
Nancy Fox-Kilgore, MS

A frequent speaker and a university continuing education teacher, Nancy specializes in PTSD and various forms of family abuse. She is a faculty member for GAPRA, the Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression, and consults for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, and California Alcohol and Drug Department. She wrote Every Eighteen Seconds and The Source Book for Working with Battered Women, both of which serve as national models for battered women's shelters, agencies, and university studies, and for continuing education certification for police officers, psychologists, and social workers. Her most recent title is Girl in the Water: A True Story of Sibling Abuse.

 
Sarah Gentry, MS

Clinical Director of the Delray Recovery Center where her Creative Healing Program is implemented campus wide; presented nationally on genders specific issues and addiction treatment. She maintained a private practice in West Palm Beach for the past six years.

 
John Giordano, CCJS, MAC, CAP

An author and former radio host, John is the President and Program Director of Holistic Addiction Treatment Program in North Miami Beach, Florida. John is a recovering addict who celebrated 22 years of continuous recovery. He has been the recipient of many distinguished awards, such as the Martin Luther King Award, and the Homeless Humanitarian Award.

Rokelle Lerner
Rokelle Lerner

Bestselling author and Clinical Director of InnerPath Retreats at Cottonwood Tucson, Rokelle has received numerous awards for her work with children and families including Esquire Magazine’s “Top 100 Women in the U.S. Who Are Changing the Nation,” and the National Association of Children of Alcoholics lifetime achievement award for her work with ACoAs.

Dug McGuirk
Dug McGuirk

Chief Lifestyle and Transformation Officer at Palm Partners Recovery Center, Dug is a Master Practitioner/Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), a speaker & trainer for Tony Robbins and a contributing author to Multiple Streams of Inspiration.

Don Meichenbaum
Donald Meichenbaum, PhD

Distinguished professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, from which he took early retirement 17 years ago. Dr. Meichenbaum is presently research director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention, Miami, Florida. He is one of the founders of cognitive behavior therapy. In a survey of clinicians, Dr. Meichenbaum was voted "one of the 10 most influential psychotherapists of the 20th century." He has presented in all 50 U.S. states and internationally and published extensively.

Pat O'Gorman
Pat O'Gorman, PhD

Author of The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power, and 7 other books including Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting, Dr. O'Gorman is known for her work with women, trauma, children of alcoholics, and substance abuse. She is consulting on the development of resiliency-focused approaches for Lifescape Solutions, in Delray Beach, Florida. A former Director of the Division of Prevention for NIAAA, director of a rape crises center, and a co-founder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, she has also worked in child welfare.

 

Bill O’Hanlon
Bill O’Hanlon, MS, LMFT

Author or coauthor of thirty-six books that have been translated into fifteen languages, including The Change Your Life Book, Pathways to Spirituality: Connection, Wholeness and Pathways to Spirituality: Connection, Wholeness, and Possibility for Therapist and Client. Bill has appeared on a variety of radio and television programs including Oprah and Today. A top-rated presenter at many national conferences since 1977, Bill has given more than 2,500 talks around the world, and was selected as the Outstanding Mental Health Educator of the Year in 2001 by the New England Educational Institute. Bill is a clinical member of AAMFT and winner of the 2003 New Mexico AAMFT Distinguished Service Award. A Board Member of the American Psychotherapy Association, by whom he was recognized in 2008 for outstanding dedication and commitment to the mental health field.

Pat Pizzo
Pat Pizzo, BS, BCFE

Director of Toxicology at Alere Toxicology Services, Inc., Pat has worked as a chemist in the Toxicology Lab for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. and is a member of the Federal Drug Testing Board, Inspector for the National Laboratory Certification Program and the College of American Pathologist Forensic Urine Drug Testing Program.

 
Barbara Schmidt

With over 30 years of the study of religion, sacred text, psychology, meditation, and self-help and with nearly 10 years of teaching Barb founded the not-for-profit Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life as an organization that provides educational and inspirational opportunities for individuals to create a happy, loving, peaceful life. In 2001, Barb partnered with the Peace Studies program at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida to promote dialogue and guidance for individuals seeking peace within themselves and their communities. She is the author of The Practice: A Way of Life.

 
Dave Smith

A Buddhist meditation teacher and addiction treatment specialist Dave was trained to teach meditation by Noah Levine; founder of Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. As a long time Buddhist practitioner and recovering addict, he has been working closely with recovering addicts for the last five years. Dave has extensive experience bringing meditative interventions into jails, prisons, youth detention and addiction treatment facilities. He is the guiding teacher and program director of the Against the Stream Nashville Meditation Center. Dave teaches over 250 meditation classes and workshops each year.

Jodi Star
Jodi Star, MD

A Consulting Psychiatrist with Seaside Palm Beach, Dr. Star is a clinician and academician in the field of Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry. Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychosomatic Medicine and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Dr. Star has taken part in numerous clinical trials and has conducted research in the areas of: Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Mood Disorders, Eating Disorders, and “hands on” psychotherapy methods for children, adolescents, and adults.

Reid Wilson, MD
Reid Wilson, PhD

Author and lecturer, Dr. Wilson is the Director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Wilson has written two well-received publications in the field of anxiety, translated into nine languages and endorsed by the most highly esteemed professionals in the field. He is co-author, with Lynn Lyons, of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children (Sept 2013), author of Don't Panic Third Edition: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks and the coauthor of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions. He is also the coauthor of Achieving Comfortable Flight, a self-help kit for the fearful flier. He designed and served as lead psychologist for American Airlines' first national program for the fearful flier and served on the Board of Directors of Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) for twelve years.

Mary Woods
Mary Woods, RNC, LADC

Past President of NAADAC - The Association for Addiction Professionals and CEO of Westbridge Community Services in Manchester, New Hampshire.

 

Conference Agenda

9:00–10:00 am Thursday, Nov 7th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science

Joan Borysenko, PhD

The new brain science is an exciting window into the nature of consciousness, emotional balance, physical health, and the interconnection of subtle energies—systems of information—we call the mind. The new field of interpersonal neurobiology describes how the mind is both embodied in our brain and nervous system as well as embedded in our relationships. The quality of those relationships—whether they evoke love, compassion, and mindfulness or fear, anger, and constriction affect us profoundly.

10:00–10:30 am Thursday, Nov 7th Refreshment Break
10:30–11:30 pm Thursday, Nov 7th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

The Solution-Oriented Approach to Change: Finding the Answer Within

Bill O’Hanlon, MS

Recent years have seen a shift in focus from what is wrong with people (diagnosis of deficits and damage) to what is right with people (strengths, competence and abilities). This approach has been validated by recent research findings about the plasticity of the brain and on what makes us happy and gives our lives meaning. Translating this research into practical interventions isn’t always obvious. This session will help professionals to more rapidly join with clients and help them change. It can make your work easier, more cooperative and more joyful.

11:30 am–12:30 pm Thursday, Nov 7th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Understanding and Treating Trauma

Patrick DeChello, PhD

Very few things can affect an individual as much as being a victim of trauma. The results can be changes in neurochemistry, behaviors that are designed to numb or avoid re-experiencing of the trauma such as substance abuse, Obsessive Compulsive behaviors and/or psychological such as PTSD, anxiety or a host of other psychological problems. Current research indicates that clients may have experienced a trauma which later becomes manifest in a myriad of pathologies such as addictions to drugs and alcohol, food, sex, self-injury and many more. This session will explore this and offer practical input on effective treatment strategies.

12:30–1:45 pm Thursday, Nov 7th Lunch On Your Own
2:00–3:30 pm Thursday, Nov 7th CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

The Cutting Edge of Mind-Body Medicine: From Immunology to Neuroscience

Joan Borysenko, PhD

The most important determinant of physical health is mental health. In this workshop, participants will learn how adverse childhood experiences set the stage for chronic illness and substance abuse later in life through epigenetic changes, neurochemistry, immune function, and brain wiring. We will examine how evidence-based psychological interventions can rewire neuro-hormonal circuitry and help to restore both physical and mental homeostasis. Some of the interventions covered include the modification of explanatory style, stress hardiness and resilience training, narrative medicine, meditation and mindfulness techniques, imagery, and cognitive approaches. There will be a focus on how to optimize the therapeutic bond.

You Can’t Just Talk It Out of Them —The Neurobiology of the Addicted Mind

Ashish Bhatt, MD

This workshop presents a multi-modal approach to the physical and neurobiological aspects in addiction as well as the emotional and psychological. The underlying neurobiological etiology and mechanics of addiction will be addressed. We will learn to more fully question the diagnoses previously given to “co-occurring” clients.

Out of the Blue: Six Non-Medication Ways to Relieve Depression

Bill O’Hanlon, MS

Recent research and insights have given a new understanding of depression, not as a deficit in chemicals, but as a problem with neurogenesis (new brain growth and connection). Antidepressants may work by promoting brain cell and neuronal growth and connection, but there are other ways, within the grasp of therapists, counselors and addiction specialists, which can make an immediate and lasting difference in helping relieve depression. This session will give three simple methods for relieving depression.

Assessment of Risk, Self Destructive Behaviors and Suicidality

Pat DeChello, PhD

This workshop will provide clinicians with an overview of the necessary tools to perform accurate and effective mental status examinations and suicide assessments. A review of four major mental status assessment methods—observations, conversation, exploration and testing—will be covered.

3:30–4:00 pm Thursday, Nov 7th Refreshment Break
4:00–5:30 pm Thursday, Nov 7th CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

The Resilient Woman: Helping Women in Treatment Fight their Girly Thoughts Using the 7 Steps to Personal Power

Patricia O’Gorman, PhD

We are most successful in life when we can achieve a balance between our two vital sources of strength-self and other, but achieving this can be quite a challenge, made more difficult by our girly thoughts, those negative societal messages we internalize and then need to medicate. Learn how to foster resiliency for women in treatment-helping them develop conscious resiliency using The 7 Steps to Personal Power.

Creatures of Addict: Six Critical Needs for Successful Recovery and Beyond

Dug McGuirk

This workshop is an interactive lecture on unpacking addiction as it relates to coping skills to deal with underlying issues and behavior patterns using powerful insights on the variety of ways people meet their needs. Participants will learn that drugs and alcohol were not the original problem, they were the solution. If the underlying issue is not addressed, relapse is certain.

Healing the Heart with Meditation

Holly Cook, LPC
Dave Smith

It is a fact of life that many people struggle with difficult emotional states in early recovery or therapy, but do little in terms of developing skills to deal with them. Yet even when our emotions are creating problems for us, it is within most people’s capacity to arouse positive feelings to manage them. Mindfulness meditation has found its way into many treatment centers and in therapy offices. This workshop introduces the meditation practice of Loving-kindness, a meditation practice which brings about positive attitudinal changes as it systematically develops the quality of ‘loving-acceptance’. It acts, as it were, as a form of self-psychotherapy, a way of healing the troubled mind to free itself.

The New DSM 5: What Every Clinician Needs to Know

Pat DeChello, PhD

The DSM 5 promises to be the greatest change in diagnosis since the DSM III. Moving from diagnostic classifications based on differential diagnoses to the use of dimensional descriptors, the end of the multiaxial system, a redefinition of mental illness, the inclusion of behavior addictions, a reformulation of the trauma and the personality disorders, and the consolidation of the autism based disorders could well change psychiatry as we have known it. The manual has been released and it is raising many eyebrows.

5:30–6:45 pm Thursday, Nov 7th Dinner on your own
7:00–9:00 pm Thursday, Nov 7th EVENING PROGRAM(optional)

Breathing “Soul” Back Into Psychotherapy

Bill O’Hanlon, MS

Soul and spirituality have often been left out of therapeutic work primarily because therapists haven’t been shown a respectful, non-intrusive way to bring it in to change work. But leaving out this important resource in people’s lives is impositional in another way. This session will provide a clear overview, definition of spirituality and provide easy to understand and use tools for spiritual assessment and intervention.

8:30–9:00 am Friday, Nov 8th CONFERENCE REGISTRATION For Daily Attendees
9:00–10:00 am Friday, Nov 8th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Individuals with Impulse Control Problems: Core Tasks of Psychotherapy

Donald Meichenbaum, PhD

This presentation will demonstrate applications of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) with applications to impulse control and related therapeutic issues. The nature of decision-making and implications for understanding impulse control problems will be addressed along with specific ways to bolster self-regulatory behaviors.

10:00–10:30 am Friday, Nov 8th Refreshment Break
10:30 am –11:30 am Friday, Nov 8th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

The Brain Fix: Using Neuroscience as a Metaphor for Recovery

Ralph E. Carson, PhD

With a “fixed” brain, you can improve your quality of life by thinking more clearly, enjoying a sharper memory, feeling happier and less stressed and being in control of your habits. This presentation takes on the challenge of explaining how your diet provides the much needed ingredients for maintenance and repair, and will reveal the latest breakthroughs that nutritional science has to offer recovery.

11:30 am–12:30 pm Friday, Nov 8th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Narcissistic Wounds: The Challenge of Recovery and Strategies for Healing

Rokelle Lerner

Many addicts suffer from false pride, entitlement and grandiosity that unfortunately do not disappear with sobriety. This narcissism interferes with personal and professional relationships that are so filled with conflict and pain that relapse often occurs. This lecture will examine the relational consequences of narcissism and offer tools to clinicians who recognize this destructive dynamic in treatment and recovery.

12:30–1:45 pm Friday, Nov 8th Lunch On Your Own
2:00–3:30 pm Friday, Nov 8th CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Healing the Loss of Dreams: Strategies for Resolving Loss

Rokelle Lerner

The loss of a dream is difficult to articulate and clinicians often miss their impact. When dreams are shattered it causes inexplicable grief that others may have difficulty comprehending. For every tangible loss there is always a dream attached and until those dreams have been identified and processed, losses will never be resolved and optimism is thwarted.This lecture focuses on specific tools that allow clients to move beyond loss.

Bullying Linked To Sibling Abuse: The New Epidemic

Nancy Fox-Kilgore, MS

Several research studies have linked sibling abuse to the upsurge of bullying. Bullying actually starts in the American home. Sibling abuse has affected countless individuals adults. It is largely unrecognized and remains behind the closed doors of “family privacy.” It is the most under reported and least understood of all forms of family violence.

Core Tasks of Psychotherapy: Achieving Expertise in Practice

Don Meichenbaum, PhD

Following a brief discussion of the nature of expertise, this presentation will consider the implications for psychotherapy. We will demonstrate the Core Tasks of Psychotherapy and how they can be implemented with challenging clients and will offer a Case Conceptualization Model that informs both assessment and treatment decision-making.

The Role of Impulsivity in Treatment of Dual-Diagnosis Patients

Jodi Star, MD

Recent studies suggest that impairment in impulsivity can play a critical role in initiation and continuation of substance use. Eating disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and mania all impact a patient’s impulsivity. Review medical definitions of impulsivity, identify these in dual diagnoses patients, learn multi-model interventions using interactive techniques and examine clinical cases.

3:30–4:00 pm Friday, Nov 8th Refreshment Break
4:00–5:30 pm Friday, Nov 8th CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Treatment of Individuals with PTSD, Complex PTSD and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders

Don Meichenbaum, PhD

A Case Conceptualization Model will be offered that informs assessment and treatment decision-making. The core psychotherapeutic tasks for implementing integrative treatment with clients with PTSD, Complex PTSD and comorbid psychiatric disorders will be presented. A Constructive Narrative Perspective will be used to frame a strengths-based intervention approach.

Healing Trauma through Spiritual Growth Therapy (SGT)

Phil Diaz, MSW
Paul Alleva, MSW

SGT utilizes ancient philosophy, new age spirituality, traditional psychotherapy, logo therapy, hypnotherapy, neuroscience and quantum mechanics to create a new model for healing from mental illness and addiction. This innovative and therapeutic approach treats the whole person; the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional self; and is constructed and grounded in pre-Socratic philosophical principles, and current scientific data regarding mind-body theory. This workshop will teach participants new tools for healing their clients.

Drug Use Today: “Legal Highs”, Designer Drugs and Emerging Natural Substances

Pat Pizzo, BS, BCFE

This session will introduce attendees to federally non-regulated drugs available on the internet to include the many synthetic marijuana metabolites, bath salts, methamphetamine-like drugs and others. Updates on where they can be tested and cost of analysis will also be discussed.

Food and Mood: When Food and Eating is a Problem in Life

Ralph E. Carson, PhD

Many emotions and behaviors are tied into the eating disorder patient’s relationship with food. This presentation deals with neurophysiological basis of how trigger foods control a person’s life to the point it takes on characteristics of an obsession or even an addiction. A recommended intervention plan will be covered as well..

5:30–6:45 pm Friday, Nov 8st DINNER on your own
7:00–9:00 pm Friday, Nov 8st EVENING PROGRAM/FILM FESTIVAL

Bob and the Monster

Mary Woods, RNC LADC

Six years in the making, this documentary film follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest, through his life-threatening struggle with addiction, to his transformation into an influential and controversial addiction counselor. Bob and the Monster crafts contemporary footage, animation and compelling interviews with archival performances and personal videos from Bob’s past to reveal the complex layers of this troubled but hopeful soul. (Please note: No CE credit offered for this Friday evening session) (Please note: No CE credit offered for this Friday evening session.)

8:30–9:00 am Saturday, Nov 9th CONFERENCE REGISTRATION For Daily Attendees
9:00–10:00 am Saturday, Nov 9th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Winning the Anxiety Game: Brief Strategic Treatment for the Anxiety Disorders

Reid Wilson, PhD

The anxiety disorders manipulate people by injecting rules into consciousness, then using that set of laws to take over mental territory. Phobias, panic, social anxiety, generalized anxiety and OCD will be discussed and treatment strategies explored.

10:00–10:30 am Saturday, Nov 9th Refreshment Break
10:30–11:30 am Saturday, Nov 9th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Thou Shalt Not: Unraveling Moral Injury, The Soul Wound

Judy Crane, LMHC

It is the essence of humanity to seek a path to live and make sense of our existence. Over the time and space of our species we have created codes to honor, commandments, tenets, principles to live by, paths to follow and a Purpose for our lives. This presentation will explore the value and imperative of such a “path” of Thou Shall and Thou Shalt Not, and the pain and consequences for the perception of the transgression from that path. We will focus not only on this Moral Injury as our military experience it but also on this Moral Injury as an integral part of the trauma spectrum and the urgency to integrate evidenced based modalities into treatment.

11:30 am–12:30 pm Saturday, Nov 9th KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Silent Sons & Perfect Daughters: Appreciating Gender Differences in Treatment

Robert Ackerman, PhD

This presentation will focus on developing an appreciation for gender differences in treatment/counseling. Additionally it will focus on how dysfunctional families affect gender development and, in turn, to assess how this development affects personal change for women and men. An appreciation for gender implications in alcohol and drug usage patterns, etiological differences, relapse and recovery issues, and associated problems will be addressed. This session will not treat women and men from dysfunctional families or addicted individuals as victims, but rather as survivors with strengths.

 
12:30–1:45 pm Saturday, Nov 9sup>th Lunch On Your Own
2:00–3:30 pm Saturday, Nov 9th CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Creative Healing and Recovery: The Use of Creative Healing to Foster Emotional Well Being

Sarah Gentry, MS

In this experiential workshop clinicians will learn techniques to help their clients express feelings often difficult to put into words. Creative healing is a powerful tool for recovering people to have in their arsenal. Creative healing techniques allow people to express emotions directly and effectively and expand their ability to access emotions.

Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Reid Wilson, PhD

This session will explore the fundamental structure of worry—how it ignores data that isn’t negative, how it squeezes out room for corrective information, and how it gives rise to erroneous beliefs. Stemming from this knowledge, participants will learn a set of therapeutic strategies based on the latest research.

Evidence-Based Holistic Approach to Addiction and Mental Health Treatment

John Giordano, CAP

This workshop demonstrates the integration of the most current evidence-based holistic modalities with the best of the traditional treatment model. The session will also cover the utilization of group/individual/family therapy with nutrition, massage, acupuncture, natural/ibogaine detoxification, yoga, and hyperbaric oxygenation.

The Emotional and Behavioral Impact on Children/Adolescents Living in Dysfunctional Families

Robert Ackerman, PhD

This workshop will focus on the emotional and behavioral issues and problems for children who are living in a dysfunctional family. It will emphasize a developmental approach to children and will address why children in dysfunctional families are not all affected in the same way. Intervention and the development of achievement and resiliency skills in children will be included as well as gender implications for intervention.

3:30–4:00 pm Saturday, Nov 9th Refreshment Break
4:00–5:30 pm Saturday, Nov 9TH CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Change your Thinking; Change your Life: Break Negative Patterns, Conditioned Behaviors and Experience Permanent Change

Barbara Schmidt

Too often today we are at the mercy of the external world and the thoughts in our minds. In this workshop you will learn how to incorporate The Practice into daily life. This set of spiritual tools, starting with a five minute morning meditation aligns our mind, body and heart, as we begin our day. We want to find peace in our lives but we don’t always choose things that will bring us peace, even when we know bett

 

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