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“Rebirth Of The Spirit, Recovery From Addiction”
Addictions and process disorders have profound effects on families, friends, work groups, churches, and organizations. Any system can be pulled into dysfunction, and the systemic impact can range from inconvenient to tragic. This conference focuses on these impacts and the treatment needs of these groups. Each population will be addressed by experts, exploring its treatment needs and presenting useful therapeutic techniques and strategies. These tools may be utilized with appropriate clients in your practice immediately. There will be breakout sessions to learn psychodrama, sculpting, and other experiential techniques utilized with many of the speakers' clients.
Who Should Attend? This conference is not only for clinicians, school counselors, teachers, and graduate students, but also for members of the pastoral community, seminary students and faculty.
CEU’s available, including one hour of ethics!
Treatment Centers Exhibiting
Advanced Recovery Center, Delray Beach, Fla.*
Bridging the Gaps, Winchester, Va.
Caron Foundation, Wernersville, Pa.
Cirque Lodge, Sundance, Utah
Coleman Institute, Richmond, Va.
Cumberland Heights, Nashville, Tenn.*
Foundations Associates, Memphis, Tenn.
Las Vegas Recovery Center, Las Vegas, Nev.
Life Center of Galax, Galax, Va.
New Directions for Women, Costa Mesa, Ca.
Orchid Recovery Cntr / Women, Palm Springs, Fla.
Phoenix Recovery Center, Edgewood, Md.
Pine Grove Next Step, Hattiesburg, Miss.*
Summer House, Miami, Fla.
Saint Christopher’s, Baton Rouge, La.
Talbott Recovery, Atlanta, Ga.
William J. Farley Center, Williamsburg, Va.*
Alldredge Academy, Davis, W. Va.
The Healing Place, Richmond, Va.
*Providing speakers
For further information contact:
?Bill Maher, CADC, ACI Family Intervention Center, LLC @ 804 539 7450
Tracie Zody, LCSW Transitions in Recovery, LLC @ 804 873 5488
Gail Santarelli, LPC or Jay Maynard, LPC Rich. IOP, PLC @ 804 320 8032
Chuck Adcock, LCSW, Family Counseling Center @ 804 354 1996 or Bob Skalleberg, LPC @ 804 564 4359
Conference Schedule:
Day 1: Friday, November 10, 2006
8:30—9:00 am Registration
9:00-9:20 am
Opening Address
Michael Cartwright, Founder of Foundation Associates, Nashville, Tn.
9:20-11:00 am KeyNote Speaker:
Addiction Interaction Disorder—Understanding Multiple Addictions
Patrick Carnes, PhD, Director of the Gentle Path Program at Pine Grove Behavioral Center
Five out of six addicts actually have a myriad of addictions, compulsions and deprivations, a complex systemic problem called “addiction interaction disorder.” Participants will learn an addiction interaction screen and other tools to help clients.
11:15am-12:15 pm
Women In Treatment & Early Recover
Penelope Ziegler, MD, FASAM, Medical Director Emeritus of Williamsburg Place and the William J. Farley Center
Our culture applies a double standard to the addictive behavior of women. Shame becomes the defining characteristic of a woman’s addiction, creating barriers in treatment and recovery that must be addressed at every stage. Dr. Ziegler brings a career of teaching, research, direct treatment, expertise and compassion.
1:15-2:15 pm
Update on Medications in Recovery
Martin Buxton, MD & Ron Gaertner, MD
From active addiction through long-term recovery, psychotropic medications may be useful in various situations. Advances in psychopharmacology along with our advancing understanding of the impact of trauma and its related co-occurring disorders make this a rapidly evolving topic.
2:30-3:30 pm
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Boundaries and Ethical Practice
Rodney Adams, Attorney
The routines and procedures of a clinician’s daily work can create a false sense of security regarding boundaries, ethics, and standards of practice. Therapists need to know the best resources for clarifying boundary issues and dealing with problems if they occur.
3:45-5:00 pm
How Trauma and Addiction Connect…and What is CPTSD??
Jerry Boriskin, PhD, CAS
Complex PTSD will be explained, compared, and contrasted with PTSD. Understanding its dynamics and adaptive functions, its crucial role in the etiology of co-occurring disorders becomes apparent. Dr. Boriskin designed and co-founded the Advanced Recovery Center for addiction and CPTSD.
Day 2: Saturday, November 12, 2006
?9:00am-12:15pm and 1:15-3:30pm
Kids’ Power—From Risk to Resilience
Jerry Moe, MA, Director of the Children’s Program, Betty Ford Center
Children in addicted families are subject to an array of dysfunctional dynamics and are at risk for lifelong problems with self and others. This is an exciting opportunity for 15 children (ages 7-12) to be introduced to addiction awareness. Experiential group work has a unique power to help kid’s correct distorted messages and begin to heal. Two clinicians will be selected to attend this all-day track.
9:00-10:30 am
Sexual Addiction/Compulsivity 101
Stephanie Carnes, PhD
The disorder will be discussed from historical and psychiatric perspectives. DSM diagnostic criteria for sexual compulsivity will be examined and related to the addict’s experience of the condition. Formal criteria for sexual compulsivity will be illuminated using art therapy drawings from patients. The impact on the family will be discussed.
10:45 am-12:15 pm
The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety
Allen Berger, PhD.
First written as a letter by Bill Wilson to a depressed friend, this article was later published in the AA Grapevine. He identified the deepest source of his own depression as an “almost absolute dependence—on people and circumstances to supply me with prestige, security, and the like....” Insightful and farsighted, Bill’s article parallels psychological concepts such as emotional fusion and dependence, and also emotional center of gravity.
1:15-3:30 pm Break-Out Sessions
Family Recovery, Sexual Compulsivity, and Disclosure Issues
Stefanie Carnes, PhD
For the family of a sex addict, the movement from denial and co-addiction into a recovery process is especially sensitive and volatile. Disclosure of the addiction involves honest discussion of the sexually compulsive behavior. Guidelines for the clinician to facilitate a disclosure process with the spouse and children will be presented.
Gestalt Family Therapy
Allen Berger, PhD
Working with the family of a chemically dependent person illustrates an in-depth application of Gestalt Experiential Family Therapy. This powerful here-and-now approach in working with families was originally developed by Dr. Walter Kempler. Analysis of a videotaped family interview by Dr. Kempler will be detailed, “working points” and their use will be described, and the therapist will learn more about the use of self in working with families.