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Addictive Behavior as the Problem
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Objectives
- Utilize clinical strategies to alleviate symptoms of shame in clients.
- Integrate Sensorimotor Psychotherapy interventions that teach clients how to regulate their nervous systems and alleviate symptoms of anxiety.
- Analyze the efficacy of cognitive interventions to improve treatment outcomes.
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20/03/2016
The Neurophysiology of Addiction & Brain Based Relapse Prevention
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Objectives
- Explain to clients the fundamental brain changes that occur with addiction.
- Develop a treatment approach that addresses the five fundamental tasks of recovery.
- Practice a comprehensive systematic relapse prevention plan.
- Implement the four essential strategies in the relapse prevention plan.
- Utilize cognitive and experiential techniques to increase the client’s motivation to prevent relapse.
- Identify clients who are likely to relapse from those that are not likely to relapse.
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15/01/2015
The Neurophysiology of Addiction & Brain Based Relapse Prevention Part 2
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15/01/2015
A Harm-Reduction Approach to Addictions
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Objectives
- Assess how addictive behaviour reflects the interplay of biology, meaning, habit, and social context
- Determine why the harm-reduction stance is essential to effective treatment across the spectrum of addictive severity
- Evaluate seven therapeutic tasks that combine relational psychodynamic, CBT, and mindfulness interventions to address addictive behaviours and the whole person.
- Use strategies to address risky behaviours including Urge Surfing, Unwrapping the Urge, Microanalysis, Embracing Ambivalence, Decisional Balance, and the Ideal Use Plan.
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22/03/2019
The iPorn Universe
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Objectives
- Articulate for clients the differences between porn use and the signs and symptoms of addiction.
- Characterize and address the trends of modern porn addiction that can negatively affect clients, such as interpersonal conflict, inability to become aroused by real sex, dysphoria, an increase in thrill-seeking behaviors, and self-isolation.
- Analyze the neurobiological mechanisms of behavioural/process addictions, and integrate salient treatment approaches into your practice, including CBT-Internet Addiction, holistic lifestyle attunements, and elements of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction.
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23/03/2019
Addiction Treatment and Couples Therapy: Using Emotionally Focused Therapy to Strengthen Sobriety
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Objectives
- Discover how to use micro-tracking to identify and make explicit the rigid negative attachment-based patterns that perpetuate relational distress in addictive relationships
- Discover how to systematically engage emotion to create bonding moments that support the addict in reaching out to their partner rather than their substance/behavior of choice
- Discover how to apply powerful attachment-based interventions as an effective alternative to the familiar modes of confronting denial that often fail and trigger relapse
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25/03/2017
Grief and Addiction
As a result of the opioid epidemic, the United States saw its largest recorded increase in overdose deaths last year, which is now officially the leading cause of death among adults under 50.
What do we need to do differently for clients grieving for a loved one who overdosed? And how do therapists themselves deal with the loss of an addicted client?
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Objectives
- Determine why addiction grief is often weighted in self-blame and guilt
- Determine how to help loved ones sort through the shame, isolation, and the roles they played in an addiction death
- Assess tools for helping clients deal with addiction grief and the “if only’s” that accompany it, such as responsibility clarification and separating out the loved one’s voice from the addiction
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24/03/2018
Telehealth Treatment of Addictive Behavior with Janina Fisher, PhD
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Objectives
- Determine the relationship between the autonomic nervous system and addictive behaviour
- Appraise the ‘Abstinence/Relapse Cycle’
- Implement mindfulness and somatic techniques to help clients regulate their nervous systems
- Plan resources that support clients’ recovery from their addictions
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01/06/2020