IAODAPCA Spring Conference 2008

Schedule for Wednesday, March 26th

Continuing Education Units Awarded - 6

7:00am - 8:00am	Registration, Networking and Continental Breakfast
7:30am – 5:00pm	Stern's Bookstore
7:30am – 5:00pm	Exhibits
8:15am - 8:30am	Welcome Address: IAODAPCA President, Lawrence Dunbar IAODAPCA Executive Director, Bill Johnson
8:30am – 9:30am	Plenary Session – William White, MA "The Culture of Recovery in America: Recent Developments and Their Significance" For almost three centuries people recovering from severe alcohol and other drug problems have created healing sanctuaries to share their experience, strength, and hope and to meet specific needs they faced initiating and sustaining their recovery journeys. History suggests that when a vacuum of unmet needs reaches critical mass, recovering people, their families, and visionary professionals coalesce into movements that birth new structures of recovery support. That critical mass has been reached again, and the resulting scope and depth of recovery community building activities in America is without historical precedent. This presentation will explore these recent recovery community building activities and the influence they will exert on the future of addiction treatment.
9:00am – 4:30pm	"Advanced Training of Trainers" – Day Two
9:45am – 12:00pm	Workshops 1-6
Workshop 1 "Stigma Piled on Stigma: Healing the Impact of Multiple Stigmatized Factors on Adolescents" – Pamela Woll, MA, CADP Stigma is a powerful weapon, and adolescence is a time of great vulnerability. The effects of stigma on youth can include profound shame and self-loathing, rejection of help, reinforcement of negative life patterns, and discrimination that can limit opportunities lifelong. This interactive workshop explores the stigma aimed at youth with substance use disorders, mental illness, and/or troubled family circumstances, some of the effects of stigma on their self-concept, life choices and access to help and opportunities, and ways in which providers can help heal the stigma and its effects. Workshop 2 "Gambling 101: Identification, Assessment and Referral" – Randee McGraw, CSADC, CADP, MISA II, PCGC, CCJP, NCRS, BRI II This workshop will provide basic information regarding pathological gambling. Participants will learn how to identify, assess and refer pathological gamblers to treatment. Workshop 3 "Mindful Sobriety: The Role of Self-Transcendence in Addiction Recovery" - Daniel Angres, MD An enhanced capacity to be fully present or mindful through specific meditative practices allows clinicians to more intensively address the spiritual aspects of their clients’ recovery while remaining secular in their approach. Through cultivating mindfulness, clients appear to strengthen their spirituality while benefiting from the stress reduction and anti-craving properties resultant from this practice. This workshop will examine the treatment tract using some modified aspects of a well known mindfulness-based stress reduction course which provides a disciplined and organized approach to teaching mindfulness. This presentation will discuss the use of Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) to assist in treatment planning. Case presentations will be used to demonstrate the clinical application of this approach. Workshop 4 "Confronting Anti-Social Thinking Errors" - Kim Alberts, MHS, CADC, LCPC Antisocial Personality Disorders fill our prisons and our treatment centers and impact families and homes. Beginning to confront and redirect these errors in thinking is vital to the treatment process and to stopping the ongoing cycles of abuse, violence, and substance use. Also included in this workshop is a discussion of the development of this personality disorder. Workshop 5 "“National Certified Recovery Specialist (NCRS) Track" – James Russell, CADC, NCRS, MISA II and Marcia Van Natta, BA, CADC, MISA II This workshop is an overview of the National Certified Recovery Specialist (NCRS) credential. It will cover the benefits of holding the credential and how to obtain the NCRS. Workshop 6 "Addictions Relationships and the 12-Step Connection" – Stella M. Nicholson, MA, LCPC, CMADC, MAC This workshop will provide counselors with hands on tools to assist their clients through their turbulent relationships. Most recovering clients relapse into old behaviors trying to rescue their partners. Clients also have a tendency to stay far too long in unstable relationships jeopardizing their own recovery. By utilizing a modified version of the Twelve Steps that relate to relationships, counselors can teach clients how to take care of themselves and have satisfying and healthy relationships. Current research findings will also be explored.
12:00pm - 1:00pm	LUNCH
1:15pm - 4:30pm	Workshops 7-12
Workshop 7 "Strength Based Supervision in AODA Treatment" - W. Andrew Young, MA, NCC, CADC Recent theories in counseling and communication suggest that advice, hypotheses, and criticism, especially in the context of a hierarchical system, tend to stifle open communication and creativity. Yet clinical supervisors typically find themselves in an organizational hierarchy where they are expected to guide, inform, and sometimes discipline team members. This often leads to tension, or at times, even a reluctance to engage on the part of either supervisor or supervisee. Strengthbased supervision focuses on nurturing what is working well and creating an atmosphere where change is possible through self-reflection. This workshop presents a model of addictions counseling supervision that bridges organizational demands and needs with the effectiveness of a strength-based approach. Workshop 8 "Treating Traumatized Women in Recovery" - Lia Gaty, LCSW The workshop will train providers for the treatment of and recovery from the entangled issues in women with substance abuse histories who have also survived physical and sexual abuse. The workshop will educate treatment providers in recognizing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), specifically educating providers to adjust interventions for women with PTSD. The workshop is targeted toward providers whose female populations represent predicable traumatic adaptations including prison populations, alcohol and drug recovery programs, women in the sex industry and homeless women. Workshop 9 "“Developing Competence in Recovery Support" – Rhonda Keck, MS, CRSS In this workshop, participants will develop competence in the CRSS core function of Recovery Support. The workshop will focus on understanding the values and principles of strengths-oriented practice and applying those principles to the specific task of helping consumers identify options and participate fully in decision-making. Workshop 10 "Personal and Professional Development: Self Journey Towards Becoming a Phenomenal and Creative Healer" – Dr. Erika Lohmiller, Ph.D., LCPC, CADC, MISA II This interactive presentation will address self-care for healers. This workshop will present coping skills and strategies to prevent compassion fatigue and counselor burnout. The workshop will assist individuals in the helping field to really enjoy their professions and to feel more enriched in the process of working with others. Participants will come away with resources and tools they can use to facilitate better care for themselves which will in turn help them take better care of others. Workshop 11 "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Basics" - Kim Pinkston, MA, LCPC, CADC, ADTR, GLCMA This workshop will focus on giving participants an understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) theory and terminology. In addition, the importance of CBT as an evidence-based practice will be discussed. Workshop 12 "ICB Credentials" - Presented by IAODAPCA Operations Staff; Dianne Gutierrez and Russ Friedewald This workshop will cover professional credentials offered through IAODAPCA, Inc. The workshop will include an explanation of the credentials, the application process and maintaining the credentials. Attend and learn how you can broaden your horizons and serve others by becoming a credentialed professional in the many areas offered by IAODAPCA.
7:00pm – 8:00pm	Open AA Meeting