Thursday, July 20
PLENARY
Addiction and Suicide
Richard Ries, M.D., Director of Addictions Division, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
The Plenary will bring together and present the data linking addiction and suicide in various populations, and make the case that suicide is every bit as much “addictions territory” as that it is “mental health territory”, as it is usually thought to be. The workshop which follows will provide attendees basic methods, most of which are either consensus-based, or evidence-based on screening and intervention for suicidal patients encountered in addictions settings.
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10 A.M.-4:30 P.M.
Overview of the Assertive Community Reinforcement Approach and Assertive Continuing Care
Susan Godley, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Chestnut Health Systems, Bloomington, IL.
This workshop is designed to expose addiction professionals to an evidenced-based outpatient and a continuing care approach for adolescents. The Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA) was one of the five interventions evaluated in
the federally funded Cannabis Youth Treatment Project (CYT). The Assertive Continuing Care (ACC) approach has been evaluated with NIAAA and NIDA funding. SAMHSA CSAT will be funding replications of these models in up to 17 sites during 2006. The presentation will provide background research on the interventions, detailed descriptions and an opportunity to practice selected intervention procedures and will address the training and supervision requirements being developed for the
CSAT initiative and implementation issues.
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From a Rock to Enlightenment
Boyd Sharp, MS, LPC, Clinical Consultant/Supervisor, Eastern Oregon Alcoholism Foundation’s Correctional Treatment Program, Umatilla, OR.
This workshop will explore the Map of Consciousness as defined by David Hawken+; the Hierarchy of Emotions by Esther and Jerry Hicks and the Thinking Pattern Continuum by Boyd Sharp. It will discuss the vibrational spiritual energy of all things including the thoughts of people. This workshop will explore and demonstrate how our thoughts have spiritual energy that controls our behavior. It will use kinesiology exercises to demonstrate how all things weaken or strengthen us. It will further address the place of spirituality in our treatment methods and how evidence-based and best practices (science)
can only go so far in treating our clients. It will look at how to Forgive and Forget is good, but how to Forgive and Surrender it to a Higher Power moves beyond science and into enlightenment. It will explore the spiritual foundation and beginning of the Alcoholic’s Anonymous program and how this is just as important today as it was in 1935.
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Compassion Fatigue
David Powell, Ph.D, President International Center for Health Concerns, East Ganby, CT.
Working with people, being a caregiver, can be a stressful job, with pressures to do more with less, to reduce costs, to advance professionally without funding for training. Caregivers feel overworked and underpaid. Counseling people has never been an easy job, dealing daily with life problems, such as alcohol and drug abuse, life-threatening problems, health and medical problems of clients, etc. Compassion fatigue is a leading cause of burnout in the healthcare industry, costing millions of dollars in sick time, disability and staff turnover annually. This workshop provides a new vision for how to look at work and compassion and their roles in our lives. Based upon Dr. Powell's book Playing Life's Second Half: A Man's Guide to Moving from Success to Significance, this course provides spiritual principles which can guide the work of any health care professional.
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10 A.M. - 12 P.M.
Addiction and Suicide
Richard Ries, M.D., Director Addictions Division, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
This workshop will be follow up to the plenary session. It will provide strategies for counselors to start using right way with clients in crisis and having suicidal ideation.
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Role Playing and Behavioral Rehearsal as Evidence-Based Practice in Corrections
Peter Barbur, LPC, Principal, Fifth Avenue Counseling & Consulting, Portland, OR.
Evidence-based practice in correction settings requires a focus on behavioral change that can be measured over time. This workshop will present a brief overview of operant and social learning models of behavior acquisition and change. We will then use these models to show counselors and probation officers how to use behavior rehearsal and roleplaying to help clients practice making changes in their interpersonal behavior.
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Grief, Loss and Addictive Behaviors
Virginia Walker, Private Practitioner, Wood Village, OR.
This workshop will focus on how grief and loss influence addictive behaviors. Identifying types of losses, diversity in grieving styles, and the role of spirituality will be addressed. Clinicians will gain an understanding of how grief and loss impacts individuals throughout their lives and will learn how to provide clients with pathways to reconciliation of past and current losses.
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Underage Drinking Prevention
Pamela Erickson, Deputy Director, Oregon Partnership, Portland, OR.
The workshop will include a summary of facts on underage drinking in Oregon, a review of recommendations from the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine report “Underage Drinking, a Collective Responsibility.” It will also focus on work currently underway in enforcement, community action and statewide media including work with youth action teams.
1:30-4:30
Stopping the Methamphetamine Epidemic
Kaleen Deatherage, Director of Development, Oregon Partnership, Portland, OR.
This workshop will present a comprehensive approach to preventing and curtailing Oregon’s methamphetamine epidemic. Included are facts about the manufacture of meth, problems created including drug-endangered children and segments on using media and community action.
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Relating Attachment Disorder, Trauma and Substance Use Disorder to Trauma Informed Services
Diane Lia, Program and Policy Specialist, DHS Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Salem,OR.
In this “decade of the brain” and a national move toward recovery, resiliency, self-determination, and holistic approaches to healing, it is essential that healing professionals step outside traditional lines of practice and utilize a multi-disciplinary multi-faceted approach to treatment planning. By understanding the cause and effect process of trauma, attachment, and substance abuse we are better able to provide more effective and life-changing interventions that assist a person in their recovery process. By recognizing the web of influence in each person’s life, we are better prepared to help a client build trusting relationships, provide connection to the community, and demonstrate the importance of looking at all aspects of life and the many parts of a person’s support system. This workshop is designed to demonstrate the correlation between trauma, attachment, and substance use disorders. In 2001, the Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services published a Trauma Policy to draw attention to the importance of providing trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive services throughout Oregon. The Office recognized the overwhelming impact of trauma in the lives of a majority of clients served, and the inadvertent retraumatization of those seeking services.
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Utilizing Distress Tolerance Skills to Manage Crises
Cathy Moonshine, Ph.D, Moonshine Consulting, Portland, OR.
This workshop will review Distress Tolerance Skills module contained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. You will learn how to empower clients to effective deal with difficult situations in their lives by utilizing these skills. Effectively managing crises facilitates pro-social behavior and progress in establishing recovery. Radical Acceptance, which is synonymous with the Serenity Prayer, ground clients in knowing what and when they can change things and when they need to tolerate stressful situations. Pre-crisis & post-crisis planning will also be discussed in this workshop.
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The Changing Faces of Juvenile Justice
Wayne Scott, LC SW, Clinical Manager, Department of Community Justice, Portland, OR.
This workshop will be a panel presentation about the effort by Multnomah County to reduce disproportionate minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system. One of the unintended consequences of this effort has been the identification of a subpopulation of high-risk youth on probation who are typically seen as mental health and addiction treatment failures. The panel will focus on the implications for both clinical and probationary practices with interventions with this youth probation subpopulation.
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