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TraumAddiction: Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma
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TraumAddiction: Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma

SAFETY AND STABILIZATION FOR THE ADDICTED SURVIVOR OF TRAUMA
Created byJ. Eric Gentry, PhD
Last updated 2/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Summarize the causes of substance use disorders & factors that reinforce drug use as related to case conceptualization.
  • Explain the basic neurobiology of addictive chemicals and its treatment implications.
  • Conceptualize Treatment that addresses both Traumatic Stress and Addiction concurrently
  • Discover the “active ingredients” for trauma treatment that work equally well with addictive disorders
  • Develop skills for assessing traumatic stress & Addiction disorders
  • Competently implement feedback informed therapy with traumaddicted clients following training to develop, maintain & enhance therapeutic relationship and positive outcomes
  • Discover technical and relational interventions for enhancing positive expectancy during treatment
  • Conceptualize importance of teaching clients about ANS functions especially threat response (tools for hope)
  • Identify the key components to interrupting threat response in real-time activities (self-regulation)
  • Develop skills for ameliorating shame towards self-compassion using graphic time line intervention
  • Skills development for relaxation, grounding & containment to assist with safety & stabilization
  • Employ principles of reciprocal inhibition to engage in vivo exposure to lessen PTS(D) and addiction sx
  • Discover principles of posttraumatic growth and resilience for both early-stage skills-building later-stage optimization

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 5h 48m total length

  • Welcome0:14
  • Introduction to TraumAddiction44:02

    Explore traumaddiction, treating trauma survivors with addiction concurrently in outpatient and inpatient settings, weaving neurobiology, causes, attachment, and evidence-based exposure and self-regulation strategies into a practical treatment framework.

  • Neurobiology of Addiction40:42

    Explore how addiction reshapes brain function, overwhelming the prefrontal cortex with limbic and midbrain activity and dopamine-glutamate surges, explaining the three stage cycle and trauma-informed treatment options.

  • Cause of Addiction/Causes of Trauma1:26:19

    Examine the causes of addiction and trauma, highlighting ace scores and adverse childhood experiences, their dose-response link to health, and addiction as a life-experience issue beyond biochemistry.

  • Tools for Hope and The Active Ingredients1:47:55

    Regulate the autonomic nervous system to reduce stress and shame through psychoeducation and self-regulation. Apply exposure, relaxation, and cognitive restructuring within a compassionate therapeutic relationship for trauma survivors with addiction.

  • Psychoeducation and Skill Building1:08:55

    Teach addicted survivors of trauma to regulate the autonomic nervous system, transform trauma-related shame into self-compassion, and build practical skills through psychoeducation, outcome measures, and graphic timeline interventions.

Requirements

  • No Prerequisites

Description

Not everyone who is traumatized becomes addicted but everyone who is addicted has been traumatized – Gabor Maté

This course first explores the intersection of trauma and addiction through a bio-psycho-social approach that, for the 21st Century would be more accurately called neuro-traumatic-polyvagal approach. This course helps clinicians, addiction professionals and recovering addicts understand how trauma is at the center of the disease of addiction and must be addressed for addicts to enjoy lasting recovery and quality of life. The second half of the course introduces a four-stage treatment structure to treat trauma and addiction simultaneously ins a safe and effective method using evidence-based principles and practices.


COURSE OUTLINE

Foundational Issues in Addictions-Informed Psychotherapy

• Addiction Vs. Substance Use Disorder vs. Chemical Dependence

• Neurobiology of Addiction

• Causes of Addiction (BioPsychosocial)

• Attachment issues

TRAUMATIC STRESS

• What Causes Trauma?

• Symptoms of PTS(D)

EMPOWERMENT & RESILIENCE TREATMENT STRUCTURE: Four-Stage Behavioral Treatment Model for Co-Occurring Traumatic Stress and Addiction

  1. Preparation & Relationship

  2. Skills Development & Cognitive Restructuring

  3. Desensitization & Integration

  4. Posttraumatic Growth & Resilience

1. Preparation & Relationship

• Assessment

• Feedback Informed Tx

2. Skills Development & Cognitive Restructuring

• Tools for Hope/ANS

• Self-Regulation

• Graphic Time-Line/Narrative

• Shame > Self-Compassion

• Additional Stabilization & Containment

3. Desensitization & Integration

• In vivo Exposure

• Forward-Facing® Trauma Therapy

• Imaginal Exposure (1+ year of recovery)

4. Posttraumatic Growth & Resilience

• Elements of PTG

• Continuance of IVE/FFTT/Capacity-Building

• Reconnection

• Optimization

Who this course is for:

  • Clinicians
  • Addiction Professionals
  • Mental Health Professionals
  • Recovering Addicts

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