TraumAddiction: Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma
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
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
Preparation & Relationship
Skills Development & Cognitive Restructuring
Desensitization & Integration
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
Instructor
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- 142 Reviews
- 293 Students
- 7 Courses
What is Forward>Facing®? Forward-Facing is a unique process for resolving our painful past while living a principle-based life here in the present. It is the marriage of science-based self-regulatory skills paired with resilient intentional living. Engaging these skills lowers stress symptoms while simultaneously enhancing quality of life and well-being. The skills are deceptively simple and easy to implement. Anyone can learn them in a short period of time…and then work the rest of our lives to master them. While Forward-Facing is a bona fide protocol for addressing and resolving traumatic stress, it is equally effective for developing stress-management, resilience and optimization skill for professionals, parents, couples, athletes and performers.
J. Eric Gentry, Ph.D., LMHC, D.A.A.E.T.S. is the founder of the Forward>Facing® Institute. Dr. Gentry is a board-certified and internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. His doctorate is from Florida State University where he studied with Professor Charles Figley—a pioneer of these two fields. In 1997, he co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for Compassion Fatigue—the world’s only evidence-based treatment protocol for compassion fatigue. Dr. Gentry was original faculty, curriculum designer and Associate Director of the Traumatology Institute at Florida State University. In 2001, he became the co-director and moved this institute to the University of South Florida where it became the International Traumatology Institute. In 2010, he began the International Association of Trauma Professionals. He has trained tens of thousands of professionals to more effectively treat traumatic stress. In 2005, Hogrefe and Huber published Trauma Practice: Tools for Stabilization and Recovery—a critically acclaimed text on the treatment of traumatic stress for which Dr. Gentry is a co-author. The third edition of this text was released in 2015. In 2016 He released his revolutionary Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy book. He is the author of numerous chapters, papers, and peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. Dr. Gentry is a licensed psychotherapist with over 33 years of clinical practice. He is the CEO and owner of Compassion Unlimited-- a private psychotherapy, training, and consulting practice.