CEU Seminars
 Trauma-Centered Care for Afflicted, Addicted, and Conflicted Clients: Taking the "Drama" out of Trauma.
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This continuing education seminar begins by practitioners learning to identify how well known past traumatic disasters, and current life stressors has impacted how some addicted clients are being affected by trauma.
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Attendees will show an increased awareness of how frequent psycho-emotional trauma is associated with chemically addicted clients—particularly when “dramatic” circumstances exist.
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Professionals will begin to recognize key components of brain functioning relative to addiction and trauma and discover how the brain is altered by addiction and psycho-emotional trauma.
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Professionals will learn four non-traditional, functional, and easy to apply concepts which can be immediately put into practice with their patients in a group or individual session.
 "Watching the Wheels": Engaging the Addicted Mind (3hrs)/Ethics and Addicts (3hrs).
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This continuing education seminar begins by exploring implicit facts and fictions about engaging the mind of addicted clients. In addition, there will be a reviewing of various parts of the brain affected by alcohol and various types of drugs the can interfere with engaging clients in treatment.
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Attendees will assess cognition relative to the chemically addicted and non-chemically addicted client. Also, participants will identify some common mental barriers for engaging addicted in treatment.
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Participants will evaluate the “guessing game” format relative to traditional “talk” treatment theories and compare their philosophies to engaging addicted patients.
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Professionals will identify key components for jump-starting the “wheels” (i.e. thought process) of the addicted client relative for effectively engaging them in treatment.
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Professionals will learn two non-traditional, functional, and easy to apply concepts which can be immediately put into practice with their patients in a group or individual session.
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In the second half of the seminar, attendees will review common ethical issues relative to licensure, infractions, and resources.
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Participants will review the three C’s relative to ethical situations in addiction.
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Q&A: Attendees will ponder and point out various ethical dilemmas common to all disciplines providing therapeutic intervention with addicted clients.
 Anger and Addiction: Exploring Anger Management in light of the Addictive Mindset.
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This continuing education seminar begins by defining anger, rethinking how anger management is interpreted, and challenging the notion that anger is negative.
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Attendees
will review and explore the most substantial research on correlations between the addicted mind and the angered mindset.
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Participants will explore the commonalities between “road rage” and “relapse” relative to impulsivity, frequency, intensity, and predilections. Counselors will explore the differences between ODD (Oppositional Definite Disorder), Anti-Social Disorder, IED (Intermittent Explosive Disorder), and other volatile disorders relative to intrinsic anger issues.
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Professionals will learn four non-traditional, functional, and easy to apply concepts which can be immediately put into practice with their patients in a group or individual session.
 "My Drugs and My Dreams": Exploring the 'Brain vs. Mind Theory' Relative to Addiction and Recovery.
- This continuing education seminar begins by reviewing and discussing “The Mind vs. the Brain Theory” and why is it crucial for treating the addiction population.
- Attendees will analyze a pressing and probing question: “Where does addiction originate (i.e. in the Brain or the Mind?)” Counselors will explore “Cognitive Reframing,” and other goal-setting approaches to help addicts move forward in their recovery.
- Practitioners will examine the most relevant research concerning key brain mechanisms and their general functions relative to addiction. Counselors will explore physical/psychological dependency and other bio-psychosocial paradoxes.
- Professionals will learn four non-traditional, functional, and easy to apply concepts which can be immediately put into practice with their patients in a group or individual session.
The Secret of SELF-Awareness: Helping Addicts to Know Who They Are Relative to Where They Are.
- This continuing education seminar begins by answering the age old question: “Who are you?” After years of being immersed in addiction, few addicts know who they are: This class will equip counselors to guide the addict on their journey toward discovering who they are relative to where they are.
- Attendees will address and review pertinent research, and social-emotional trends concerning gender issues.
- Practitioners will review and discuss common, traditional and disconcerting roles played by females and males in society by exploring the five common types of females and the five common types of fellas.
- Professionals will learn four non-traditional, functional, and easy to apply concepts which can be immediately put into practice with their patients in a group or individual session.
The "Substance" of SELF: Chemical Dependency and the Conflicts of Self.
The System, the Substance, and the Psyche': A Macro Approach to Chemical Dependency.
- This continuing education seminar begins by reviewing and applying a system’s perspective to addiction treatment while challenging addicts to adapt a macro view of their disease. Pharmaceutical industries, political lobbyist and leading drug cartels will be explored.
- Attendees will explore the most prevalent research on drug laws at the various levels (i.e. local, state, federal and global). Counselors will also review the impact of drug use and drug trafficking on society as a whole.
- Because most people know that the addict is not the only one doing time for their crime, attendees will explore the psyche’ of the felon and the family as it relates to incarceration.
- Professionals will learn four non-traditional, functional, and easy to apply concepts which can be immediately put into practice with their patients in a group or individual session.
The "THERAPEUTIC RING": Conducting Effective Group Therapy with Addicts and other difficult clients.
- This continuing education seminar begins by reviewing and identifying key components that are crucial for directly engaging and effectively treating difficult patient populations by establishing the proper therapeutic setting.
- Practitioners will explore and dispel implicit myths about working with difficult client/patient-populations.
- Counselors will review and evaluate past and present treatment theories, clinical interventions, and pioneers in psychotherapy and compare their philosophies and modalities to today’s difficult patients.
- Attendees will assess the degrees, distinctions, and complexities of both:
Axis I patients (i.e. differential clients: addiction, anxiety issues, depression, etc…), and
Axis II patients (i.e. deviated clients: personality disorders [Narcissistic, Borderlines, Histrionic, etc…].
Substance and Substances: Rethinking Our Deepest Needs and Chemical Dependency.
- This continuing education seminar begins by reviewing and discussing the “substance” (i.e. maturity levels, experiences, etc…, of addicts or the lack thereof), and “substances” (i.e. drugs and other chemicals that are introduced into the addict’s system and their influences).
- Participants will explore how an under developed sense of self and poor social skills can be linked to prolonged addiction issues; subsequently, our primal survival instincts (i.e. emotional, physical, and mental) will become more pronounced.
- Attendees will learn the three underling pennants of human needs.
- Professionals will learn four non-traditional, functional, and easy to apply concepts which can be immediately put into practice with their patients in a group or individual session.
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