E37 - This session has been cancelled.
Saturday, August 20 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am
E38 - Empowerment through the Body: Managing Trauma Symptoms in Addiction Recovery
Saturday, August 20 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am
Trauma symptoms and addiction are often interrelated on the path to recovery and can be challenging to navigate. As a survivor of the Columbine shooting, Austin’s personal journey into addiction by way of acute trauma will illustrate the necessity for those in recovery to reclaim their personal efficacy in managing trauma symptoms in order to experience lasting recovery. In this session we will explore the relationship between trauma and addiction and how body based skills can support healing and long term recovery.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify co-occurring symptoms of trauma and addiction
- Describe the effect of body- based skills on trauma and addiction related distress
- Plan for and facilitate body-based skills to increase self efficacy in managing trauma and addiction related distress
E39 - NADA – A Simple but Effective Tool to Aid in the Opioid Epidemic
Saturday, August 20 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am
The National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) 5-point ear acupuncture protocol is a simple tool that can help break the vicious cycle of trauma, pain, opiates, numbing of emotions and pain, tolerance, withdrawal and more pain. The NADA protocol is a drug free, client centered, low cost, safe and effective intervention that can help patients calm down enough to cope with trauma and allows them to be more active participants in other areas of their treatment. It can aid in the management of stress, cravings, sleep, pain, and opiate and other drug withdrawal and significantly helps with treatment retention, improving outcomes.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the vicious cycle that occurs from trauma resulting in chronic pain being treated with opiates without addressing the underlying emotional trauma and how this contributes to addiction
- Describe a simple 5-point ear acupuncture protocol that can aid in breaking the cycle and how it can help with opiate withdrawal and treatment retention
- Plan how to be trained to use this tool and how to incorporate it as an aid in treating addictions, stress, anxiety, PTSD, depression and psychological and emotional trauma
E40 - It’s Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard: Practical Guidelines to Create Recovery Oriented Systems of Care in Your Organization
Saturday, August 20 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am
In recent years, SAMHSA has adopted firm resolutions that invite mental health and addiction services organizations to embrace the philosophy of recovery-oriented care. Co-presenters Lorie Obernauer and Gina Thorne will describe six practical guidelines that can be followed for implementing recovery-oriented practices and provide specific examples of how these guidelines are implemented at Lakeview Health. The good news is that many organizations are already putting recovery-oriented care systems into practice. Participants will be asked to identify those practices in their own organizations and brainstorm new opportunities for developing additional recovery-oriented services.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define a Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC)
- Identify the 6 dimensions of ROSC
- Formulate one goal for enhancing ROSC in your organization
E41 - Integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Twelve Step Philosophy: An Innovative Approach Addressing Emotion Regulation
Saturday, August 20 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am
Emotion dysregulation poses a significant challenge when engaging clients in therapeutic programming in early recovery. Common pitfalls include misinterpretation of behavior as being resistive, rebellious and volitional. This often leads to disruption of programming, premature discharge and poor outcomes. Integrating Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) with the Twelve Steps (Platter and Cabral, 2012) is an innovative curriculum developed to bridge the gap between clinical and social support. Traditional DBT concepts have been adapted to more effectively address co-occurring treatment issues, such as emotion dysregulation, that commonly arise in early recovery. In this session, the presenters will describe key concepts and evidence-based practice trends related to DBT and Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF). A review of the curriculum will provide innovative ideas for group facilitation and individual coaching. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice exercises from the curriculum. This course will enhance therapeutic skills for Mental Health and Addictions clinicians.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Analyze the connection between DBT and Twelve Steps Philosophy and evaluate how this integration model will lead to better outcomes
- Define how Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Twelve Step Facilitation is successfully used in addiction treatment
- Examine how utilization of this model promotes non-pharmacologic approaches to managing emotion dysregulation commonly seen in early recovery
B09 - How to Avoid Committing Healthcare Fraud While Balancing Toxicology Revenue with Treatment Programs
Saturday, August 20 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am
Today, many owners of substance abuse treatment centers have either opened their own toxicology laboratory or are contemplating whether they should. The reasons for their wanting or thinking about doing so vary, including reinvesting the revenue realized from toxicology testing back into their treatment programs to help improve or expand patient care. However, the “how” and “why” of toxicology revenue tend to become obscured in the modern treatment paradigm and can lead, in some instances, to violations of health care regulatory and criminal laws caused by what regulators and insurance companies want to characterize as fraudulent behavior or over-utilization of services. In many instances, jointly-held treatment programs and toxicology service providers are simply unaware how to legally secure and reimburse referral sources, or what is deemed “appropriate” nature or frequency of testing. This presentation will educate the audience on how to avoid healthcare fraud under common ownership arrangements by reviewing applicable laws including illegal kickbacks, patient brokering, illegal fee-splits, fraudulent and abusive testing, medical necessity, and marketing and employment arrangements.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify legal behavior commensurate with entering into agreements to obtain or provide toxicology services
- Develop a compliance plan for same
- Identify and self-regulate questionable marketing practices which may rise to the level of legal and ethical breach of protocol
MK5 - The Time Has Come: Introducing the Addiction Treatment Marketers Organization
Saturday, August 20 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am
Jeff Rasor, Strategist, Addiction Treatment Marketers Organization
Addiction treatment marketing has come under heavy scrutiny in the past few years, with allegations of patient brokering, bait-and-switch Internet marketing practices, and dishonest referral practices. At the same time, rapidly changing technologies are transforming the ways in which families and patients find treatment and engage with marketers. Education is the key to pushing back against unethical practices as well as to grow and become more successful in the field. A group of likeminded professionals have united to create the Addiction Treatment Marketers Organization to address unethical practices, introduce best practices for helping people engage recovery resources, and educate professionals in the marketing field. Attend this session to learn more about ATMO and how you and your organization can be involved. This session is for everyone in the treatment marketing community. Carve 90 minutes out of your conference to attend this session.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify several unethical marketing practices in the addiction treatment field
- Address questionable marketing practices
- Understand the mission of the Addiction Treatment Marketers Organization and how to become involved now and in the future
B10 - Treatment Technology-Recovery Nexus: Leveraging the Power of Platform for Transformation
Saturday, August 20 | 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
In an era of transition from an acute care model to one more appropriately characterized as chronic care, recovery-oriented systems of care, ongoing connection with patients long after their acute treatment episode is essential. Treatment programs now have numerous vehicles for maintaining this contact and patients now can use technology to stay connected more conveniently with sources of recovery support. There is an emergence of applications including recovery-focused apps, online support meetings, client tracking services and other programs that leverage the power of the latest technology. This presentation will focus on the development of a technology specifically designed to enable the synthesis of these applications on a platform allowing a true recovery oriented system of care to emerge in the digital realm. Also discussed will be how we are leveraging technology to increase engagement throughout the developmental process of recovery in not only the sober community at CeDAR, but also within the larger context of the greater recovery community. We will discuss how engagement science is at the heart and other essential technology platform principles were brought to bear on the development of this digital recovery platform. The session will present how these digital tools, assessments and relationships can help others realize their potential not just as recovering addicts and alcoholics, but as vital members of the life of their community
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Understand how longitudinal engagement is critical to improving recovery outcomes:
- Share the use of relationship, engagement science and the importance of architecting this into a platform for recovery management
- Discuss matching of patient profiles to technological tools that offer the best chances for long-term use to enhance recovery outcome.
- Highlight what we have learned about maximizing engagement through effective matching of recovery growth content
- Discuss the imperative to support and serve the Recovery champion so that their passion can be leveraged and scaled in the service of others.
- Being of Service - The journey of the champion as a person newly in recovery traverses the road from patient to a self-realized champion who helps others using digital technology
- Discuss the key components of our platform, including programs, spaces, groups, feeds and resources
- Whole person standardized and self-assessment tools and tracking – Becoming your own recovery manager
- Critical Engagement Actions
- Relationships in the digital space with private and public groups – a discussion of how the CeDAR Platform helps our community connect and communicate
- Analytics – what we didn’t know, what we will know about recovery, and what we know now!
MK6 – Recruiting and Managing Marketing Representatives
Saturday, August 20 | 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
This interactive session will discuss successful ways of recruiting marketing staff for the addiction treatment field. We will explore best practices for engaging, retaining and managing marketing representatives. This session will also address the ever increasing issue of retaining valuable employees that are being recruited by competitors.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Teach tips for recruiting marketing representatives in the addiction industry
- Provide successful ways for employee engagement and retention
- Share insight on results driven management of marketing representatives
E43 - Developing Standards of Care to Address LGBTQ Issues in Addiction Treatment
Saturday, August 20 | 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
NALGAP's mission is to confront all forms of oppression and discriminatory practices in the delivery of services to all people and to advocate for programs and services that affirm all genders and sexual orientations. Founded in 1979 and dedicated to the prevention and treatment of alcoholism, substance abuse, and other addictions in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer communities. NALGAP endorses treatment that must include a focus on the effects of stigma, homophobia and heterosexism in order to be beneficial to the client. Not only does treatment need to be inclusive of the core issues affecting LGBT clients, it needs to maintain a LGBT affirming approach in order to help individuals develop and maintain recovery
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Identify three influence affecting the diversity of health disparities experienced by LGBT populations
- List three LGBT-specific factors that improve such populations’ interaction with the treatment and healthcare system
- List 3 national resources available to improve services to LGBT clients
Sponsored by: CeDAR, Presented by: NALGAP
E44 - Identifying and Embracing Emotion: An Alternative to Numbing Out
Saturday, August 20 | 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Nobody wants to feel pain. We develop elaborate defenses and strategies to avoid feeling hurt, depressed, anxious, angry, embarrassed, or fear. There are many substances available to facilitate the numbing process. Unresolved troubling emotions underlie most, if not all addictions. This presentation will establish the importance of addressing painful emotions as a key component to maintaining sobriety. Strategies for identifying and pinpointing the specific troubling emotions will be discussed, and the case will be made that stepping into the specific area of emotional pain is not only possible, but preferable to numbing out.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Explain why identifying and embracing painful emotions are a key component to sustained sobriety
- Identify at least three specific troubling emotions that we try to avoid.
- Apply strategies to help clients embrace specific painful emotions in a safe and productive manner
E45 - Playing Together in the Sandbox
Saturday, August 20 | 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Substance use disorder services bring a diverse group of individuals together who, although may work within the same field of behavioral health, have traveled different paths to this destination and bring with them different beliefs, perceptions and opinions. Counselors, Social Workers Community Support Workers, Healthcare workers, Faith-based and peer Recovery support providers need ethical guidelines and clear service definitions to prevent ethical misconduct and role and boundary confusion. The current substance use disorder recovery field includes multiple service practitioners with varying degrees of qualifications. This diverse group of service providers need standard guidelines that provide direction and guidance within the job functions they perform. Care must be taken to clearly define unique and common key service functions to prevent role confusion and practicing outside of the accepted scope of practice for that role. A code of ethics and supervision provides the objective feedback professionals need.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Articulate how different roles require different ethical considerations
- Enhance ability to provide ethical supervision to substance use disorder treatment and recovery services staff.
- Identify conflicting and overlaping key service functions of different positions in the substance use disorder treatment field.
E46 - Vicarious Trauma: The Dangers of Helping Others
Saturday, August 20 | 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Vicarious trauma (VT) refers to the psychological changes that can occur in clinicians as a result of joining with clients in an empathetic relationship. VT is a significant occupational hazard to clinicians; however, is rarely discussed in academic preparation or supervision. VT has the potential to negatively affect clinicians' service provision, as well as personal life and interpersonal relationships. VT is unique in that negative changes occur in the clinician’s cognitive schemas, creating potential dangers to one’s practice, service provision, world view, and personal relationships. Although VT is a risk, there are a number of protective factors that can be implemented to decrease the overall negative impact and increase a social worker’s longevity in the field.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Discuss what VT is, the commonality of VT in social services, and review risk factors and protective factors of VT
- Examine the importance of discussing VT in academic preparation, supervision, and administrative policy
- Discuss emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness for social workers and the impact of prevention of VT to clinicians, clients, and agencies
E47 - Risk Assessment and Co-Occurring Disorders: What Can We Really Do?
Saturday, August 20 | 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Treating individuals with personality disorders in your facility requires a commitment to remain engaged, tolerant, and firm simultaneously. Individuals will impact therapeutic communities by: Being Demanding, Actively or Passively Being Non-compliant, Over or Under Valuing Themselves and Others, Being Manipulative and Engaging in Interpersonal Dishonesty, Exhibiting Difficulties in Developing Non-Pathological Attachments, Failing to Accept and/or Process Feedback, Lacking Awareness of the Impact They are Having on Others, Self-defeating, Self-damaging, or Self-destructive Behavior, and Having Poor Affective Regulation. Are these behaviors familiar or common? How are you managing these behaviors? This workshop will focus on the influence and integration of: 1) Temperament which is the genetic or constitutional contribution to personality. It refers to an individual’s inherited disposition to feel, act and think in specific, restricted ways. 2) Character which is derived from the Greek word for “engraving.” It refers to the distinctive qualities of a person that are learned or develop through socialization and experience. These two factors are blended to create personality. Lastly, a model of the behavioral disinhibition pathway, the stress reduction pathway, and the reward sensitivity pathway will be presented.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Identify warning signs of individuals whom may be at increased risk for relapse
- List three ways individuals with personality disorders impact addiction treatment facilities and develop three strategies for managing them
- Discuss the three pathways for developing co-occurring disorders which integrate biological, psychological, systemic, and addictive interventions
B11 - Accountable Care: Measuring Treatment Fidelity and Outcomes
Saturday, August 20 | 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Organizations that can consistently demonstrate positive outcomes and treatment fidelity will thrive in the new healthcare environment. Foundations Recovery Network is a private, for profit healthcare provider and has developed a system of data collection to support organizational quality at all levels. FRN uses information developed through the Department of Research and Fidelity to support third-party payer contract negotiations, program development, marketing campaigns and clinical decision models. The session will focus on key areas of organizational accountability. Strategies for developing and integrating accountability systems will be presented, and specific examples of the application of these principles will be included.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Identify practical strategies and applications for the development of outcome measurement systems
- Define standards and practices essential to measurement and reporting outcomes and fidelity
- Cite specific examples of the use of outcomes, including clinical, program, administrative, and policy applications
MK7 – Exposing the Truth on How Treatment Centers Market
Saturday, August 20 | 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Attendees will examine current marketing practices in the addiction treatment field. Attendees will discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of behavioral healthcare marketing by taking an in-depth look at what works and what doesn’t work when selling their facility and services to people looking for help. Attendees will listen to actual calls (re-created to protect the identity of facilities and their clients) to help understand what is truly happening in the field. After listening to the calls, attendees will discuss ways to transition to more legal, ethical, and moral approaches to reaching out to people looking for help and how to avoid unethical tactics such as patient brokering and false advertising claims.
