Sunday, August 21 | 8:15 am - 9:45 am

 

 

This workshop addresses how to effectively impact the negative effects of parental substance use by addressing the mother’s substance disorder/trauma related issues, assessing and accelerating the missed cue’s in the child’s development, while building the long-term skills for family strength and self-sufficiency. In addition to the therapy within the treatment period, focus is also concentrated on the transition process. This is obtained through guiding mom in developing strong community support to enable sustainable family life during the recovery process.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 21 | 8:15 am - 9:45 am

 

 

One no longer needs to look to the heavens to search for signs of intelligent life, because we are not alone anymore. Human beings are in a rapidly escalating, increasingly integrated and evolutionary relationship with our own technology. With the passing of each nanosecond, the digital systems we ourselves created continue to evoke radical, drastic and unalterable changes to who we are as human beings, are altering our very understanding of what defines a relationship!  In single generation, eons-old patterns of human social interaction – both planted in our DNA and learned via our culture- have changed forever. Ask yourself: in the digital age, what is a relationship? Do you have to meet someone “in person” to really know or even love them? What is intimacy when sex can be virtual? What is infidelity? What is the meaning of ‘friendship’ and community today? The questions are endless but how you answer them will likely depend … on your age. 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 21 | 8:15 am - 9:45 am

 

 

 

Behavioral healthcare executives face a wide range of daily challenges—and have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders. Conference attendees are invited to submit their most pressing issues for discussion among an expert panel of their executive-level peers, moderated by Behavioral Healthcare Editor-in-Chief, Julie Miller. This interactive dialogue is designed to offer executives real-world tips for addressing their common concerns.

 

 

 

MK8 - Altruistic Marketing 101

 

Sunday, August 21 | 8:15 am - 9:45 am

 

 

Fueled by altruism, this lecture will inspire content that educates, informs, motivates and combats the drug and alcohol industries.    The presentation will dive into the advertising numbers of alcohol companies, their target demographics and their strategies, then draw a comparative analysis as to how recovery marketing can reach the same audiences at scale. Through lessons in altruistic marketing, we'll learn that we can get impact more of the forgotten 89% of people in need of help into treatment and how we can use marketing as a prevention tool to keep people from becoming addicted in the first place.  This lecture on digital strategy provides comprehensive overview of the current state of internet marketing in the addiction treatment world and the best practice applications for businesses in the modern recovery field. By addressing the recent changes in global search algorithms and social media trends, we’ll dive into the nuts and bolts of what makes a website rise to the top, methods for networking and promoting your value to the recovery industry, plus non-invasive marketing strategies that communicate your brand without alienating those that need help.    Are you marketing sobriety or a sales pitch?

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 21 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am

 

 

Our society has often turned a blind eye to trauma’s impact on males and subsequently trauma has been focused on as a “female issue.” As a result there have been continuing cycles of trauma and addiction in males that continue to negatively impact our society as a whole. Mindfulness has been shown to be effective as a treatment intervention working with females with addiction and trauma but there has been limited research committed to working with male populations. This presentation will offer a look at using mindfulness as a clinical intervention with males in addiction treatment.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 21 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am

 

 

Working issues of a behavior or lifestyle change in patients takes flexibility and innovation as well as solid skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI) and health coaching.This workshop is designed for people who have had the basics and are ready to bump up their practice and use to the next level. This workshop will offer practice opportunities to think, and speak Motivational Interviewing.  MI applications that work through difficult presentations and stuck places improves skills and resiliencies in the worker. Additionally observed practice, coaching with feedback is recognized in research as the best practice method for creating full implementation culture change to MI as well as a higher level of confidence in the skills (Miller, W. R., et al., 2004 Fixsen, D.L., et al., 2009). This workshop is a followup to a “ MI basics” two-day or five-part series workshop. Supervisors using and developing MI protocols will gain many great ideas for implementing MI culture in a variety of health care settings. Incorporating MI into practice and work settings provides professionals with ways to address behavior change in a “patient/client centered” way. Participants will make and work with their own tapes as a part of the training as a specific supervision practice.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 21 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am

 

 

This presentation is designed for professionals who want to remain relevant in the future and for addiction treatment providers who want to expand aftercare treatment and support services. Participants will examine how the online medium allows the provider to continue with individual, group or alumni support after the patient is discharged from a hospital or another residential recovery program. Practitioners will be introduced to the basics and challenges of transitioning, in an ethical and secure manner, from the face to face clinical setting to the rapidly developing and expanding options provided by the Internet.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 21 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am

 

 

Every clinician comes across clients whose drinking interferes with their therapeutic process. In cases where alcohol presents as a primary issue, only 10% of individuals fully engage with traditional treatment approaches, though alcohol often plays a secondary role to a larger presenting problem. Clients report not wanting to completely quit drinking and begin to withdraw when approached with abstinence options. While for the clinician, non-abstinence treatment goal alternatives are not very well understood. In this session, specific approaches for these clients will be discussed along with the history, basis and current empirical support.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 21 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am

 

Matthew Ignacio, (Tohono O'odham), MSSW, University of Washington School of Social Work

 

Every clinician comes across clients whose drinking interferes with their therapeutic process. In cases where alcohol presents as a primary issue only 10% of individuals fully engage with traditional treatment approaches, though alcohol often plays a secondary role to a larger presenting problem. Clients report not wanting to completely quit drinking and begin to withdraw when approached with abstinence options. While for the clinician, non-abstinence treatment goal alternatives are not very well understood. In this session, specific approaches for these clients will be discussed along with the history, basis and current empirical support.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 21 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am

 

 

Compared to other healthcare sectors, behavioral health is reimbursed by a diverse mix of public and private payers. With few exceptions, no single payer type dominates the market. State, federal, local, Medicare, Medicaid, as well as commercial and private pay all figure into the mix. This session will provide insight into the complexities of the sector’s unique payer models.