Addiction Treatment in an Age of Societal Loss of Control: New Guidelines for Individual, Couple, and Family Treatment
CPSY x244
| Days | Friday, April 20th, 2012 |
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| Times | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
| Room | Loyola Hall, Room 136 |
| Credit | 0.6 CEU (or 6 CE Hours) |
| Cost | $140.00 |
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Description
Life in the 21st century is fast. Too fast. For many, especially in urban areas, the pace of everyday life has outstripped people’s ability to manage, to fulfill all of their responsibilities and even to cope. Multi-tasking, the buzz-word for “achievement” over the last fifteen years has become the source of “multi-problems.”
The field of technology was founded on core beliefs and values of limitless space and possibility, the unquestioned value of speed and an equation of speed with progress. These fundamental values formed the foundation for a “culture of technology” that has become an out of control “addicted system” – an idealized dream of limitless possibility and gain. Hooked to the idea of “no limits,” people cannot stop believing in the dream and pursuing it, though they are now hitting a wall, faced with the reality of their own human limits. They can’t work any faster, smarter, or longer than they are working now, yet they believe they should be able to and they keep trying. That is what addiction is: the belief in no limits – to eat, drink, spend, work longer and longer hours – with no consequences.
This cultural addiction to speed has infected families everywhere. People live with chronic pressure which leads to stress disorders of all kinds. The value of speed, the pressures of competition and the absence of a realistic middle ground have created serious problems for everyone, including children. Now, entire families and communities are out of control, driven by the high of speed, greed and the lure of “having it all.”
What happens when one person needs treatment for chemical addiction? What happens in intervention and the course of treatment for that person and the family? How and when can the recovering person go home if the family is out of control? Is there any safe place for recovering people in a culture that is out of control?
Instructor
Other Profile
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown, Ph.D. is a clinician, author, teacher, researcher, and consultant in the field of addictions. She is the Director of The Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California, an outpatient psychotherapy clinic based on an integration of mental health and addiction theory and practice. As a Research Associate at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, she co-directed The Family Recovery Research Project during the 1990s and applied this research to the development of an extended family treatment program at Mayflower in Marin County. A psychologist, she is the author of Treating the Alcoholic (Wiley, 1985), and Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics (Wiley, 1988) and Editor of Treating Alcoholism, (Jossey-Bass, 1995.) She is coauthor of The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model (Guilford, 1999), and The Family Recovery Guide (New Harbinger, 2000,) and co-editor of The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women ( Jossey-Bass, 2002.) Her latest book is A Place Called Self: Women, Sobriety and Radical Transformation (Hazelden, 2004.) A companion workbook was published in the fall, 2006. She has completed two training videos (Jaylen Productions, 1997) and a video for professionals and families in recovery through Hazelden, 2005. She lectures widely and maintains a private practice. She has completed a book on the culture?s addiction to speed -- the fast pace of life.
Featured Workshops
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This Winter and Spring: Aging and Relationships [LPCC] Barry Hayes Sat. 2/25/12 9am – 4pm Sandplay Therapy: Fundamentals of Theory and Practice Olivia Heathcote Sat. 3/3/12 9am - 4pm Stephanie Brown Fri. 4/20/12 9am - 4pm New Strategies for Difficult Couples Peter Pearson Sat. 5/5/12 9am – 1pm Robert Navarra Fri. 6/8/12 9am - 4pm
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