2023 Cape Cod Symposium Brochure - 7

AGENDA BY DAY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
8:30 AM-12:00 PM
MORNING
PRECONFERENCES
Impact of Mental Health and
Addictive Disorders on Families
and Communities
Jack h. perkins, d min, ladc,
csac, cclc
Mental health and substance misuse/abuse disorders
too often result in devastating consequences for
concerned significant others (CSOs) who are in close
relationship with those who struggle. Fifty-three million
(19.4%) people age 12 and over have reported using
illegal drugs or misusing prescription drugs within
the last year. These figures represent a huge burden
for CSOs. However, there are very few therapeutic
models designed to help CSOs, despite a plethora
of issues they struggle with, including anxiety,
depression, trauma, lack of intimacy with spouses/
partners, children, financial issues, grief, etc. There is
a great need for CSOs to receive professional help.
How may therapists and agencies provide professional
care and hope for those who strive to provide care
for CSOs? How may therapists and agencies provide
services to communities that focus on families? These
are the kinds of questions that will be the focus of this
interactive presentation, designed to help therapists
become sensitive to CSOs and become equipped
to assist families by discussing unique treatment
models. These models fall under three categories:
community support groups, psychotherapy groups,
and psychoeducation and support groups that
therapists may develop for their communities. In
addition, this presentation will focus on specific familyinvolved
therapeutic models that may be beneficial
for therapists to use when working with those in
close relationship with their client or those who take
the initiative to ask for help, and how therapists and
agencies can provide services to communities that
focus on families.
Professional Ethics and the
Healthcare Organization
ahmad al-musa, phd
kevin rosario
This workshop will help shed light on the healthcare
system and recent changes related to professional
ethics, responsibility, accountability, and regulations.
Attendees will review the many barriers to building
an organizational culture and ethical climate, and the
support needed from legislative and regulatory bodies
at the state and national level. Numerous federal/state
regulations define obligations for the healthcare field,
with which healthcare organizations must comply. Any
healthcare employee who violates these laws and/
or regulations risks individual criminal prosecution,
penalties, and civil actions for damages. The potential
for conflict of interest exists at all staff levels. Healthcare
policies and standards provide an infrastructure for any
actual or potential conflicts of interest, so that action
can be taken to ensure that such conflict does not
inappropriately influence important decisions. This
workshop will highlight a handful of categories of ethical
conflicts that arise on a provider and organizational level
and their impact on the healthcare culture.
8:30 AM-5:00 PM
FULL-DAY PRECONFERENCE
Transforming Addictive Processes
Through Attachment and
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
michael Barnett, ma, ed s,
certified eft trainer
After a century of treatment and enormous advances
in understanding the neurological impact of addictive
processes on the brain, addiction treatment remains
highly ineffective, with some of the worst efficacy rates
within the mental health field. Have we been barking
up the wrong tree? We live in context of relationship:
with the world, community, friends, family, and
significant others. We are wounded in relationship;
research indicates that we heal in relationship.
However, talk therapies fall short of accessing the
neural networks that hold deep distress. This workshop
demonstrates how to use in-vivo systemic and
attachment-based interventions in session to not only
heal the deep wounds that drive addictive processes,
but simultaneously create a substitute-replacement for
self-medicating with substances: secure attachment.
Through using the clinical skills and interventions
of attachment theory from emotionally focused
therapy (EFT), participants will learn how to access
systemic doorways into the neural networks that hold
traumatic distress beneath addictive processes and
utilize relationship as a curative factor. Participants
will learn didactic information as well as explore this
approach to addiction treatment through viewing an
actual therapy session demonstrating working with
addiction using EFT. The workshop will demonstrate
clear, basic EFT interventions that can be immediately
applied to clinicians' practices that elicit therapeutic
opportunities for healing emotional distress within the
context of their client's relationships.
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
AFTERNOON
PRECONFERENCES
Ethical Issues in the Clinical
Practice of Treating Substance
Use Disorders
donna m. white, rn, phd, carn,
cadc ii, ladc i
This workshop aims to promote a working knowledge
of how ethical mandates provide the core of clinical
practice in all healthcare professions. Participants
will review case vignettes and examine how legal and
questionable ethical practices may affect treatment
outcomes with potential to increase liability for the
professional, including allegations of neglect, selfdisclosure,
and refusal of care. Common practices
in the treatment of substance use disorders will be
discussed, as well as specific stressors that may lead
to ethical concerns in the workplace. Review of the
basic ethical philosophies will define the differences
in law, negligence, court decisions, values, and ethical
decision-making processes.
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