TRAININGS
Monday, April 19
Afternoon Trainings
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Soda Break and Viewing Exhibits at 2:45 p.m.
Chronic Suiciders: A Co-Occurring
Disorder Challenge
Tony Salvatore, MA
“Chronic suiciders” are individuals who
use frequent expressions of suicidal ideation and intent as a coping and
control strategy. Threats are typically tied to contingent demands such as
getting into rehab or being hospitalized. These individuals are often seen
as manipulative and at low risk. Nonetheless they possess many serious risk
factors and weakening protective factors and may demonstrate growing suicide
risk. Chronic suicidality and parasuicidality is frequently encountered
among those with substance abuse disorders and especially in individuals
with co-occurring personality disorder and other mental illness. It may
also involve individuals who make repeated low-lethality attempts and those
known as “suicide addicts” who engage in suicidal behaviors as a
manifestation of an addictive disorder. The safety and stabilization
interventions employed with acutely suicidal persons do not seem effective
with those showing some form of chronic suicidality. Alternative risk
screening, assessment and treatment methods are reviewed for use in COD
settings.
Family Systems Dynamic of Substance
Abuse
Pornthip Chalungsooth, Ed.D., CAC Diplomate
This
workshop will introduce participants to family systems, family counseling
and the importance of working with the family unit. Some basic
interventions, strategies and techniques of family counseling will be
discussed. Case studies will be used to demonstrate certain counseling
strategies and techniques. The SAMHSA TIP 39, "Substance Abuse Treatment
and Family Therapy" publication will be used during this workshop.
Participants will be encouraged to share particular problems they have
encountered in providing family therapy. Feedback will be provided by
instructor and the other participants.
If You Took
Two of Them, Call Me in the Morning
Bruce Bowen, MA,
MDiv., LPC, CAC Diplomate, Greg Krausz, MA, LPC, CAC Diplomate & Kathie
Simpson, RN, BSN, CARN
How often have we
heard our doctor tell us, “take two aspirin and call me in the morning.”
Unfortunately, many health care professionals, particularly doctors, nurses,
and pharmacists find themselves in the difficult situation of being addicted
to alcohol or other drugs. The mystique and aura of respect we give to our
medical providers places them on a pedestal and make their admission of
addiction very difficult. Getting the proper treatment is all the more
difficult due to the social stigma they can experience. Yet, due to their
high stress, easy access, and special knowledge of medications, they are at
very high risk of developing addiction problems. This workshop will address
the dynamics that make addiction that much more difficult for health care
professionals to address. Special programs run by the state that are
designed to assist professionals to recover from their addiction will be
introduced as well as the process of identifying and referring clients to
these programs. The necessary steps to become a provider within these
programs will also be discussed.
Prescription and OTC Drug Abuse
Max Furek, MA, CAC
This workshop is intended as an
introductory/intermediate presentation with a special focus on updated
statistics and education-prevention strategies. It will review abused
prescription and OTC drugs and their unique characteristics.
Participants will be able to: describe at least two
common over-the-counter products that are often abused; identify three
methods of diversion associated with drugs such as Oxycontin and Vicodan;
restate two reasons why prescription drug abuse with senior citizens often
goes unrecognized; restate three strategies for preventing household
prescription drug abuse; and discuss the differences between the oxycodone
and oxycodone hydrochloride categories of pain killers.
The Dynamic Duo: Effective Strategies for Managing the Offender/Addict
in Drug & Alcohol Treatment Settings
Stephen Devlin,
LCSW, LPC, CAC Diplomate, CCS, CCDP Diplomate
It is no secret that by the time most addicts end up in
the criminal justice system they have failed treatment many times. Could it
be the treatment itself is causing the problem and not the person? In this
workshop, we will explore effective strategies for managing and treating the
offender/addict. Additionally, we will focus on identifying similarities
and differences between the symptoms of addiction and Anti-Social
Personality Disorder. Criminal behavior is often dismissed as a symptom of
an addiction and therefore never gets addressed in some treatment settings.
Due to the difficulty of differentiating criminal behaviors from symptoms of
addiction, evaluation and assessment, is critical to the management,
treatment, and outcome of the offender/addict. In this workshop, we will
discuss assessment and evaluation methods that have proven to be successful
in separating criminality from addiction. We will look at screening
instruments specifically designed to assess risk and assist with the
planning of treatment for the criminal/addict. We will discuss treatment
methods that are commonly used and some that are contraindicated with the
criminal/addict population. Contrary to what doesn’t work, we will talk
about what does work, which is evidence-based practice. Lastly, the
workshop will conclude with an overview of a cognitive/behavioral treatment
model that includes utilizing pro-social supports.
Welcome Reception – Mark Lundholm, recovery
humor speaker/presenter, sponsored by Gateway Rehabilitation Center,
Aliquippa, PA
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Light Refreshments and Punch
View exhibits and network
Clean and sober since 1988, Mark Lundholm is a former
criminal, mental patient, homeless wino, resident in a halfway house who
started poking fun at the insanity his life had become. This process
continued and gained momentum, and in a short time an incredibly talented
and energetic entertainer emerged. Beginning with a successful standup
comedy career through 50 states and 10 foreign countries, this comic’s
“drank there, used that” style of humor is now so much more than a comedy
show and beyond a typical theater presentation. The performance given by
Mark Lundholm is a thought provoking journey through a man’s decline and his
subsequent ascension. Mark details his battles with addiction in a clever
manner that is sometimes shocking, often heartwarming, and unceasingly
honest. This is a fast paced PG rated show that never fails to leave
audiences thinking differently about themselves and their loved ones. The
critics have been very favorably impressed. The New York Times said, “Mr.
Lundholm’s acerbic powers of observation are quite dark and funny”, and The
Chicago Sun-Times reported, “Lundholm is a terrific performer—aggressive,
funny and charming.”
Lundholm has had his own Showtime Comedy Special,
appeared on A&E, Comedy Central and written and starred in three one-man
shows. The most notable is a fiercely funny and severely dysfunctional stage
play about chances and choices called “Addicted…a comedy of substance.”
After playing an extended run off-Broadway and receiving great reviews from
The Post, The New York Times and The Associated Press, “Addicted” was voted
into the top position as the most highly recommended show in New York City
by The Wall Street Journal’s Zagat Theater Survey.
Mark has lectured, presented and appeared at over 400
professionals’ conferences and has NEVER been rated less than excellent!
Mark says “half of that is the humor, half of that is the hope, the other
half is something I just love to do!” No mathematics major, Mark Lundholm
is the only speaker of his kind in this industry or in this country. Mark is
also the creator of the revolutionary DVD series “Humor in Treatment”, a
three DVD box set available for professionals to use as a tool for healing
and education. See the website
www.funnyrecovery.com for more details.
Mark currently resides in San Jose, California with his
wife, Julee, and young son, Grayson. Mark is the president and CEO of Mark
Lundholm Enterprise, Inc. He is the most sought after recovery humor
speaker/presenter in this country. He still performs over 300 shows or
presentations per year. Asked how he maintains such a heavy calendar of work
he answers humbly: “God has graced each of us with certain skills. With the
amount of humor I have been blessed to create, how could I NOT work that
much?! This is the job I have because it is the work I was born to do. Why
would I stop?!”
Dinner on your own
For more information, contact PCB at 717.540.4455
or info@pacertboard.org.