Paul Brasler & Patti Ashley – Addiction and Shame Dual Certification Training: Shame-Informed CBT, DBT, REBT & More

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You know it’s not just addiction that you treat…

You’ve worked with incarcerated clients full of regret, parents feeling they’re failing their children, clients who cause irreversible damage driving under the influence…

The shame of poor choices becomes fuel to the fire of addiction that YOU need to put out.

Whether you’ve been in the field for decades or are just getting your footing, you’ll gain the skill set from our unique dual addiction and shame certification course to treat more than the surface of addiction. Get the skills to blend CBT, DBT, REBT, Psychodynamic, and Family & Group Therapy strategies with innovative addiction treatment models and proven strategies for uprooting shame to:

• Restore order to a hijacked brain reward system
• Help clients reframe their symptoms to cultivate self-acceptance
• Reprocess shame-driven thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
• Harness the inherent healing of the therapeutic alliance
• Apply an eclectic approach to addiction and more!

Lead your clients to long-term sobriety and create a practice that makes YOU feel proud.

Become the expert – with the ultimate certifications you need to elevate your practice right now – and the transformational shame-informed addiction skills to immediately change your clients’ lives today. You’ll get strategies to:

• Overcome fears about failure, inadequacy & rejection
• Keep therapy moving and end shame driven-avoidance
• Reclaim the body from shame & create acceptance
• Build shame resiliency with empathy, forgiveness & compassion interventions
• Differentiate between casual misuse and addiction
• Manage PAWS, cross dependence, serotonin syndrome & excited delirium
• Motivational Interviewing dialogues to improve client engagement & treatment compliance

Course Outline

Join Paul Brasler M.A., LCSW, for the most engaging and innovate addictions treatment course we’ve ever offered. Paul showcases effective, evidence-based treatment models for you to integrate into an eclectic approach to addiction that will create long-term sobriety in your most challenging cases.

• Dialogues to improve motivational interviewing and “OARS” method
• Avoid the 10 most common errors made in group therapy
• Manage PAWS, cross dependence, serotonin syndrome & excited delirium
• Overcome assumptions working with women, pregnant clients, cultural & racial groups, people with disabilities, homelessness, military personnel, veterans & elderly populations

Science Behind Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)

• New gateways to addiction
• Biopsychosocial aspects of abuse
  5 F’s of Trauma Response
• The brain’s reward system
• Impact of metabolism

Signs of Intoxication & Withdrawal

• Spot PAWS, “cross dependence”, serotonin syndrome & excited delirium
• Alcohol & other depressants
• Stimulants vs opioids
• Prevalence of cannabinoids
• Psychoactive plants, chemicals, inhalants & more

Assessment of SUDs

• 4 take-home screening tools
• Steps to assess for suicidality
• Simplified diagnosis formulation
• Spot trauma, comorbidities & drug-induced disorders
• Navigate a high risk of misdiagnosis
• Use non-invasive drug screenings

Treatment Planning: Determine Level of Care

• How to decide level of care
• Why detox alone is NOT treatment
• Inpatient, outpatient or partial hospitalization?
• Choose the right care each time

Recognize & Treat Process Addictions

• Compulsive gambling
• Compulsive sexual behaviors
• Electronic addictions
• Disordered eating

Treatment of Substance Use Disorders

Strategies for Engagement & Compliance

• Build an integrative approach
• Apply motivational interviewing to each stage of change
• Medication-assisted treatment, contingency management & harm reduction
• Case management & resource use
• Basics of Seeking Safety protocol

Psychodynamic Approaches

• Role of the ego & how to harness it
• Identify & confront defenses
• Examine each client’s development
• Recognize & heal past trauma

CBT & REBT Interventions

• Apply the A-B-C model to substance abuse
• Recognize triggers & foster coping
• Deconstruct negative schemas

DBT Strategies

• Navigate SUDs and Personality Disorders
• Create mindfulness practices
• Encourage mental flexibility

SUDs & The Family

• Address codependency
• Overcome family norms blocking progress
• How & when to engage the family

Treatment Strategies for Special Populations

• Overcome assumption & stigma
• Active military & veterans
• LGBTQ clients
• Pregnant women
• Older adults
• Homelessness

Legal & Ethical Issues in Treating SUDs

• Self-disclosure guidelines, personal biases & impaired practitioners
• Work with incarcerated clients & drug treatment courts
• Address vicarious trauma & practice self-care
• Risks and limitations of research

Meet Your Experts:

Paul Brasler, MA, LCSW, has worked in the social work field for the past 22 years. He is the head of behavioral health for Daily Planet Health Services, a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides comprehensive and integrated healthcare and mental health services (including medication-assisted opioid treatment). Paul is also president of Providence Consulting & Education L.L.C., through which he provides clinical supervision and professional education services.

Patti Ashley, Ph.D., LPC, has integrated 40 years of experience in special education, child development, and psychology into her wholehearted work as a psychotherapist, author, international speaker, and authenticity architect coach. She brings unique insights into the identification and treatment of shame, trauma, grief and dysfunctional family patterns.

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