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2-Day: EMDR for Co-Occurring Trauma and Addiction: Treatment Strategies to Help Dual Diagnosis Clients Achieve Long-Lasting Recovery

Trauma and addictions go hand in hand. And without addressing both, stable and long-term recovery is unlikely.

An integrative approach to treat substance use disorders and heal trauma simultaneously seems ideal. But you worry that addressing the trauma could lead to relapse, derailing your client’s recovery journey for months or years. Maybe forever.

How can you provide the effective integrative treatment your clients really need?

EMDR allows you to get to the traumatic root causes and contributing factors of each client’s addiction so you can individualize treatment and achieve incredible results.

And now in this two-day training, EMDR and addictions expert Megan McQuary, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C, will provide you with the step-by-step guidance you need to help dual diagnosis clients reach their goal of long-lasting recovery.

When you purchase, you’ll get clinical tools and guidance you can immediately use to overcome resistance and other barriers you face in treatment. PLUS you’ll get a roadmap to using EMDR in your addiction treatment plans so you can reduce your clients’ urges, decrease their cravings and lower their risk of relapse…all while processing the traumas of their past.

Don’t pass up this opportunity to bring the proven power of EMDR into your work with trauma clients with SUDs.

Purchase today!

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the clinical implications of the link between trauma and the development of maladaptive addictive coping mechanisms.
Analyze research on the feasibility and efficacy of using EMDR in addiction-focused therapy.
Utilize treatment strategies to help clients with substance use disorders identify triggers that can lead to increased urges to use.
Use the Feeling State Addiction Protocol to reduce compulsive behavior in clients with substance use disorders.
Utilize the CRAVEX Protocol to decrease cravings and desensitize addictive memories in clients with substance use disorders.
Use the DeTUR Protocol to desensitize triggers and lower urge level in clients with substance use disorders.
Employ EMDR resourcing strategies to prepare clients for simultaneous treatment of trauma and addiction.
Employ an integrative approach that uses parts work and EMDR to disarm protective mechanisms in clients.
Use EMDR to foster resilience and reduce the risk of relapse when clients are confronted by a similar trauma.
Develop individualized treatment plans for clients with differing levels of awareness of addiction and different levels of motivation to change addiction-related behavior.
Use EMDR therapy as a component of clients’ addiction continuing-care to help with emotional core access and perspective shift.
Utilize EMDR therapy in conjunction with other treatment approaches to enhance client stability in the treatment of co-occurring trauma and addiction.

Outline

How Trauma and Addiction are Intertwined

Identifying early experiences of trauma and the impact
Addictive behaviors as methods of protection, safety, control, or coping
How perceptions develop and influence addictive behaviors
The loop of trauma symptoms that trigger substance use
Identifying forms of addiction

Barriers in Substance Use Treatment

Resistance
Unresolved trauma driving addictive behaviors
Exploring Feeling State and addiction
Trauma and risk of relapse- how to handle relapses during trauma processing

The EMDR Framework in SUD Treatment: Addressing Addictive Behavior through an Adaptive Information Processing Lens

Review of EMDR’s 8 phase model and 3 prong approach
EMDR & the brain- why EMDR is effective
How EMDR improves work with addiction related memories
Research, risks and treatment limitations

EMDR Protocols and Methods: Reduce Urges, Decrease Cravings and Maximize Treatment Retention

Feeling State Addiction Protocol - reduce the desire for addictive behavior
CRAVEX Protocol - decrease cravings and desensitize addictive memories
DeTUR Protocol - lower urge level
When to use each protocol
Integrate EMDR and Stages of Change in treatment

Crisis Management and Relapse Prevention Strategies

EMDR Resourcing Skills and Clinical Strategies for Enhanced Recovery

Parts Integration with EMDR to disarm protective mechanisms
Sober self and addicted self
EMDR resourcing strategies to redefine beliefs and implement sober values
Addressing alexithymia in clients
Tools to strengthen self-compassion, selfregulation and motivation for change

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Case Managers
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/19/2022

EMDR for Recent Traumatic Events: Customized Treatment to Target Symptoms and Achieve Rapid Results

Clients want trauma treatments that heal them quickly.

And some clients want to target just one part of their trauma narrative – but not everything all at once.

Your challenge is to meet clients where they are and get them the results they want.

When you’re using highly-effective, evidenced-based treatment protocols like EMDR you need to know how to adapt the framework so you can address what your client is asking for.

Join Rebecca Kase, LCSW, to explore early EMDR interventions for recent trauma and modifications to EMDR that allow you to target specific symptoms – Whether it’s an event that happen last week or decades ago.

You’ll learn:

7 distress management techniques for specific EMDR treatment phases
How to create treatment plans that target specific experiences, symptoms and event memories
3 different models for modifying EMDR so you can tailor therapy to each unique client
Follow the lead of your client’s nervous system by intervening with “choice points”
How memory functions after trauma and how you can impact your client’s processing

Plus, you’re getting handouts, video demonstrations, and experiential exercises you can use for your clients AND yourself.

Get your clients back to fully functioning in life – spending time with family, friends, meeting deadlines at work, school and finding meaning.

Program Information

Objectives

Investigate research on EMDR with early trauma intervention, recommendations and contraindications.
Assess readiness for EMDR phases when working with clients who’ve experienced recent traumatic events.
Develop the clinical acumen to choose between resourcing and stabilization techniques, constricted processing and full protocols for processing recent events.
Practice at least three ways to resource clients with Complex PTSD.
Practice at least two techniques for distress management.
Practice at least two techniques for increasing dual awareness.
Formulate an EMDR treatment plan for recent traumatic events and differentiate from standard EMDR protocol.

Outline

Module I: Research, Overview & Background

The need for early EMDR interventions
“What’s stuck cases yuck”
Research base & core concepts
Changes to EMDR
“Follow the lead” of the nervous system
Clinical need for early intervention & rapid therapy
Must-know contraindications
Components of memory & how they function
Adaptive vs. maladaptive memories
The AIP model

Module II: Client Readiness

The first protocol
How to assess readiness
Phases of EMDR therapy
Brief history taking
Get clients on-board without being a salesperson
Assess nervous system tolerance for treatment
Polyvagal integration in phases 1 & 2
Cue into physical & psychological arousal
Therapy within the window of tolerance
Hyperarousal and Hypoarousal, made simple
A note on dissociation
Dorsal dissociation versus structural dissociation
Red flags of complex structural dissociation
Dual awareness
Assessing medical considerations
State Change vs Trait Change
Red flags in reprocessing
Case Vignettes

Module III: Preparation

The role of Psychoeducation
Bilateral Stimulation – appropriate types and speeds
Follow the lead of the nervous system
Bilateral Stimulation – key resources for installing
Distress management techniques: Containment techniques, Resourcing techniques, Boxed breathing
Installing present safety
“Abnormal is normal”

Module IV: Treatment Planning

Comprehensive treatment vs symptom reduction
What is Fractionated treatment planning and when to use it
Diving in EMDR reprocessing phases 3-6
Constricted vs telescopic processing
EMD & EMDr – How do they work?
Philip Manfield’s Flash Technique
Who benefits from constricted processing?
Step-by-step EMD technique – how to use it
EMDr case example
Constricted processing for recent events
Choice points vs protocols

Module V: EMDR Protocols for Recent Events

Why treat current symptoms?
Research support of modified protocols
Addressing memories before consolidation
3 types of Protocols for Recent events & step-by-step application of each:
- Recent Events Protocol (REP)
- R-TEP (Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol)
- PRECI (Protocol for Recent Critical Incidents)
What’s similar and what’s different between the 3?

Module VI: Clinical Vignettes

Tips for desensitization of recent events
Additional early intervention protocols
Clinical choice points & how to present them
32-year-old, white, she/they, recent school shooting, flashbacks, panic & life stressors
17-year-old she/hers, 3rd generation pacific islander, car accident, guilt and self-blame
Creative resourcing techniques
Handouts & Experiential exercises

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Case Managers
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals

Rethinking Addiction: The Integrative Harm Reduction Approach

The truth about illegal drugs is that most people use them for pleasure, connection, enhancing creativity, and coping with life’s many physical and emotional challenges. Of course, drugs have serious inherent risks. But given the prevalence of the “Just Say No” culture, do we really understand the best way to minimize those risks? For many therapists, the answer is no. In fact, therapists are often so uncomfortable dealing with drug use that they’ll immediately refer a client out, despite having established a solid therapeutic relationship. This session offers a psychobiosocial approach that demystifies problematic drug use, as well as an integrative harm reduction approach that provides a road map for helping therapists help their clients rethink their relationship with substances. You’ll explore:

Seven therapeutic tasks for engaging and promoting positive change for clients who struggle with drug use and other risky and addictive behaviors
Harm reduction principles that facilitate healing relational experiences
Approaches to help drug-using clients overcome the shame and guilt that often derails therapy
Mindfulness-based strategies for sitting with uncomfortable urges and feelings

Program Information

Objectives

Justify how the harm-reduction stance is essential to effective treatment across the spectrum of addictive severity.
Catalogue seven therapeutic tasks that combine relational psychodynamic, CBT, and mindfulness interventions to promote positive change with addictive behaviors.
Utilize the Microanalysis to assess how addictive behavior reflects the interplay of biology, meaning, habit, and social context.
Demonstrate Urge Surfing to improve affect acceptance and tolerance.
Demonstrate Unwrapping the Urge to explore the meaning and function of the addictive urge.

Outline

The journey to Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP)
A harm reduction frame as essential to effective helping
Challenges of working with people who struggle with drugs in clinical practice
The maligning of addiction
A re-humanized understanding of problematic substance use
Selected techniques demonstrated

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

The Seven Myths of Addiction

For twelve years Dr. Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV, including at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site.

In his recent bestselling book In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts, he draws on cutting-edge science to illuminate where and how addictions originate and what they have in common. Contrary to what is often claimed, the source of addictions is not to be found in genes, but in the early childhood environment where the neurobiology of the brain’s reward pathways develops and where the emotional patterns that lead to addiction are wired into the unconscious. Stress, both then and later in life, creates the predisposition for addictions, whether to drugs, alcohol, nicotine or to behavioral addictions such as shopping or sex. Helping the addicted individual requires that we appreciate the function of the addiction in his or her life.

Once we recognize the roots of addiction and the lack it strives (in vain) to fill, we can develop a compassionate approach toward the addict, one that stands the best chance of restoring him or her to wholeness and health.

Program Information

Objectives

Appraise the economics, cultural, psychological and neurobiological roots of addiction and addictive behaviors.
Evaluate 7 common myths surrounding addiction and addictive behaviors.
Investigate the role of “choice” in the development of addiction.

Outline

What is the source of addictions?
What happens chemically and physiologically in the brains of people with substance dependency or behaviour addiction?
The false “blessings” of addiction as experienced by the addict (e.g., as emotional anaesthetic, as personality booster, as social lubricant)
The development of the addicted mind: how early childhood experiences shape the brain
The social basis of addiction in economic, cultural and political dislocation and disempowerment
How much choice does the addict really have, and how much responsibility?

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals