Sunday, November 4, 2012

Training Event: Addictions & Relationships

*** Please note, the training event has been re-scheduled for early 2013. 

E-mail Candace directly candace@candaceplattor.com to find out more information and be added to the waitlist for this training. She has also advised me that she can offer shorter presentations for professional development for small groups, such a team training days, etc. 

Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself - Counselling the Love Ones of Addicts Workshop 
There are many types of addictive behaviors that people choose to engage in to hide from their feelings and their life tasks. Some of the addictions your clients may present with could be alcohol and drug abuse, eating disorders, gambling, smoking, Internet addiction, compulsive over-spending, sex addiction, codependency in relationships, and often a combination of several of the above.

People do not become addicted in isolation, nor do they recover in isolation. Therefore, it becomes imperative to be able to help the families and other loved ones when treating addicted clients so that the entire family dynamic can heal. All too often, loved ones of addicts make critical mistakes when trying to help, ultimately leading to enabling behaviors of their own. Rather than actually helping, loved ones can unwittingly become “addicted to the addict’s addiction.” This creates a lose-lose situation for everyone involved.

When the loved ones of your addicted clients can understand the intrinsic differences between helping and enabling, as well as how vitally important it is to be able to set and maintain appropriate, self-respectful boundaries with the addicts in their lives, the whole dysfunctional system can begin to repair itself.

Whether your client is the spouse, partner, parent, child, or friend of an addict, the key to a healthy and stable recovery lies in helping them shift their focus away from their loved one’s addiction to their own self-care, thus coming off the roller-coaster chaos of addiction and ultimately living their own best lives.

Workshop Objectives:

1. Exploring the special needs of clients who are loved ones of addicts and discovering strategies that best address their desire for change.
2. Becoming aware of your own personal triggers when working with loved ones and how to manage transference/countertransference issues in therapy sessions.
3. Assisting your clients to differentiate between their ‘helping’ and ‘enabling’ behaviors, so that they can begin to set and maintain healthier, self-respecting boundaries.
4. Learning to help clients come off the emotional roller coaster of being ‘addicted to the addict’s addiction’ and focus on their own lives with holistic self-care.


Dates: November 9-10, 2012
Time: 9:30-4:30
Location: Adler School of Professional Psychology, Vancouver, BC


Fee: $380.00
Limit: 30 participants – Register Early!


To register: contact Kirsten Pool at kpool@adler.edu or Candace Plattor at candace@candaceplattor.com

Candace is offering free resources to therapists on her website (see below). 

• Chapter 1 of "Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself."
• A document that can be handed out to clients with questions from "Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Workbook."
• An article I wrote for those of us in the therapy/healing field titled When Healers Burn Out: Causes and Prevention of Occupational Stress Among Health Care Professionals 


Website:
http://www.candaceplattor.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/LovingAnAddictLovingYourself
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/candaceplattor


Candace has also written two books:

Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction - Chapter 1   “Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction.”

Questions from Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Workbook  "Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Workbook."  
 
Both books can be purchased through Amazon.com
http://amzn.to/NGBJLk ,
Amazon.ca
http://amzn.to/VkuMjH , Chapters Indigo http://bit.ly/OM4Ybs and many bookstores throughout Canada and the US as well as bookstores in the UK and Australia. 

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