Training: Addictions, Clinical Hypnosis & Expressive Therapies

Defining and Dealing with Addiction in the 21st Century 

by Stanton Peele, Ph.D.

Date & Time: Friday, November 29th, 2013 (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
Location: University Golf Club - 5185 UNIVERSITY BLVD, Vancouver, BC V6T 1X5

About the Presenter:

Stanton Peele has been at the forefront of thinking about addiction since the publication of his book (with Archie Brodsky), Love and Addiction, in 1975. That work showed, almost forty years before its recognition by the American Psychiatric Association, that addiction is not a side product of drugs, but is a direct result of powerful but negative experiences in which people become immersed. 

In eight books Dr. Peele has written since then — including The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addition and Recovery, and 7 Tools to Beat Addiction — Dr. Peele has continued to pioneer concepts of harm reduction, life-functioning-oriented treatments, and purpose and values as beacons in recovery, while he has disputed the benefits of the disease concept of addiction. 

Dr. Peele has developed the Life Process Program for treating addiction both residentially, and on-line. His next book (with Ilse Thompson) Recover! Stop Thinking Like an Addiction, attacks the mind sets that cause addiction, while presenting a mindfulness-based treatment, The PERFECT Program(T).

Recognition for Dr. Peele's academic achievements in addiction has included the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drug Policy Alliance.

About the Workshop:

We must be prepared for a new— but shifting — concept of addiction, so as to be true to psychological theory and evidence-based techniques, responsive to the range of clinical addictive problems clients may present, and make use of the soundest scientific concepts.

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand DSM-5 substance use disorder (SUD) definitions and their implications
2. To understand developments, current and likely in the future, in the definition and treatment of addiction
3. To understand concept, and primary examples of, evidence-based treatments
4. To understand application of addiction concept to nonsubstance-use activities
5. To understand meaning of harm reduction and range of HR applications
6. To understand relationship between psychological concepts and twelve-step Tx and AA
7. To understand developments in neuroscience, their limits, and their meaning and applicability to psychological Tx
8. To understand natural recovery and its implication for Tx
9. To understand the contours of addiction in coming decades and the social implications
10. To consider child-rearing in relationship to addiction, past, present, future
    
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Daniel Brown, PhD

Integrating Hypnosis and Attachment Disorders

Saturday, December 7^th 2013 

Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis: BC Division 

Paetzold Education Centre, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC

Sophisticated assessment tools are available to identify attachment pathology in adults. Less attention, however, has been paid to the development of effective treatment protocols. This workshop is specifically about state-of-the-art, effective ways to treat insecure attachment pathology, primarily in personality and dissociative disorder patients. Teaching format: lecture, demonstration, and case presentation. Hypnosis training recommended but not required.

Dr. Brown is Director, Center for Integrative Psychotherapy, Newton MA, Associate Clinical Prochology, Harvard Medical School; taught hypnotherapy for 41 years. His 14 books include 3 books on hypnosis style. He spent 40 years studying Buddhist meditation and contributed to 2 books of East-West dialogues in psychology with H.H. The Dalai Lama. His current research is on the contribution of early attachment to complex trauma.

To download a Registration form visit www.hypnosis.bc.caEarly Bird rates available prior to November 8^th

(604) 688-1714, admin@hypnosis.bc.ca

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Heal via Play
Individual, Child and Family Therapy Services
www.healviaplay.com

JOIN US from February 28 to March 2 2014 for the conference on Play and Process: In Play, Sandplay and Expressive Therapies 

Organized by BC Play Therapy Association and Canadian Association for Sandplay Therapy 

Register: www.bcpta-cast-conference2014.com