Schedule
DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY THREE | DAY FOUR
DAY ONE Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Pre-conference workshop with David Burns, M.D.
The Seven Deadly Addictions: How Paradoxical Agenda Setting Can Boost Your Effectiveness in the Treatment of Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Relationship Problems, Binge Eating, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and Procrastination
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
In my 35 years of practice, I've developed scores of powerful psychotherapy techniques, but one has stood out as extraordinarily important in working with every patient and critically important with more challenging patients who don't respond to our best efforts to help. I call this technique Paradoxical Agenda-Setting (PAS). In this workshop, I’ll show you exactly how PAS works and how to help patients struggling with Depression, Anxiety disorders, Relationship problems, and Habits and addictions such as binge eating, drug and alcohol abuse, and procrastination.
What exactly is Paradoxical Agenda-Setting? Paradoxical Agenda Setting is the point where the science and art of psychotherapy come together, where strong, conflicted emotions are frequently expressed, and where the real magic of therapy frequently occurs. The mystic, Anthony De Mello, has said that “We yearn for change, but cling to the familiar.” We see this every day in our work as therapists. Nearly all patients will say they truly want to change, but then they “yes-but” us, “forget” to do their psychotherapy homework, or insist that things are hopeless. These complaints usually result from two basic types of resistance that I’ve called “Outcome Resistance” and “Process Resistance.” Outcome resistance means that the patient has strong (but frequently subconscious) negative feelings about recovery for a wide variety of healthy and unhealthy reasons. Process Resistance refers to the fact that the patient may want to change, but doesn’t want to pay the price of change.
In this workshop, I’ll show you how to identify and reverse the eight most common types of Outcome Resistance and Process Resistance. This training can help you motivate your most resistant and oppositional clients, dramatically enhance your clinical effectiveness, and speed up the recovery process, no matter what your therapeutic orientation may be, and no matter what types of patients you treat.
This is not a cognitive therapy workshop. PAS is a fundamental and powerful technique that can easily be integrated with any therapeutic style or orientation. PAS is, essentially, psychotherapy on steroids. In fact, this workshop is for any therapist who wants to jump to the next orbit in his or her clinical work. Teaching methods will include lecture, Q and A, demonstrations, and exercises that will bring these methods to life for you.
In this training session, you’ll learn how to
• identify the eight most common forms of therapeutic resistance
• become the “voice” of the patient’s subconscious resistance
• overcome Outcome Resistance with the Magic Button and the Magic Dial
• defeat Process Resistance with the Gentle Ultimatum and the Paradoxical Cost-Benefit Analysis
• paradox habits and addictions with the Devil’s Advocate Technique
• hold with open hands (like the Buddha)
• accelerate recovery
Therapists who have attended my two-day workshops may already be familiar with PAS. However, this technique is so challenging to learn, and so powerful, that I felt it warranted a full-day program to give you the chance to master this incredible treatment method. It can literally transform your practice and philosophy of therapy as well. This is a workshop I've been looking forward to for a long time. I hope you can join us!
– Dr. David Burns
Evening session with David Burns, M.D. | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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Conference: Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions, and Related Disorders
Conference format: Attend 3 keynote presentations each morning of the conference. You have the option of attending 1 of 4 afternoon concurrent sessions of your choice. We have scheduled two afternoon sessions each day of the conference. The first afternoon concurrent session is held between 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm and the second afternoon session is held between 3:15 pm and 5:00 pm. Participants have the option of attending the session of their choice. Please note that the some of the sessions are a continuation of the earlier session.
DAY TWO Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
– keynote session
– breakout sessions (choose one)
KEYNOTE SESSIONS
Transdiagnostic Approaches to Treating Anxiety Disorders
Martin Antony, Ph.D. | November 17th, 2010
First Keynote | 8:45 am – 9:45 am
This keynote presentation will discuss recently developed anxiety disorder treatments that target multiple anxiety problems at once. These psychological interventions are useful for individuals who suffer from more than one anxiety disorder. They can also be used in group therapy for clients with different types of anxiety disorders.
Understanding Multiple Addictions: Addiction Interaction Disorder
Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. | November 17th, 2010
Second Keynote | 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Few addicts (about 17%) have only one addiction. Usually they have a mix of addictions, compulsions, and deprivations, which creates a complex problem called addiction interaction disorder. Failure to recognize this in patients is one of the top three factors in relapse and inhibited recovery. Participants will be trained to do an addiction interaction screen. Participants will also learn about the role of addictions and deprivations as a solution to trauma.
Childhood Trauma and Substance Abuse
Colin Ross, M.D. | November 17th, 2010
Third Keynote | 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
More information forthcoming.
FIRST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Understanding and Treating Chronic Worry
Martin Antony, Ph.D. | November 17th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This session provides in-depth training on the nature and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and chronic worry. The presentation begins with a discussion on the latest thinking on the psychopathology of GAD, including diagnostic issues, epidemiology, biological and psychological correlates, and theories of etiology. Most of the session will emphasize evidence-based treatments for GAD and worry. Attendees will learn about the current status of biological interventions, including medications and evidence-based alternative approaches (e.g., herbal products). Detailed, step-by-step guidelines for cognitive therapy, relaxation training, imaginal exposure, mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches, and other evidence-based methods will also be provided. Participants will receive a comprehensive handout, as well as a complete list of recommended readings.
This workshop is continued in the second afternoon concurrent session.
Sex, Money and Power: The Dark Passengers of Dual Diagnosis
Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. | November 17th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Politicians, clergy, physicians, and business leaders are particularly vulnerable to addictive patterns. While chemical addictions are the easiest to talk about, leadership of any type creates special vulnerabilities around sex, power, and money which are like the “dark passengers” no one wishes to acknowledge. When we see them for what they are we learn that they do not just coexist, they interact. Achievement and addiction are very connected. Understanding the patterns of connection are critical for successful intervention and treatment of multiple issues. To see those patterns clearly requires testing some of our own “dark passengers” as well.
The Link Between Trauma, Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder
Colin Ross, M.D. | November 17th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This session will provide techniques and skills that will help you with your clients in the treatment of trauma, depression and borderline personality disorder using the Trauma Model. Trauma Model Therapy involves a mix of cognitive-behavioural and expressive therapies. It is suitable for a wide range of Axis I and II disorders and addictions, and for the extensive co-morbidity common in borderline personality disorder.
This workshop is continued in the second afternoon concurrent session.
Ground Zero: The Impact of Addiction on the Family
Dale MacIntyre, M.Div., R.C.C. | November 17th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The effects of addiction on the family can be nothing short of catastrophic, and when the focus of effort and attention is on the addicted individual, the health of those who have been regularly exposed to the addict’s behavior is often overlooked or minimized. This “collateral damage” is not only traumatizing and corrosive, but far-reaching in its implications for the health of the individual, the family system and the community.
This workshop is continued in the second afternoon concurrent session.
SECOND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Understanding and Treating Chronic Worry
Martin Antony, Ph.D. | November 17th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop is continued from the first afternoon concurrent session.
Eroticized Rage and Other Sexualized Feelings: Courtship, Compulsion and Cybersex
Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. | November 17th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Each of us has an “arousal template’ which governs our sexual attraction and relationships. Developmental problems, trauma and abuse, family messages, and life experiences can significantly damage that template. Key to understanding how that template works is eroticized feelings such as anger, fear, and shame. By focusing only on behavior and cognitive distortions, therapists will miss key factors in courtship and sexual compulsion. No place is that better illustrated than in cybersex addiction, which is sometimes called the crack-cocaine of sex addiction.
The Link Between Trauma, Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder
Colin Ross, M.D. | November 17th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop is continued from the first afternoon concurrent session.
Ground Zero: The Impact of Addiction on the Family
Dale MacIntyre, M.Div., R.C.C. | November 17th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop is continued from the first afternoon concurrent session.
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DAY THREE Thursday, November 18th, 2010
– keynote session
– breakout sessions (choose one)
KEYNOTE SESSIONS
When the Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection
Gabor Maté, M.D. | November 18th, 2010
First Keynote | 8:45 am – 9:45 am
Emotional stress, especially of the hidden kind that people are not aware of, undermines immunity, disrupts the body's physiological milieu and can prepare the ground for disease. There is strong evidence to suggest that in nearly all chronic conditions, hidden stress is a major predisposing factor. In an important sense, disease in an individual can be seen as the “end point” of a multigenerational emotional process. If properly understood, these conditions can provide important openings for compassion and self-awareness, which in turn are major tools in recovery and healing.
Dr. Maté’s keynote presentation includes research findings, compelling and poignant anecdotes from his own extensive experience in family practice and palliative care, and illuminating biographies of famous people. The presentation is based on When The Body Says No, a best-selling book that has been translated into more than ten languages on five continents.
EMDR: Trauma Therapy Power Tool
Laurel Parnell, Ph.D. | November 18th, 2010
Second Keynote | 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful and effective therapy for treating trauma-based problems. This revolutionary treatment has helped thousands of people recover from such traumas as war, accidents, assaults, disasters and childhood abuse. In addition to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, EMDR is also used to treat the psychological effects of smaller traumas that manifest as symptoms of depression, anxiety, phobias, low self-esteem, creativity blocks and relationship difficulties. There are more controlled research studies on EMDR for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder than any other therapy – most with positive results.
Dr. Parnell will describe EMDR's discovery and development, EMDR's theoretical model, the structure of an EMDR processing session, and present cases from her books. A brief question and answer session will conclude the keynote presentation.
Using Clinical Applications From the New Brain Science to Understand and Improve Relationships
Pat Love, Ed.D. | November 18th, 2010
Third Keynote | 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Research from the field of neurophysiology has shed new light on significant problems related to mental health, more important, it has given us new strategies which can drastically improve relationships. This keynote presentation will explore new information that promises to be both personally and professionally rewarding.
FIRST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS
The Hungry Ghost: A Biopsychological Perspective on Addiction, From Heroin to Workaholism
Gabor Maté, M.D. | November 18th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Gabor Maté currently works as the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In his most recent bestselling book, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, he shows that their addictions do not represent a discrete set of medical disorders; rather, they merely reflect the extreme end of a continuum of addiction, mostly hidden, that runs throughout our society.
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 the 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 behavioural addictions such as shopping or sex.
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.
This workshop is continued in the second afternoon concurrent session.
Resource Tapping: Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bi-lateral Stimulation
Laurel Parnell, Ph.D. | November 18th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
In this session we will learn how to begin using Resource Tapping – a powerful, highly effective Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)-related technique that harnesses the power of imagery and bilateral body stimulation to achieve deep healing. Through lecture and experiential exercises, Dr. Parnell will show us how to use the basic, breakthrough tools of this clinically recognized system, which has demonstrated the capacity to build resilience, aid in healing, and calm the body on a deep physiological level.
Emotional Self-Regulation: Clinical Skills and Strategies for Therapists
Pat Love, Ed.D. | November 18th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The goal of emotional self-regulation is to move you toward well-being at any given time. It includes the ability to influence your thoughts, feelings and behavior while paying attention to the consequences of each; more specifically emotional self-regulation is about managing those activities that are important, pleasurable and rewarding as well as those which are irrelevant, archaic and incongruent with mental health – and developing the wisdom to know the difference.
If I Had Known Then What I Know Now: A Changing Perspective of Addiction Treatment
Gary Richardson, M.D. | November 18th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Dr. Gary Richardson’s awareness and understanding of the complexities of the disease of addiction has evolved and developed over the course of his medical career: a career spanning early practice in South Africa, Emergency medicine in Saskatchewan, Family medicine on Vancouver Island and culminating in his current practice of full-time Addiction Medicine at EDGEWOOD.
In this session, Dr. Richardson shares his experience and the valuable insights he has gained due to his changing perspective in the treatment of this challenging disease.
This workshop is continued in the second afternoon concurrent session.
SECOND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS
The Hungry Ghost: A Biopsychological Perspective on Addiction, From Heroin to Workaholism
Gabor Maté, M.D. | November 18th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop is continued from the first afternoon concurrent session.
Attachment-Focused EMDR: A Client-Centred Therapy for Healing Childhood Trauma and Neglect
Laurel Parnell, Ph.D. | November 18th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Attachment-focused EMDR is a new model of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) developed by Dr. Parnell that adapts this powerful and effective trauma therapy to the needs of clients with attachment wounds. In this session, you will learn how the standard EMDR protocol can be modified so that it flows more easily, supports client safety, maintains the therapeutic connection and enhances attunement.
In this session, Dr. Parnell will present the five basic principles of Attachment-Focused EMDR and how they are implemented in the treatment of traumatized clients with attachment wounds. Case material and video clips of sessions will be used to illustrate key points.
The Truth About Love Addiction: Research Advances on the Biology and Chemistry of Attraction
Pat Love, Ed.D. | November 18th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Maintaining healthy relationships is the mark of mental health and happiness, however, this task is far more difficult today due to the proximity of unlimited temptations via the social media as well as face-to-face contact. Vital to contentment is understanding: the nature of infatuation; the risk of the dopamine high; and the warning signs of love addiction. This session explores this important issue that has the power to destroy families, friends and functional living.
If I Had Known Then What I Know Now: A Changing Perspective of Addiction Treatment
Gary Richardson, M.D. | November 18th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop is continued from the first afternoon concurrent session.
Body Resources for Therapists
Penny Allport | November 18th, 2010
Evening Session | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Gravity blesses each of us with a reliable intelligence, and speaks through the language of sensation in every moment. Our experience through body movement and sensation can continue to surprise us and support our capacity to sit with another. To sit in the seat of our somatic experience strengthens the emergence and integration of meaning at a sub-cortical level, which is experienced by those with whom we sit as a sense of safety and stability. We will explore movement, breath, sound and creative pathways of imagination to harvest resources which can inspire a daily practice to support our personal and professional practice.
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DAY FOUR Friday, November 19th, 2010
– keynote session
– breakout sessions (choose one)
KEYNOTE SESSIONS
Integrative Medicine and the Power to Heal
Carolyn Coker Ross, M.D. | November 19th, 2010
First Keynote | 8:45 am – 9:45 am
Integrative therapies offer a unique advantage in the treatment of trauma, addictions and eating disorders. Newer research evidence is enhancing our understanding of what happens in the brain of those suffering from addictions or eating disorders and those who have a history of trauma. Taken along with research on the hyperactivity of the stress response in these same individuals, a picture is emerging that supports the need for nutritional support, stress management and rehabilitation of the brain.
The integrative medicine approach uses evidence-based techniques that have the ability, when added with conventional therapies, to improve outcomes and promote healing of body, mind and spirit.
The Spectrum of Life Trauma: From Attachment Disorder to Combat Stress
Robert Scaer, M.D. | November 19th, 2010
Second Keynote | 9:45 am – 10:45 am
This keynote presentation discusses the critical role of maternal/infant attunement in the developing brain, the revisioning of the dx of PTSD to incorporate the rapidly growing concept of complex trauma and DESNOS, and the poorly appreciated role of cultural institutions in life trauma. Attention will be given to the restructuring of concepts and definitions in the trauma field, to better understand the bell curve of trauma.
The Clinical Face of Anger in the DSM-IV and Beyond
Ray DiGiuseppe, Ph.D. | November 19th, 2010
Third Keynote | 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Presently, no anger disorders exist in The DSM-IV TR. This keynote presentation will review how anger has been presented as a form of human frailty from the classical philosophers until the present. A review of how anger symptoms appear in DSM and how they are comorbid with Axis I & II disorders will follow. A review of the research on the nature of anger and the consequences of dysfunctional anger will provide the basis for understanding how anger can be conceptualized as an independent dysfunctional syndrome. Strategies for assessing and treating dysfunctional anger will be reviewed. New strategies for intervention will be proposed based on what we know about dysfunctional anger.
FIRST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Integrative Therapies for Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders
Carolyn Coker Ross, M.D. | November 19th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This session uses a combination of experiential exercises, lecture, and small group work to teach the philosophy behind integrative medicine approaches to clients with eating disorders and addictions and specific techniques that you can use in your practice. You will be able to experience and practice these proven strategies to enhance your understanding and ability to support recovery, reduce relapse and help promote true healing. You will also have the opportunity to discuss difficult cases with Dr. Ross, who has been described as a pioneer in the use of integrative medicine for the treatment of mental illness.
This workshop is continued in the second afternoon concurrent session.
Trauma, the Freeze Response, and its Clinical Syndromes
Robert Scaer, M.D. | November 19th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This session will present the basic concepts of trauma neurophysiology and how it affects autonomic and limbic regulation, with resulting pathological clinical syndromes and diseases. This is the basis for the definition of all posttraumatic syndromes, including dissociation, which will be discussed in the following afternoon session.
Developing the Therapeutic Alliance with Angry Clients
Ray DiGiuseppe, Ph.D. | November 19th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
People have little desire to change their anger. Most clients coming for anger problems wish to change the targets of their anger and have little insight or desire for self-change. This severely affects the therapeutic alliance. In this session, strategies for developing increasing motivation for change in angry clients will be detailed.
Solution-Focused Strategies for “Unlocking” Change
Nancy McConkey, M.S.W. | November 19th, 2010
First Afternoon Concurrent Session | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This workshop gives you powerful, practical, solution-focused skills that are effective with a wide range of clinical problems. Learn solution-focused skills that you can begin using immediately for “unlocking” change. Workshop includes taped and live demonstrations. You will learn:
• How to shift a meeting from “problem talk” to “solution talk”
• 8 types of solution-focused skills
• Solution-focused homework tasks that amplify change
• How to motivate “difficult” clients
• How to use SF skills in therapy groups, case meetings, and within your organization
This workshop is continued in the second afternoon concurrent session.
SECOND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Integrative Therapies for Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders
Carolyn Coker Ross, M.D. | November 19th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop is continued from the first afternoon concurrent session.
New Theories of Dissociation and Healing
Robert Scaer, M.D. | November 19th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
This session will cover the essential ingredients in healing, and how the various forms of therapy, especially somatically-based techniques, are neurophysiologically based.
Cognitive Restructuring and Exposure Treatments for Anger
Ray DiGiuseppe, Ph.D. | November 19th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Once angry clients are motivated to change, three interventions have provided the most help in changing anger. In this session, using Cognitive interventions with anger clients will be discussed and clinical examples will be provided. Exposure imagery can be used to reduce the intensity of anger and the desire for revenge. Problems and resolutions to implementing these interventions will be discussed. Angry clients frequently have failed to learn behaviors to resolve personal conflicts. Teaching clients strategies to handle such conflicts will be presented.
Solution-Focused Strategies for “Unlocking” Change
Nancy McConkey, M.S.W. | November 19th, 2010
Second Afternoon Concurrent Session | 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop is continued from the first afternoon concurrent session.
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