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A successful addiction recovery process involves ongoing, supportive social connections and lifestyle changes that require new roles, relationships and resources for navigating daily life. Understand the treatment challenges that addictive thinking poses long after the substance use has stopped, and learn to support clients through direct experiences that cultivate ways of thinking and problem-solving for a satisfying life in recovery. Examine addiction treatment strategies that introduce experiences that facilitate your client’s ability to learn about the tools of recovery while trying them out in real time. Learn creative/experiential methods using evidence-based techniques that engage your clients in the process of learning skills they need to use and reciprocate social support, manage cravings and the difficult emotions and stresses that drive them, and work through the many changes that come with shifting into life beyond active addiction. This course is an introduction to the theory and techniques that facilitate learning through direct engagement that integrates cognitive, emotional and social functioning.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
1. Identify the five phases of a creative/experiential exercise designed for an addiction treatment group
2. Group warm-up techniques and know how to structure them for targeted goals
3. Incorporate techniques that cultivate specific skills needed for successful ongoing recovery
4. Better understand the creative process of crafting new roles and relationships that replace the addictive thinking process
5. Develop techniques that redirect addictive thinking patterns of denial, desire for control and isolation
6. Understand research that supports the use of creative/experiential methods to promote the goals of addiction treatment
7. Identify outside resources for ongoing practice and knowledge development
1. Identify the five phases of a creative/experiential exercise designed for an addiction treatment group
2. Group warm-up techniques and know how to structure them for targeted goals
3. Incorporate techniques that cultivate specific skills needed for successful ongoing recovery
4. Better understand the creative process of crafting new roles and relationships that replace the addictive thinking process
5. Develop techniques that redirect addictive thinking patterns of denial, desire for control and isolation
6. Understand research that supports the use of creative/experiential methods to promote the goals of addiction treatment
7. Identify outside resources for ongoing practice and knowledge development