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2 CE/CME credits available

Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior (IAHB) and the Pacific Hills Treatment Centers, Inc. have entered into a joint sponsorship agreement to provide quality educational activities that are available for professional continuing education credit.

IAHB is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization located in Portola Valley, California. Its mission is to provide innovative, top quality continuing education and continuing medical education activities for professionals. The Institute's programs encompass a comprehensive and multidisciplinary array of educational activities in the form of workshops, conferences, multi-media home-study materials, and customized training programs. IAHB has been approved as a provider of continuing education and continuing medical education by the organizations listed.

The Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior (IAHB) has been approved as a provider of continuing education and continuing medical education by the organizations listed below.

ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ABUSE COUNSELORS:

Approved by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Approved Provider Program (NAADAC Approved Education Provider #187) for 2 CEHs. Provider approved by CAADAC, Provider #4S-86-074-0109 an ICRC member which has reciprocity with most ICRC member states, for 2 CEHs.

COUNSELORS & MFTs:

IAHB is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for national Certified Counselors. IAHB adheres to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines (NBCC Provider #5216). This course meets the qualifications for MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider # PCE 36).

NURSES:

IAHB is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Utah Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation(ANCC).(UNA=1.2 contact hours per hour attended, Provider Code P06-02) Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP#2672) for 2 credit hours.

PHYSICIANS:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior, A Medical Education Company (IAHB-AMEDCO) and Pacific Hills Treatment Centers, Inc. IAHB-AMEDCO is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. IAHB-AMEDCO designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

PSYCHOLOGISTS:

IAHB is approved by the American Psychological Assoc. (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IAHB maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

SOCIAL WORKERS:

This course meets the qualifications for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider #PCE-36).
In all cases, IAHB as the approved sponsor maintains responsibility for the educational activity offered and for following the standards and regulations for the organizations listed above.

CE Workshop Speakers:

Max Schneider, M.D., CADC, FASAM

Max A. Schneider, M.D., FASAM, Director of Education, Positive Action Center at Chapman Medical Center, Orange, California, a Fellow and past president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), a Past Chair and current Member of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), a past consultant to the Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a former Certified Medical Review Officer. Educated at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, he has been active in the field of addiction medicine since 1953 and currently serves as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine (Addiction Medicine) at the University of California at Irvine College of Medicine. He has produced ten films and five booklets on addiction; authored over 60 papers and has lectured in 49 states, three Canadian provinces and six countries. In 1995 he was named Doctor of the Year by the Orange County Medical Association and presented the Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching by the 1995 University of California at Irvine Medical College graduating class.

OVERVIEW OF ADDICTIONS

1. The Disease of Addiction
2. Who, Why, When
3. What To Do About It
4. Co-Dependence
5. Dual Diagnosis
6. Relapse
7. The Chronicity of This Disease

CE Objectives:

1. Understand the medical, emotional, social, spiritual disease called
2. Recognize the family dynamics
3. Become aware of various methods of treating patients with addiction

Steve Davidson, Ph.D.

Steve Davidson, PhD, is a licensed psychologist (PSY13162). He graduated from Whittier College, and the California School of Professional Psychology/San Diego, with concentrations in clinical and organizational psychology. He has taught psychology at La Verne and Alliant Universities. He has 30 years experience in the field, including testing, counseling, and managing a unit in a psychiatric hospital. His main current interest, in addition to addictive processes, are the ways that character and culture shape decisions and behavior. He recently gave talks on this topic to professional groups in Hawaii and Greece. He has had published in monograph form his own theory of personality and psychotherapy operations. Dr. Davidson is available for assessments, counseling, consultations, and trainings, and has an office on Quail Street in Newport Beach.

Addicted Family Dynamics

A. Theoretical Considerations Psychoactive

1. The Operations System Model
2. A Quick Review of Dynamics & An Application of
   Dynamics to Addiction
3. Application of Dynamics to the Family
4. Dynamics and Character: The Blend of Emotions and
   Patterns (Axis I-Axis II);   
5. Family Roles & Co-Dependence

B. Assessment

C. A Treatment Approach: Learning & Motivational Interviewing (MI)

1. Desensitization & AA
   1. Dealing with Underlying Anxiety & Depression
   2. Stopping Using Substances to Deal with Negative
2. Moods & Cognitions
3. The Containing Structure of Options & Consequences
4. Negativity & Positive (Demonstration & Practice)
   1. Rolling with the Negative/Accommodating Resistance
   2. Differential Reinforcement of the Positive
5. Strategic Active Listening: Summing Up the Negatives & Showcasing the Positives Modeling Cognitive Processes (Demonstration & Practice)

D. Summary of Key Points & Techniques

E. Q & A

CE Objectives:

1. Understand the relation of underlying dynamics to Addiction.
2. Understand the relation of dynamics to family behaviors and relationships.
3. Know 1 or more means of assessing addictive dynamics and behavior.
4. Be able to apply rolling with the resistance to family interviewing.
5. Be able to apply strategic active listening to family interviewing.

Norm Boshoff, M.Div., Th.M.

Addiction destroys. Norm Boshoff knows. Alcohol cost him all he loved and had achieved. Born in South Africa, he excelled in education (quickly acquiring two Bachelor degrees, with honors, and two Masters Degrees in communication and theology). Norm was quickly propelled into his first ministry where he served as senior pastor of a mega-church.

As his leadership as pastor of a burgeoning church, popular television minister and effective fundraiser drew wide recognition, his interior personal life slowly grew dark, sick and non-functional. He was imploding under the weight of a spiritual, emotional and a biological sickness. Thinking God had withheld healing, he had no place to turn. His environment offered shame where Grace, support and ultimately, quality treatment were needed to restore his life.

He has now personally worked a proven spiritual program of lasting sobriety for over 15 years, providing a daily reprieve from the chronic, progressive disease of alcoholism. Grateful, he has embraced a deeper ministry offering his experience, strength and hope to the many soul-sick alcoholics and addicts he encounters daily.

Norm's experience has shown that for lasting, quality recovery, the entire family must commit to a treatment process. Norm Boshoff is the president of Restoration Interventions, a national intervention company. A popular speaker and seminar leader, Norm has embraced the practice of intervention as his calling, and the giving away of his life, his passion.

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