Previous workshop topics include:

• Addiction and Attachment Disorders: A New Understanding of 12 – Step Recovery
• Addiction and Shame: Unlocking the Power
• Addictions and Confused Identity: Healing with the Creative Power of Thought
• AIDS and HIV: Responding to the Unique Challenges of a Multi – Faceted Community
• Ambulatory Detoxification Protocols
• ASAM Patient Placement Criteria
• Being on a Mission: The Role of Spirituality in the Life of Substance Abusers
• Chemical Dependency Assessments for the New Millennium
• Chemical Dependency: The Century Re-visited
• Clinical Issues in treating Chemically Dependent Gay and Lesbian Clients
• Cognitive Therapy
• Community Reinforcement Approach
• Comprehensive Drug and Alcohol Assessments Tools
• Dealing with Resentments in Recovery
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
• DSM – IV Criteria
• Dual Focus Treatment
• Eating Disorders and the Chemically Dependent Client
• Effective DWI Screening and Assessments
• Eidetic Image Therapy: Diagnosis and Treatment of Chemical Dependency
• Ethics, Confidentiality and Misconduct: The “Do’s” and “Don’ts” of Working with Substance Abusers
• Experiential Techniques for Treatment of Addiction and Codependency
• Family Resistance to Addiction and Codependency Treatment
• Finding the Love You Want: Relationships in Recovery
• Flying Beneath the Radar: Developing Contact and Communication in Early Recovery
• Genetic Influences: Understanding the Biology of Substance Abuse Disorders
• Getting Through the Holidays in Recovery
• Group Work Skills for the Substance Abuse Professional: Helping Addicts Help Each Other
• Healing Shame
• Healing the Angry Heart: Anger and Rage in the Substance Abuse Client
• HIV/AIDS and Women of Color: Meeting the Challenge
• Isolates and Dyads: Negotiating the Single and Coupled Worlds
• Latest Intervention Strategies
• Managing Trauma in Substance Abuse Treatment
• Midlife Crisis, Midlife Recovery: A Family Systems Approach
• Motivational Interviewing
• My Family, My Self
• My Father, Myself
• My Mother, Myself
• My Mother, My Father, Myself and Shame
• Outpatient Detoxification from Alcohol and Drugs: Review of Basic Concepts
• Overcoming Roadblocks to Recovery: The New Brain Science of Addiction, Trauma and Shame
• Perfectionism
• Relapse Prevention for Couples in Recovery
• Relapse Prevention for Perpetrators of Abuse and Violence
• Relapse Prevention for Victims of Abuse and Invalidation
• Resolutions: How to Make Them, How to Keep Them
• Restructuring the Chemically Dependent Family
• Self-Esteem Issues for Women in Treatment
• Sociometry: Making the Covert Overt
• Somatic Experiencing & Focalizing: An Integration of Innovative, Soulful & Energetic Approaches to Addiction & Trauma Healing
• Special Issues for Women in Treatment
• Substance Abusing Clients with Personality Disorders
• Systemic Family Intervention: An Invitational Model
• Teaching Assertiveness Skills as a Relapse Prevention Act Instead of React
• The 12 Steps and Psychotherapy: Mutual Empowerment of Resistance to Each Other?
• The Americans with Disabilities Act: Reviewing its Mandate
• The Chemically Dependent Person has Agreed to Treatment: Now What?
• The Diagnosis and Treatment of Substance Related Disorders with Coexisting Psychiatric Disorders
• The Family Picture Album: Addictions and Family Dynamics
• Using the Stages of Change (SOC) Model of Substance Abuse Counseling
• Working With African American Youths in Chemical Dependency Treatment
• Working with African Americans in Chemical Dependency Treatment