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Thursday, Oct. 2 | Friday, Oct. 3 | Saturday, Oct. 4
| 9:15AM - 10:15AM |
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Conference Registration |
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Conference Registration at The Las Vegas Hilton |
| 10:15AM - 12:00PM |
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Keynote Presentation |
Mindfulness & Acceptance in Clinical Practice
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.
Nevada Foundation Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Developer, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Author, Get Out of Your Mind
This presentation reviews the growing base of support using mindfulness and acceptance methods in clinical practice. Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is described as an example of these methods.
A Day Without Pain: Clinical Issues in Treatment of Pain,
Suffering and Drug Dependence
 Mel Pohl, M.D., FASAM
Medical Director, Las Vegas Recovery Center, Author, A Day Without Pain
(to be released September ’08)
Chronic Pain is a syndrome including a complicated web of emotions and physical symptoms. The most common way to treat pain is to use opioid medications which actually complicate the course of chronic pain. For some, addiction makes matters worse. This session will review the interaction of pain, suffering and addiction as they interface in our clients with suggestions for intervention and treatment.
| 3:00PM - 4:30PM |
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Skill Building Workshops |
Using Mindfulness & Acceptance to Create a Powerful Therapeutic Relationship
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.
How to create more powerful therapeutic relationships using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. Specific methods are described.
Powerlessness and Higher Power from a Buddhist Perspective . . . Exploring the First Three Steps
Kevin Griffin, M.F.A.
Co-founder, Buddhist Recovery Network, Community Dharma Leader,
trained at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Marin, CA,
Author, One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps
In this workshop we will look at some of the common difficulties people have with Steps One, Two, and Three and how Buddhist practices and teachings can bring a different perspective to our understanding. The workshop will include mindfulness meditation, lecture, discussion, and interactive exercise.
Buprenorphine for Pain and Addiction—Pros and Cons
Karen Miotto, M.D.
Director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Service, Associate Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA
This presentation will cover buprenorphine pharmacology, patient profiles, prescribing patterns, and optimal treatment outcomes. Important therapeutic considerations for managing patients with pain and addiction on buprenorphine will be highlighted.
| 4:45PM - 6:15PM |
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Skill Building Workshops |
Using Mindfulness & Acceptance to Create a Powerful Therapeutic Relationship
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.
The video application of an ACT model is shown. The relevance of an ACT conception of the therapeutic relationship is shown in the moment to moment interactions.
Immoral, Defective, and Coming Up Short? Exploring Steps Four through Seven with a Buddhist Lens
Kevin Griffin, M.F.A.
In this workshop we will explore the role of inventory in spiritual growth and the ways we heal and change. The workshop will include mindfulness meditation, lecture, discussion, and interactive exercise.
Balancing Pain Relief and Addiction Risks
Karen Miotto, M.D.
This presentation will be an overview of the major issues in treating pain and monitoring for addiction. A clinical perspective of the risks and benefits of opioid use, ranging from concerns about dependence, addiction, and tolerance in managing patients with pain will also be addressed.
Friday, October 3
| 9:00AM - 10:30AM |
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Keynote Presentation |
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Compassion Fatigue: We Care for Others, Who Cares for Us?
 Arthur Freeman, Ed.D.
Visiting Professor, Governors State University, University Park, Il
Counselors are at high risk for depression and burnout. Often termed “compassion fatigue” and burnout, is addressed from the acquisition of symptoms, the manifestation and consequences of fatigue, and the treatment. |
| 11:00AM - 12:30PM |
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Skill Building Workshops |
This Very Moment: Using Mindfulness to Enhance Therapeutic Presence
Ronald D. Siegel, Psy.D.
Private Clinical Practice, Lincoln, MA, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology,
Harvard Medical School, Co-editor, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy,
Co-author, Back Sense: A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the Cycle of Chronic Back Pain
Engaged therapeutic relationships are proving to be key to successful outcomes. This workshop explores how mindfulness practice can help us to be more fully and continuously present throughout our work day, breathing life and interest into all of our clinical encounters.
Medical Treatment of Chronic Pain
A. Kenison Roy III, M.D., FASAM
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tulane Medical School, Medical Director,
Addiction Recovery Resources of New Orleans
This presentation will describe the biopsychosocial treatment of chronic pain disorder. The similarities with addiction will be highlighted and the evidence for the various treatment will be described.
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Patients with Border line Personality Disorders(BPD)
Arthur Freeman, Ed.D.
Patients with personality disorders are rarely referred for the treatment of the personality disorder per se. They more frequently come for treatment of co-morbidity and depression. These individuals can be the most problematic and difficult patients on the clinician’s caseload. This workshop will address the basics of CBT and patients with personality disorders.
| 1:45PM - 3:15PM |
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Skill Building Workshops |
Minestrone for the Mind: Awakening to Mindfulness: 10 Steps for Positive Change
Richard Fields, Ph.D.
Conference Chair, Author of the Newly Released,
Awakening to Mindfulness, and Drugs in Perspective, 7th edition, Private Counseling Practice, Bellevue, WA, Vice-President, MySoberLife, online support network
This dynamic and engaging workshop, gives counselors a new mindfulness tool to help their clients and family sustain recovery. The workshop combines Western Cognitive-Behavioral approaches with Eastern mindfulness practices in a practical and effective manner.
Working with Families with Chronic Pain
Denise Crosson, RN, Ph.D.
Director of Research Programs, Foundation for Recovery, V.P., Clinical Programs,
Central Recovery Treatment
Rob Hunter, Ph.D.
Founder, Problem Gambling Center, Member, Harvard Medical School
of Addictions Review Board, Consultant, Las Vegas Recovery Center
This workshop will explore the effects of chronic pain in a family member, on the other “unaffected” family members and on the family system as a whole. The research in the area of chronic pain and families will be explored with the translation of these findings into specific assessment and treatment strategies for clinicians working in this challenging area.
The Object of My Affection is in My Reflection: Narcissism Wounds and the Challenges of Recovery (Strategies for Healing)
Rokelle Lerner
President, Lerner & Associates, St. Paul, MN; Consultant, Cottonwood de Tucson,
Author, Living in the Comfort Zone: The Gift of Boundaries in Relationships
Many Addicts suffer from false pride, entitlement and grandiosity that exacerbate sobriety. This lecture examines the relational consequences of narcissism and offers tools to clinicians who recognize this destructive dynamic in treatment and recovery.
| 3:45 PM - 5:15PM |
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Skill Building Workshops |
Mindfulness & Intimacy: Advanced Training in Relationship Building
Ronald D. Siegel, Psy.D.
This workshop explores how mindfulness meditation can help our clients and us to develop the affect tolerance and the capacity to be with and understand others—critical element for successful intimate relationships. You’ll learn the three core elements of mindfulness practice, and how to use them to enhance romantic, parent-child, and other intimate interactions.
Boredom and Addiction: The Dangers of Sameness
McWelling Todman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor for Clinical Practice, Director of the Concentration in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department of Psychology, New School For Social Research, New York, NY
This workshop provides an overview of the inter-relationships between boredom, psychopathology and addictive behavior. Methods and strategies for the assessment, monitoring and screening of state and trait boredom as makers for relapse are described and explained.
Transference, Countertransference and Empowerment
in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Denise Crosson, R.N., Ph.D. And Dan Shiode, Ph.D.
This workshop will focus on the phenomena of and interrelationships between transference, counter-transference, and empowerment, as well as their relation to evocative knowledge in therapeutic relationships.
Mindfulness—Healing from Psychological Trauma
 John Briere, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology,
Keck School of Medicine, USC, Director, Psychological
Trauma Program, LAC-USC Medical Center
Recent research indicates that a philosophy and technology of mind developed 2,500 years ago has direct relevance to recovery from traumatic events. This presentation introduces mindfulness principles that can be helpful in the treatment of traumatized clients, both in terms of increasing therapist attunement and client processing of traumatic material. |
| 11:00AM - 12:30PM |
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Skill Building Workshops |
Treating “Bordeline” Symptoms in Victimized Adults
John Briere, Ph.D.
This presentation will outline issues especially relevant to survivors of child abuse and other victimization. Among these are the impact on affect regulation, identity development, and relational capacity, as well as the potential development of PTSD and “acting out” behavior. Participants will learn about specific clinical interventions that can be helpful in these areas.
Exploring the Connection of the Body and Mind in Modifying Chronic Pain
John Lanzillotta, PA
Mindfulness meditation and meditative body awareness have been proven to have increased therapeutic value in treating patients with chronic pain and anxiety.
| 1:45PM - 3:15PM |
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Skill Building Workshops |
Boredom and Addiction: Interventions, Prevention and Positive Psychology
McWelling Todman, Ph.D.
This workshop focuses on strategies for mitigating relapse risk and sustaining sobriety through the reduction of boredom duration and intensity. Remedial and prophylactic tools derived from the field of positive psychology are described and illustrated through the use of case examples.
Helping Addicts find True Happiness
W. Doyle Gentry, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Author, Anger Management for Dummies; and Happiness for Dummies
This workshop looks at addiction as the failed pursuit of happiness. Addicts confuse hedonistic pleasure/excitement/euphoria with authentic happiness. This workshop explores happiness as a complex emotion that includes: feelings of contentment/gratitude, safety, need satisfaction and peace of mind.
Taps, Slaps, Cracks, Scrapes & Sticks: Physical Interventions for Chronic Pain, Part I
Scott Pensivy, PT, ATC (Physical Therapy)
Stephanie Jordan, O.M.D., Psy.D. (Acupuncture)
Richard Bakir, D.C. (Chiropractic)
This workshop explores non-pharmacological interventions in clients with chronic pain. Presenters describe techniques and modalities available through chiropractic, physical therapy and acupuncture.
| 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
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Skill Building Workshops |
True Happiness Explored
W. Doyle Gentry, Ph.D.
The principals of happiness are outlined and described to help everyone.
How Addicts Learn to Cope: Clinical Strategies for Traumatic Pleasure and Traumatic Repetition
Rokelle Lerner
Trauma is interchangeable with intensity and traumatic pleasure responses, which are more difficult to identify and neutralize. This workshop will demonstrate techniques for both identifying and treating traumatic pleasure responses.
Taps, Slaps, Cracks, Scrapes & Sticks: Physical Interventions for Chronic Pain Part II
Scott Pensivy, PT, ATC (Physical Therapy)
Stephanie Jordan, O.M.D., Psy.D. (Acupuncture)
Richard Bakir, D.C. (Chiropractic)
This workshop will continue and allow participants to have hands on experience with techniques described in the first part of this workshop.
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