Sunday, August 1, 2004

Employee Assistance Programs: The Nuts and Bolts of EAPs for Addiction Professionals
Marvin Clifford, PhD
This workshop will provide an overview of employee assistance programming and how addiction counselors interface with EAPs. This workshop will also address diversity and multi-cultural practices in EAPs.


Sobriety Grows in Tress: Using Wilderness Therapy to Treat Substance Abuse in Adolescents
Kevin Riley
This workshop will introduce participants to wilderness therapy and will review outcome research on wilderness therapy. Case examples, video vignettes and experiential process will be used to teach principles of this therapy.


Cultural Competence in Native American Indian Addictions Treatment
Robert Ryan, PhD
This workshop will help to identify the cultural factors in the life areas of Indian people and will increase competence in the addictions treatment for Native people. A key objective will be to understand the impact of culture on social-emotional-physical-intellectual-spiritual life areas of Native People and addictions treatment.


Spirit in the Bottle: An Experiential Approach to Addiction
Keziah Hinchen
This is a didactic and experiential workshop that will teach the use of process-oriented psychology to help people with addiction achieve relaxation, self-confidence, creativity and spiritual connection.