Addiction and Recovery Update – KEVIN MCCAULEY (Digital Seminar)

Addiction and Recovery Update – KEVIN MCCAULEY (Digital Seminar)

Sale Page
Get Addiction and Recovery Update – KEVIN MCCAULEY (Digital Seminar) on Salaedu.com

Description:

Research in neuroscience provides an evidence-based and comprehensive understanding of addiction that fits well with the experiences of people needing, seeking, and in recovery.

There are several insightful and well-articulated arguments challenging the disease conceptualization of addiction, but two important areas of research – epigenetics and psychoneuroimmunology

Greatly advance awareness of how environmental stress creates vulnerability to addiction.

This lecture reviews the most up-to-date science of addiction, the current arguments for and against addiction’s conceptualization as a disease, and how the principles of recovery management counter the pathophysiology of addiction and improve a recovering person’s chances of achieving long-term recovery.

Outline:

I. Addiction: a disorder of reward learning, decision-making and self-awareness

• Definitions of Addiction
  • The American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Definition of Addiction
  • The DSM-5 Symptomology of Addiction (Substance Use Disorder)
• The Five Current, Leading Neuroscientific Explanations of Addiction
  • Genetic Vulnerability (Blum)
  • Incentive-Sensitization (Robinson and Berridge)
  • Pathology of Memory and Learning (Kalivas)
  • Stress-induced Allostasis (Koob and LeMoal)
  • Pathology of Motivation and Choice (Volkow, Goldstein)
• The Debate about Addiction’s Definition as a Disease

II. Recent Advances in the Pathophysiology of Addiction

• Epigenetics: a new understanding of heritability of addiction & recovery
  • The Overkalix Study and transgenerational trauma transmission
  • Nicotine primes cocaine use (Kandel and Kandel)
• Psychoneuroimmunology: the Gut-Brain-Immune Loop
  • Inflammation and Psychiatric Disorders
  • The Role of Microglia in brain disease and repair
• Implications for the Disease Argument

III. Recovery Management: a Safety-based approach to sobriety

• Altering Health Disparities by Improving the Social Determinants of Health
• Professional Health Programs: What Makes a Good Aftercare Plan
  • Treatment and “Recovery Literacy”
  • Recovery Management Check-Ups
    • Active Linkage to Recovery-Oriented System of Care (ROSC)
  • Recovery Residences
  • Peer-based Sobriety Support (Kelly, Kaskutas)
  • Relapse Safety Planning
  • Urine Drug Testing (Monitoring)
  • Vocational Rehabilitation and The Collegiate Recovery Movement
  • Addiction Medicine Specialists
  • How Recovery Management informs Medication-Assisted Treatment
  • “Hedonic Rehabilitation”

NLP online course

So what is NLP?
Firstly, NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Secondly neuro refers to your neurology;
Thirdly linguistic refers to language however, programming refers to how that neural language functions.
As a result,In other words, learning NLP is like learning the language of your own mind!

Moreover, NLP is the study of excellent communication–both with yourself, and with others.
It was developed by modeling excellent communicators and therapists who got results with their clients.
NLP is a set of tools and techniques, but it is so much more than that.
In conclusion, It is an attitude and a methodology of knowing how to achieve your goals and get results.

More Course: NLP – HYPNOSIS – PHILOSOPHY

Outstanding Course:Conversational Intelligence for Coaches – 2017 Core Program