Psychodrama in Addiction Treatment: Action Methods in Early Recovery

May 10-12, 2012

Location: Ulster County, NY
(overnight accommodations are available)
~Space is limited...register early to avoid being closed out~

Trainer: Bill Coleman, LMSW, TEP

Addicts/alcoholics in early recovery are known for their cognitive deficits and often experience learning difficulties. Psychodrama works around those difficulties with experiential group activities and role plays. This training for addiction counselors goes to the heart of early recovery by exploring the client’s willingness to engage in recovery and the complex relationship the client has with her/his addictive behavior. Willingness is the one absolute essential requirement for addiction treatment to actually work. We will also explore the inevitable occurrence of relapse; or at a minimum the temptation for relapse. Participants will learn psychodramatic structures that enact the stages of relapse and the recovery actions every addict must use to stay sober.

In this training addiction counselors will experience and learn how to use action methods of psychodrama and sociodrama to help the addict/alcoholic:
Work around cognitive deficits
Activate their willingness to engage in recovery
Enact the stages of relapse as a psychoeducational tool
Identify and practice recovery actions
Action techniques for group building and increasing trust

Students at all levels of experience are welcomed. Overnight accommodations are available.

This workshop/training offers 16 CEUs toward national credentialing by National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) which are accepted by NYS OASAS, National Board of Certified Counselors and towards recertification requirements for the National Registry of Group Psychotherapists.

This workshop/training offer 16 hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy

$340 if registration is postmarked by April 10, $385 after.

To Register: Please send a check made out to HVPI to:
HVPI
68 DuBois Road
New Paltz, NY 12561
.Include a piece of paper with your name, phone number, email address and regular address and the name of the workshop.

It is now possible to pay with a major credit card. Do not send credit card numbers to us.
Contact HVPI for more information.

Refund policy: 4 weeks notice: 100% refund
2 weeks notice: 50% credit towards future HVPI trainings
THERE WILL BE NO REFUNDS OR CREDIT WITH LESS THAN TWO WEEKS NOTICE

 

Trainer: Bill Coleman, LMSW, TEP, is a certified psychodrama trainer in Tucson, AZ. He is the resident Psychodramatist at Sierra Tucson where he directs psychodrama groups for the full range of psychiatric and addiction disorders. He is also now associated with the intensive Outpatient Program at Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center in Tucson where he offers individual therapy and directs psychodrama groups for substance abuse and sex addiction. Bill has been a trainer with HVPI for over 10 years and has conducted sessions specifically for Substance Abuse Counselors. He developed and ran a staff Psychodrama training program at Daytop in Duchess County.

Bill worked as a staff psychodramatist at Four Winds Hospital treating dually diagnosed adolescents. He was an adjunct professor at Russell Sage College teaching a course in Theater Therapy. Bill has conducted workshops and has lectured widely including at the Cleveland Clinic where he presented at their Psychiatry Grand Rounds. He has also written a manual for clinicians on the use of Mandalas in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.