At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Apply strategies and interventions that are geared towards sustaining long term sobriety and recovery in our clients.
2. Integrate the exercises found in the Recovery Zone workbook, such as the decision table, into clinical group work with clients.
3. Name five psychological concepts of the Recovery Zone and Recovery System in contrast with the Addictive System.
4. Identify and utilize clinical interventions aimed at identifying Addiction Interaction or multiple addictions in recovering addicts with established sobriety.
5. Name the four categories of the Black Hole - Addiction Interaction Graphic and identify the various manifestations of addiction interaction disorder.
6. Integrate research findings and clinical observations related to the neurobiology of attachment failure, trauma and toxic stress.
7. Evaluate cases and identify interpretations of the client’s specific sexual arousal template in terms of attachment insecurity.
8. Define ethical scope of practice for CSATs addressing traumatic memories and symptoms of trauma, differentiating CSAT training and scope from that of therapists trained in specific trauma treatment modalities such as EMDR.
9. Integrate the Experiences in Close Relationships - Revised (ECR-R) assessment into clinical work with clients and evaluate and explain results.
10. Identify six key components of the Trauma Egg exercise and distinguish supportive and limiting factors in clinical implementation of this exercise.
11. Assess the role of shame and in-authenticity in addiction and identify the utility of the Shame Core exercise in client treatment.
12. Apply case example practice interpreting participants' results from their Post-Traumatic Stress Index – Revised (PTSI-R) to clinical implementation and evaluation with clients.
13. Interpret and integrate results from the participants’ Money and Work Adaptive Styles Index (MAWASI) assessment and apply to client treatment.
14. Identify the importance of assessing money and work issues with clients and integrate the Financial Disorder exercises to addiction interaction assessment and case conceptualization.
15. Name the three parts of the Grievance Story exercises and integrate into clinical plan as an intervention for assisting recovery clients in letting go of resentments that fuel their compulsive and addictive behaviors.
16. Identify ten concepts of Best Practices and congruence as they apply to both the therapist and the client.
17. Identify and apply the Recovery Zone formula and metaphorical interpretations of client behavior patterns.
18. State four reasons a client may benefit from the Soul Window sexuality exercise and integrate into clinical work.
19. Identify the components of the Recovery Zone in the context of the Recovery System to teach strategies for long term recovery and success for clients.
20. Apply the skill of positive reframing to the components of the Addictive and Recovery Systems to harness client strengths in therapy. Identify how the concept of visioning as it applies to the Internal and External tasks.
21. Determine and explain the components of Surrender and other forms of spiritual paradox frequently referenced or experienced by individuals as they navigate early addiction recovery using tools like the Inner Observer Spiritual life exercise.
22. Identify three examples of tools and interventions that can be utilized to recognize and address client grief.
23. Evaluate the World Health Organization’s definition of healthy sexuality and name seven examples of contextual variables relevant to the treatment process.
24. Identify paraphilias and fetishes and utilize appropriate interventions for treatment.
25. Integrate methods for working with the LGBTQ population in light of orientation and gender fluidity.
26. Build a treatment plan which emphasizes the essential nature of promoting client exploration of their individual, values congruent, healthy & positive sexuality and sexual expression.
27. Distinguish definitions of healthy sexuality or sexual wellness with that of compulsive, maladaptive or problematic sexual expression.
28. Cite a minimum of five examples of forms of sexual expression and identification that clients and/or community members may mistakenly label as compulsive sexual behavior disorder.
29. Classify appropriately various forms of kink, non-normative sexual expression and erotic minority identities as healthy sexuality.
30. Define the ethical scope of practice for therapists seeking CSAT certification and differentiate CSAT training and scope from that of clinicians trained in sex therapy and treatment of sexual offenders.
31. Integrate the 12 Principles of Recovery into a plan for ongoing personal professional development.

1. Provide mental health professionals with an opportunity for professional growth and to expand their scope of practice.
2. Promote professional knowledge and training regarding multiple addictions, addiction interaction, and the neurobiology of the reward circuit system.
3. Expand participants’ understanding of sexual health and positive sexual reintegration.
4. Educate participants on current research related to how trauma impacts the brain, its correlation with shame, and the function of shame in the cycle of compulsivity and addiction.
5. Encourage communication and collaboration among treatment models and available resources.
6. Expand participants’ ability to provide accurate treatment diagnosis and care plan for clients.
7. Promote insight around self-as-therapist and comprehensive understanding of clinical intervention exercises through participant’s own completion of workbook exercises and processing in groups.
8. Further the development of clinical skills through an interactive training approach, which participants can put directly into practice following the training.

1. Addiction Interaction
   1. Research detailing money and work disorders and their connection to problematic sexual behaviors
   2. Clinical studies identifying the prevalence of co-occurring addictions
   3. Neurobiology of reward circuit system and functions of neurotransmitters and relation to compulsive and addictive behaviors
   4. Addiction Interaction addresses four categories, including substances, process/appetites, relationship patterns, and core affect states along with corresponding neuropathways.
   5. Food and relationship addicts also experience some of the same withdrawal symptoms commonly affiliated with drug addiction
   6. Forms of addiction interaction and ways addictions function with one another include cross tolerance, withdrawal mediation, replacement, disinhibiting, alternating addiction cycles, masking, ritualizing, numbing, inclusive, and fusion.
2. Assessments and Tools
   1. Recovery Zone, Vol. 1 provides clinical exercises for intervening on compulsive and addictive behaviors and core contributing factors such as trauma, shame, and multiple addictions
   2. Understanding the recovery zone and differentiating from addictive zone and operating outside of window of tolerance
   3. Therapist burnout and addressing countertransference, pathological caretaking, and self-care
   4. External recovery tasks include addressing finances, work, lifestyle balance, health, relationships and sexuality
   5. Internal recovery tasks include addressing addiction interaction, abuse and trauma, grief, shame, relationship with self and the resolution process
3. Healthy Sexuality
   1. Understanding the dimensions of sexuality and influencing factors
   2. Distinguishing healthy sexuality from addictive and compulsive sexuality
   3. Sex-positive or sex-affirming therapeutic approach versus sex-negative
   4. Differentiating problematic sexual behavior, sexual offending behavior, and non-pathological fetishes or paraphilia
   5. Differentiating integrating healthy sexuality into clinical work from limits to scope of practice and knowing when to refer clients to a sex therapist
   6. Harms of reparative therapy
   7. Deconstructing messages around sexuality and influence of family of origin, culture, and primary social communities.
4. Assessments
   1. Money and Work Adaptive Styles Index (MAWASI)
   2. Post-Traumatic Stress Index – Revised (PTSI-R)
   3. Experiences in Close Relationships - Revised (ECR-R)
   4. Other assessments
   5. Healthy sexuality

Mental Health Practitioners, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Counselors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Certified Addiction Counselors

Breaks and lunch period do not count for Continuing Education (CE) Credit.
*Breaks are approximate times

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30 Total IITAP CE Hours Including | 2 Ethics CEs

• The International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IITAP maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 Credit Hours.
  
  
• This course has been approved by the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #92253. IITAP is responsible for all aspects of the program. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 contact hours. Online Interactive for 30 Credit Hours.
  
  
• The International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC) and/or Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC). IITAP maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 30 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
  
  
• International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0224. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 contact hours.
  
  
• International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0031.Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 contact hours.
  
  
• International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0060. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 contact hours.
  
  
• International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. IITAP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This program qualifies for 30 Live-Online Interactive Clock Hours as approved by NBCC Provider #6251.