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 diagnoses for grief in the DSM-5.
18.  Articulate what Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder is and how it differentiates from grief and loss.
19.  Identify how dysfunctional relational patterns can manifest as love addiction and love avoidance.
20.  Name the etiology for these dysfunctional relational patterns.
21.  Conceptualize how love addiction and love avoidance shows up on a spectrum and its cyclical nature.
22.  Identify the attachment styles that typically show up with love addiction and love avoidance.
23.  Define what trauma bonding is and how it differs from love addiction.
24.  Review the research that identifies the brain areas that show up in the experience of love and in addiction.
25. Describe conceptualizations of love and relationship addiction and how those are different and can be more common in female sex and love addicts.
26. Name four examples of how treatment of female addicts is different from male addicts and identify potential pitfalls in treatment.
27.  Evaluate for domestic violence/intimate partner violence in clients struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors and/or betrayal trauma clients.
28.  Name assessments to assist clinicians in assessing for domestic violence/intimate partner violence.
29.  Understand the difficulties and barriers in client’s reporting or disclosing domestic violence/intimate partner violence.
30.  Learn interventions, techniques, and tools to support clients who are experiencing or engaging in domestic violence/intimate partner violence.

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. Female Sex and Love Addicts
   1. Theories and etiology include interpersonal neurobiology, intimacy disorder, compulsive sexual behavior disorder, relationship addiction, traumatic bonding, and complex/developmental trauma
   2. Affect regulation is critical for addressing underlying trauma and shame
   3. Interpersonal connections are key to recovery and may include therapist, 12-step group, partner/family, and higher power
   4. Cycle work: acting out and acting in cycle, addictive cycle, love addiction/love avoidance cycle
   5. Cultural considerations when working with female clients
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. Comprehensive Sex & Love Addiction Assessment:
      1. SLAA 40 Questions for Self-Diagnosis (also in 25-item option)
      2. Love Addiction / Love Avoidance Memory Jogger (Pia Mellody)
      3. PTSI-R SDI 4.0 Other assessments Cultural factors and history Sexual and relational development history
   5. Other assessments

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

The Zoom link will be sent the week of the scheduled event to the email address provided on your registration form.

If you do not receive the link within 24 hours of the event please contact support@iitap.com.

30 Total IITAP CE Hours Including | 2 Ethics CEs | 2 Domestic Violence CEs

• 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.
  
  

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 diagnoses for grief in the DSM-5.
18.  Articulate what Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder is and how it differentiates from grief and loss.
19.  Identify how dysfunctional relational patterns can manifest as love addiction and love avoidance.
20.  Name the etiology for these dysfunctional relational patterns.
21.  Conceptualize how love addiction and love avoidance shows up on a spectrum and its cyclical nature.
22.  Identify the attachment styles that typically show up with love addiction and love avoidance.
23.  Define what trauma bonding is and how it differs from love addiction.
24.  Review the research that identifies the brain areas that show up in the experience of love and in addiction.
25. Describe conceptualizations of love and relationship addiction and how those are different and can be more common in female sex and love addicts.
26. Name four examples of how treatment of female addicts is different from male addicts and identify potential pitfalls in treatment.
27.  Evaluate for domestic violence/intimate partner violence in clients struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors and/or betrayal trauma clients.
28.  Name assessments to assist clinicians in assessing for domestic violence/intimate partner violence.
29.  Understand the difficulties and barriers in client’s reporting or disclosing domestic violence/intimate partner violence.
30.  Learn interventions, techniques, and tools to support clients who are experiencing or engaging in domestic violence/intimate partner violence.

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. Female Sex and Love Addicts
   1. Theories and etiology include interpersonal neurobiology, intimacy disorder, compulsive sexual behavior disorder, relationship addiction, traumatic bonding, and complex/developmental trauma
   2. Affect regulation is critical for addressing underlying trauma and shame
   3. Interpersonal connections are key to recovery and may include therapist, 12-step group, partner/family, and higher power
   4. Cycle work: acting out and acting in cycle, addictive cycle, love addiction/love avoidance cycle
   5. Cultural considerations when working with female clients
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. Comprehensive Sex & Love Addiction Assessment:
      1. SLAA 40 Questions for Self-Diagnosis (also in 25-item option)
      2. Love Addiction / Love Avoidance Memory Jogger (Pia Mellody)
      3. PTSI-R SDI 4.0 Other assessments Cultural factors and history Sexual and relational development history
   5. Other assessments

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

The Zoom link will be sent the week of the scheduled event to the email address provided on your registration form.

If you do not receive the link within 24 hours of the event please contact support@iitap.com.

30 Total IITAP CE Hours Including | 2 Ethics CEs | 2 Domestic Violence CEs

• 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.