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Educational Goal
Participants will learn about the role of spirituality in substance abuse and mental health treatment.
Description
In treating substance use and mental disorders, spirituality is an important aspect to be addressed as an essential part of recovery. First, coming out of the Twelve Step community and then finding its way into more clinically grounded treatment interventions, spirituality, and its importance has been recognized, but its definition has been unclear. This workshop will give a clinical definition of spirituality and its clinical presentation.
Utilizing the Spiritual Platform™ as a foundation and the four pillars that support it (choice, risk, relationship, and participation in wonder), participants will learn how substance use and mental disorders erode these structures and how recovery rebuilds them. Recognizing that spirituality is but one dimension within the bio-psycho-social-spiritual experiential model of addictive disease and mental disorders, there will be a brief discussion on spirituality’s healing role in all aspects of the illnesses.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Jeff has worked in the addiction field and practiced psychotherapy with a focus on families and group counseling for more than 40 years. He holds credentials as a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist, a Certified Clinical Supervisor, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and a Certified Group Psychotherapist by the American Association of Group Psychotherapy. He remains a consulting faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a faculty member of the Duke University School of Nursing. He earned his BA from Duke University and his M.Div. in Pastoral Psychology from the Duke Divinity School and The Philadelphia Divinity School. Jeff completed an Internship and Residency program in Pastoral Counseling at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical Center. He earned a Master’s in Allied Health at Duke University.
Jeff has been affiliated with Duke University Medical Center for over three decades. During these years, he served as the clinical director of the Duke Addictions Program and held clinical appointments in the Departments of Surgery, Obstetrics, and Psychiatry.
Jeff has served as the Consensus Panel Co-chair for the Treatment Improvement Protocol, Substance Abuse Treatment: Group Psychotherapy, published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 2005. He was also a panel member for the Treatment Improvement Protocol, Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment, 2001, and a contributing author for the Treatment Improvement Protocol, Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies for Substance Abuse 2001, published by SAMHSA. He is also a national trainer and respected author in clinical spirituality, group psychotherapy, craving management, adolescent development, shame, grief, and loss, as well as several other topics. Jeff developed The Spiritual Platform™, which provides a clinical response to what can be a challenging concept for patients and clinicians to put into practice. Currently, Jeff works with his wife, Becky Georgi, to provide staff development opportunities for organizations to meet the growing clinical challenges in the field.
Financially Sponsored By
- Sabino Recovery