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Ethics: Cultivating Compassion to Work with Addictions (Substance and Process)

Elizabeth Pace, LPCS
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Name at least 5 ethical codes that are relevant to the treatment of addictions counseling.

  • Define Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations (42 CFR).

  • Describe what additional legal protections that 42 CFR offers clinicians who work with substance dependence.

  • Review ASAM Patient Placement Criteria to determine when to treat someone AMA and when to make a referral to a higher level of care.

  • Identify when they are absorbing their clients' dissociated emotions in session.

  • Replicate a self-compassion activity for treating challenging clients with addictions.

  • Utilize the skill of immediacy with challenging clients where there is a transference/countertransference feedback loop.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is for clinicians to expand their competence and confidence in ethical practice of addictions counseling.

Description

Ethical practice in addictions counseling is protective of both the client and the clinician. Skillful referrals, knowing when to terminate the relationship, and appropriate benchmarks for meeting treatment goals are all basic requirements for clinical practice in an outpatient setting. However, aspirational ethics invites us to deepen our capacity for compassion with a challenging population to treat. The focus of this workshop will be a review of basic ethical practice for addictions counseling, including additional therapist protections under the law, and then move on to transference and countertransference in the counseling relationship and how to manage it ethically and compassionately.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Elizabeth Pace, LPCS
Elizabeth Pace is a trauma therapist and educator in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana who specializes in cultural historical and intergenerational trauma effects in the body and nervous system. In Beth's practice, substance and process addictions are treated as symptoms of trauma and limbic system injury, not as stand alone pathology. Beth approaches addictions treatment as trauma and dissociation treatment, with an emphasis on healing root traumas in order to decrease the need to self-medicate for pain. She believes that treating gestational, intergenerational, and early childhood trauma can lead to greater self-awareness, and that desensitizing the body's threat response creates the internal safety to respond to situations in a healthier way. Beth is an adjunct professor of counseling theories and counselor ethics at Loyola University of New Orleans, where she incorporates the cultural historical model of trauma into both classes. She is currently conducting a pilot study on a novel cognitive and somatic therapy: Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), which is her primary modality in her clinical practice. Her passion is to help healthcare professionals increase their confidence in treating addictions, complex trauma, and the auto-immune effects of toxic stress in the body.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Valley Hope