Intervention 101 – Secondary and Systemic Trauma: Understanding Why Families Struggle to Follow Recommendations
Information
Date & Time
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Compare and contrast the parallel healing processes that individuals in addiction treatment and their family members must undertake to maximize recovery and family healing.
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Identify 3 symptoms of secondary trauma and describe how they can prevent family members from following through with treatment/intervention recommendations.
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Describe 2 methods for engaging families in family education and intervention training
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List 2 factors that contribute to how family systems respond to chronic diseases such as addiction
Educational Goal
The educational goal of this session is for participants to increase understanding of working with traumatized families, secondary trauma and how to best engage families in education and intervention.
Description
This session will focus on family adjustment and how families cope with a loved one’s chronic and progressive illness. It will include information on working with traumatized families, describe transgenerational, Secondary, and Systemic Trauma and help participants to understand the family healing process.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Dr. Michael Barnes is a Licensed Addiction Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Diplomate in the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. For the past four years, he has served as the Chief Clinical Officer at the Foundry Treatment Center in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He provides administrative and clinical oversight for all clinical programs. Dr. Barnes comes to the Foundry after serving for five years as the Clinical Manager of Residential Services at CeDAR (Center for Dependency, Addiction, and Rehabilitation) at the University of Colorado Hospital and 10 years as a full time clinical professor in Counseling. Most recently he served as the Clinical Coordinator and Clinical Associate Professor in the MA Program in Counseling at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Barnes has developed trauma integrated clinical models for the treatment of individuals with co-occurring addiction and trauma and trauma integrated family programs. He speaks nationally on Families, Trauma, and
Addiction, Families Trauma and Addiction, and Compassion Fatigue. Dr. Barnes received his BA in Psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, his M.Ed. in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh, and his Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Florida State University. Dr. Barnes is an avid road cyclist and a beginning mountain biker. He also enjoys skiing, hiking/camping, fishing, Colorado Rockies Baseball, and Florida State Football. As a native of Hollidaysburg, PA (about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh) he also enjoys following Pitt Football and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pirates, and Penguins.
Financially Sponsored By
- CanAm Interventions