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The Journey to Addiction: How It Starts, Why It Sticks, & The Power of Prevention

Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D. ABPP
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Addiction does not happen overnight; rather, it is a process that unfolds over time and is shaped by a complex interaction of risk and protective factors. This workshop will help participants understand how addiction and substance use disorders begin, using the Stages of Change model to explore the initiation of problematic behaviors. This presentation will highlight how risk and protective factors influence the initiation of use disorders as well as how they develop into well-maintained patterns that are resistant to change. Additionally, the differences between prevention and treatment will be explored, and strategies for prevention will be identified.

Educational Goal

To enhance participants’ understanding of the initiation of addictions as well as opportunities for prevention through the Stages of Change model.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe how individuals move through the tasks of the stages of change during the initiation of a use disorder

  • Differentiate between prevention and treatment strategies and identify when each is most appropriate.

  • Name one or more risk and protective factors that influences the initiation of addiction

  • Identify one or more stage-based prevention strategies that can interrupt the progression toward addiction

Target Audience

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

Presenters

Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D. ABPP
Dr. DiClemente is co-developer of the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change and author of numerous scientific publications on motivation and behavior change with a variety of health and addictive behaviors. He has conducted funded research for the past 40 years with funding from NIH Institutes, SAMSHA, and Foundations. He published the second edition of his book Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover in 2018. He has co-authored several professional books, The Transtheoretical Model, Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change (second edition), and Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages of Change Therapy Manual (Second Edition) and a self-help book, Changing for Good. For his work, he has received awards from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, as well as a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. In 2019, he received the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Jack Mendelson Honorary Lecture Award and the Alfred Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Register of Health Services Psychologists. In 2022, he was given the Senator Harold Hughes Memorial award for outstanding leadership in translating research into practice and helping to bridge Alcohol research, treatment, prevention, and policy making communities by NIAAA. Dr. Carlo DiClemente received his Doctorate in Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and currently is a consultant, presenter, and trainer.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Society of Addiction Psychology (APA Division 50)