In-Person

Treatment Without Walls: A Novel Approach to Family Work, Adolescent Self-Efficacy, and Collaboration: A Novel Approach to Family Work, Adolescent Self-Efficacy, and Collaboration

1.0 CE Hours
Clinical
Treatment Without Walls: A Novel Approach to Family Work, Adolescent Self-Efficacy, and Collaboration: A Novel Approach to Family Work, Adolescent Self-Efficacy, and Collaboration

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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe 3 evidence-based strategies to engage families in improving communication.

  • Identify at least 2 strategies used to increase the self-efficacy of young adults and describe how it can add to an individual's sense of autonomy and act as a protective factor for substance use and mental health.

  • Identify at least 2 important components of treatment without walls that allows clinicians and auxiliary resources to work collaboratively. Describe at least 2 warning signs of sabotage, triangulation and how to identify when there is a need for a higher level of care.

Description

Treatment Without Walls – helping young adults AND families navigate life’s challenges by working in-home to create healthy long-term dynamics. Cultivating a curated service, based on the principles of positive psychology. Meaning that everyone’s program is tailored to work toward results-oriented living. Looking at an individual’s current circumstances and working together as a team with the family to ask what can be switched to facilitate growth, and what can be learned.
This is done through the following approach:
1. Innovative and integrative family work and positive interventions. Attendees will learn strategic evidence ways to engage with families, hold space, and create clear lines of communication.
2. Creating self-efficacy in young adults. Attendees will learn about robust strategies used for increasing the self-efficacy of young adults, and how it can add to an individual’s sense of autonomy, steering them away from a substance or mental health crisis. We will explore the impact of mentorship, performative, and vicarious experience. At the same time we work to create self-efficacy amongst primary caregivers, parents etc.
3. Working in a collaborative fashion with clinicians and auxiliary resources. Attendees will learn the importance of unity within treatment without walls. The significance of communication, and warning signs of sabotage, triangulation, and when there is a need for a higher level of care.

Target Audience

  • Counselor
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals

Presenters

Louise Stanger, ED.D, LCSW, CDWF CIP, CSAT-1

Dr. Louise is a preeminent family systems coach, interventionist, and thought leader in the behavioral health and addiction treatments industry. She has received many distinguished awards and performed thousands of family interventions in the US and abroad, gives presentations around the country on various topics related to mental health , trauma and addiction, process disorders and chronic pain, and has received prestigious awards from her fellow industry colleagues for her dedication to intervention and recovery Harvard McLean Hospital an affiliate of Harvard University and DB Resources honored her as Interventionists of the year In addition to her work with clients and families, she is former University faculty at San Diego State University and University of San Diego, where she brought in over 5 million in grants for substance abuse and alcohol training and education.

Maks Ezrin, CARC, MAPP

Born and raised in New York, Maks Ezrin had his own experience with early addiction. As a child, Maks enjoyed everything the city had to offer. He attended the best schools, maintained a rigorous course load, enjoyed a wide and varied social circle, and had the support of a loving family. Despite these advantages, by age 14, Maks began experimenting with drugs and alcohol. His substance dependence worsened during college, eventually leading to a near-fatal overdose in his mid-20s. Through the help of friends and family, Maks has been sober since 2016. Recognizing the importance of early detection and support of sober mentors, Maks has dedicated himself to giving back by helping other young pre-addicts. His experience propelled him to connect with leaders in the addiction and recovery field to raise awareness and help mitigate the effects of addiction- the ‘silent problem’ most families don’t notice until it is too late. Together with Natasha Silver Bell, an internationally recognized figure in the recovery field, and Dr. Rami Kaminski, a renowned pioneer in the psychiatric field, Maks founded Youth Prevention Mentors. In addition to his Addiction Recovery Coaching certifications, Maks has a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.