Addiction: Understanding & Stopping
Addictive Behaviour
with Joe Griffin
SEMINAR OUTLINE:
Discover how to be more effective when working with all sorts of addictions, including alcoholism, drug abuse, easting disorders, gambling, sexual obsessions and other compulsions.
Addictions blight millions of lives and are a massive drain on health and social services. For a long time uninformed dogma has held back progress in the way addiction was understood and treated. Joe Griffin's lively seminar presents an essential overview of a wide variety of addictive behaviours, and what they have in common, and describes in detail the most successful ways of rapidly breaking addictive patterns using psychotherapy informed by the latest neuroscientific findings.
It also includes new discoveries about how to disengage the brain from addictive behaviour which are proving highly beneficial for helping addicts recover, sometimes even quite quickly, and prevent relapses.
What you gain from the day
- New research-based information on the facts about which forms of treatment
work
and which don’t
- A whole new understanding of the effective strategies you need for dealing with
the full range of addictive behaviours – and how to put them into practice
- New insights into the addictive process, the destructive dissociative elements
that fuel it, and why withdrawal symptoms are the key to understanding why
people become addicted
- Specific information about how to break addictive patterns and prevent relapses
Who should attend
All members of the caring professions including; drug workers, youth workers, doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, counsellors, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, cognitive behavioural therapists, teachers, social workers, support workers and anyone wishing to understand more about effective treatment for addictive behaviour (for professional or private reasons).
SEMINAR PROGRAMME:
The Seminar Day:
Registration: 8.30 am to 9.30 am (Tea or coffee served until 9.25 am)
9.30am Why addictive behaviour and substance abuse are on the increase
The facts about the rise in addictive behaviours including: cocaine, heroin, alcohol, cigarettes, eating disorders, shopping, gambling etc. Changes in society that feed the rate of increase in addictive behaviours. Why the human givens approach gives us a more comprehensive model for understanding various aspects of addictive behaviour. Why young people take drugs. The best predictors of drug abuse. Ten warning signs that children are abusing drugs. The disease model versus the social learning model of addictive behaviour.
11.00am — Tea/coffee
11.30am The most effective strategies
What we can learn from the biggest, most comprehensive research study ever undertaken on addictive behaviour. The good news about addictive behaviour – why many addicts can, and do, recover quickly. Typical addictive beliefs and how to change them. The importance of motivational interviewing and how to do it. The addictive trance model and how to separate a person’s core identity from the addictive state. How to combat abstinence anxiety. How to prevent relapses.
1.00pm — Lunch break
2.00pm How change happens: practical demonstration
How to use our natural human abilities and the power of imagination to break free from addictive states. A group demonstration, applicable to a wide range of behaviours, followed by an analysis of the skills used. Dealing with withdrawal symptoms.
3.00pm — Tea/coffee
3.30pm Making a difference straight away
Specific focus on the addictive elements within eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating) and how to effectively combat them. The five most effective techniques for changing all types of addictive behaviours. Pulling the day together.
4.30pm — Day ends |
