First Friday Speaker Series | March 6th

Event Information

"When Too Much is Not Enough: Disclosure in Addiction Treatment"

 Presented by Deborah Schiller, LPC, CSAT-S, CMAT, NCC and Philip Hemphill, PhD, LCSW

About this Workshop: 

This workshop will focus on the current relevant literature and practice models recommended for working with couples during a disclosure process.  The exploration and inclusion of addiction, relational trauma, and attachment theories will be balanced with a ‘code of ethics.’  The ability to set clear boundaries, follow professional guidelines, and maintain self-preservation in the context of such intense therapeutic exchanges will be highlighted.  Participants will be asked to undergo an analysis of their positions on such complex ethical and legal situations.

The struggles with confidentiality and dual advocacy will be illustrated by case presentations and role plays.  The utility of self-disclosure during this process will be presented for discussion.  The professional boundaries, dual relationships, counter transference, and values required to have a successful experience will be offered as a model evolves to implement in practice.  Finally, the impact of relapse following disclosure has been researched and factors impacting termination are keys to fully understanding the requirements for this therapeutic process.  

Learning Objectives: 

1. Participants will define ethical standards and boundaries within the therapeutic relationship while having a model of decision making.

2. Participants will be able to identify guidelines to help determine the most therapeutic times for disclosure in therapy.

3. Participants will be able to describe how to increase therapeutic effectiveness through appropriate preparation of clients and their partners for disclosure.

4. Participants will discuss the therapeutic effectiveness of using polygraphs in the context of therapeutic disclosure.

Event Details:  

What:             Pine Grove’s First Friday Lecture Series

When:            March 6, 2015

Time:              9:00am till 12:30pm (breakfast included)

Where:           161 Airport Lane, Pensacola, FL 32504

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Deborah Schiller, LPC, CSAT-S, CMAT, NCC
Director of Pine Grove's Gratitude program

Deborah Schiller is the Program Director of Gratitude (formally known as "Gentle Path"), a Pine Grove Program. She is a native of Huntsville, AL, where she completed three years of study at the University of Alabama in Huntsville before finishing her degree at Montevallo University in Montevallo, AL. Ms. Schiller taught School in Selma, AL for three years before getting her Masters degree in Early Childhood Education from Stanford, University in Stanford, CA. She began her family in New York City and taught in schools in Boston, MA, Huntsville, AL, and Redlands, CA. While raising three children, she returned to school, receiving her second Masters degree from The University of South Alabama, Baldwin County, AL, this time in Counseling. Ms. Schiller completed an Internship at The Meadows Treatment Center in Wickenburg, AZ and became a Therapist there. In 2004, Ms. Schiller joined Pine Grove and the Professional Enhancement Program as a Clinical Therapist. She has since worked at Pine Grove’s Gratitude Program as Primary Therapist and Clinical Director.

Philip Hemphill, Ph.D, LCSW
Director of Pine Grove's Professional Enhancement Program

Dr. Philip Hemphill has been the Program Director of the Professional Enhancement Program at Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Mississippi since 2002. He is responsible for the management and supervision of the clinical services of the Professional Enhancement Program, an intensive outpatient/residential treatment program for professionals who are struggling with addictive and personality disorders. In addition to administrative management of the program, he assists with evaluation, treatment planning, direct clinical care, fitness for duty issues, staff training, vocational and professional reintegration, and workplace monitoring. Prior to coming to Pine Grove, Dr. Hemphill worked at the Masters and Johnson Sexual Trauma and Compulsivity programs in New Orleans, Louisiana for 14 years where he was Director of Extended Care, Director of Research, and Director of Behavioral Therapy. He has been a consultant to Missouri, Kentucky, and Louisiana social service agencies in developing treatment for juvenile offenders. Between 1993 and 2005, he developed and supervised an outpatient program for juvenile offenders and their families at New Orleans Adolescent Hospital.

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Target Audience:

Professional clinicians in the mental health and addiction field who are counselors, social workers, psychiatrist, psychologist, and therapists who work with couples.

CEU Information:

This program has been approved for the following:Psychology:  3 CE Hours (Pine Grove Services is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services maintains responsibility for this program and its content.)

NBCC:  3  CEHs (Pine Grove Behavioral Health Provider #6392)

MS Social Work:  3 CE hours; Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services (DP# SWB120013) is approved as a provider for  continuing education by the MBOE & MFT Approval Period:  08/24/14 through 08/24/16.  Social workers will receive  3 CE hours in participating in this course. (Clinical ___ /Supervision___ /Cultural Competency___/ Ethics ___ /General  X )

Social Work: 3 Contact Hours (Pine Grove Behavioral Health provider # 0336 through NASW-Alabama)

Ethical Disclosures for Speakers:

1. Deborah Schiller is an employee of Forrest General Hospital; Philip Hemphill serves as a consultant to Forrest General Hospital.

2. There is no commercial support of the speakers, the content of the talks or anything that might be a conflict of interest beyond the speakers being paid by Pine Grove.

3. The speaker is not promoting any books, medications or training that will be for sale at the talk that might constitute a conflict of interest.

4. The speaker will cover any potential limitations and risks of the treatment or topics being discussed during the talk.

5. Some of the material covered is of a sensitive nature about addictions, ethical dilemmas and/or other clinical disorders.

Grievance Procedure:

Please contact Samuel Rosa @  601-288-4915 or at Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, 2255 Broadway Drive.,  Hattiesburg MS  39401 to submit a complaint, or if you have additional questions.

Refund/Cancellation Policy:  

If an attendee has paid before the day of the talk and cannot attend, they will be refunded their money.  The day of the talk, if an attendee feels that the workshop is not what was advertised, the fee will be refunded on request. 

Those in attendance must stay for the entire duration of the workshop, partial credit for partial attendance will not be awareded.