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First Friday Speaker Series | August 7th

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

 Presented by Deborah Schiller, LPC, CSAT-S, CMAT

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 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.   

Target Audience:

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

Learning Objectives: 

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

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

3. Participants will discuss the therapeutic  usage of polygraphs in the context of formal disclosure.

4. Participants will identify ethical and legal considerations in the disclosure process.

Event Details:

Pine Grove’s First Friday Lecture Series
August 7, 2015
9:30am till 12:30pm (registration begins at 9:00am)
Light breakfast included
1721 Oxmoor Road, Birmingham, AL

CE’s available for professionals

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Deborah Schiller, LPC, CSAT-S, CMAT
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.

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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 & Addiction Services has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6392. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ) Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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 ___ Ethics Hours /General _3__ General Hours )

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

NAADAC:  3 contact hours: (Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, approval #650)

Refund/Cancellation Policy:  There is no charge for this event.

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

FGH complies with ADA. If any conference participant is in need of reasonable accommodation, please contact physician relations at 601-288-4915 prior to the event.