School of Addiction
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The 2011 School of Addiction is to be held in the Jubilee Building, Parnell, Auckland, for two and a half days from 3rd March until noon on 5th March. Hosted by dapaanz, it is designed for the experienced practitioner. Tutors are: Dr Steve Martino (clinical supervision), Dr Sean Sullivan (gambling), Dr Hayden McRobbie (smoking cessation). Practitioners can choose two of the three for skill-based workshops. All three will provide plenary presentations. Fees are being held to 2009 levels.
Dapaanz members: $330.00 (plus $49.50 gst): $379.50
Non-Dapaanz members: $380.00 (+ $57.00 gst): $437.00
Late fee for both (from 1 February, 2011): $400.00 (+ $60.00gst): $460.00
Dr. Martino is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He conducts clinical research, teaches, supervises and consults to psychiatric and addiction treatment facilities. Dr. Martino specializes in the treatment of addictive disorders and of patients dually diagnosed with co-occurring psychiatric problems, with specific interests in Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He also develops and investigates different strategies for training community program clinicians in empirically supported treatments. Dr. Martino is the Training Director of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN) New England Consortium, the chairperson of the CTN Research Utilization Committee in which he is actively involved in the dissemination of the Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency (MIA: STEP) NIDA/SAMHSA Blending Team product. In addition, Dr. Martino is the Education Director for the Yale Substance Abuse Treatment Psychotherapy Development Center and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.
His course will describe broad principles of clinical supervision and focus squarely on a competency-based approach. Core components of this supervision approach include direct observation of counselor practice, performance feedback, and individualized coaching. Research underscoring the importance of each of these areas and the effectiveness of competency-based supervision will be reviewed. In addition, exercises will be used to expose participants to performance evaluation using an adherence and competence treatment rating system. Participants also will learn how to convert this information into strategies for helping supervisees improve their practice.
Dr Sean Sullivan is a registered psychologist working in the field of addictions, with particular interest in behavioural addictions. He was a founding member of the Compulsive Gambling Society which established the first NZ counselling and helpline service for problem gambling from 1992. He completed his PhD at the Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, Auckland University, in 1999 developing resources for GPs and the EIGHT gambling screen. He teaches two papers in problem gambling at AUT University, has a varied addiction caseload, and is a principal of Abacus Counselling Training & Supervision Ltd, an NZQA registered organisation.
His course will cover the phenomenology of gambling and development of problem gambling, similarities and idiosyncrasies of problem gambling when compared with alcohol and other drug addictions. The high levels of co-existing problems will be described and possible causes discussed. It will also address the particular challenges of treatment of problem gambling in a world of growing technical innovation, and necessary treatment competencies to minimise gambling harm. Trainees will participate through exercises demonstrating skewed gambling thinking, groups addressing scenarios involving screening, assessment, and treatment planning, and Socratic questioning.
Dr Hayden McRobbie is based both in London, where he is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow post within the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies Queen Mary University of London, and in New Zealand, where he is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland.
Dr McRobbie has international experience in smoking cessation research, teaching and training, planning, policy and implementation and treatment. Hayden’s research interests are in the treatment of tobacco dependence and he is developing a focus on the “hard to treat” smoker. He is Assistant Editor of Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Deputy Editor of the Journal of Smoking Cessation, a member of the Society for Research of Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) and Vice President of the Association for the Treatmemnt of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD).
His course will review tobacco dependence and withdrawal, discuss the components and delivery of behavioural support and summarise current knowledge of effective pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation. Training will be interactive and trainees are encouraged to bring along examples, from their own practice, of interesting or challenging cases related to the treatment of tobacco use and dependence.
