Website/URL: http://aia.berkeley.edu/traini...-aia-webinar-series/
Organized By: National AIA Resource Center, UC Berkeley, CA
Presenter: Kathleen Sciacca
This webinar will provide an overview of challenges faced by parents with co-occurring disorders, as well as risk factors pertaining to their children. An understanding of the effects of parental symptomology is critical for clinicians to effectively engage with clients. Specific methods intended to increase clients’ sense of parental responsibility to promote child safety and well being will be offered. Approaches will include dual diagnosis treatment, client-centered communication and motivational interviewing skills and strategies. Suggestions for support, interventions and a family approach to treatment will be featured.
Presenter Bio:
Kathleen Sciacca, MA, is a forerunner in the development of treatment methods, program development and comprehensive services for Mental Illness, Drug Addiction, and Alcoholism (MIDAA)®. Her programs have been replicated across the country. Ms. Sciacca is a national consultant, lecturer, workshop leader, and a former Director of the MIDAA Training Site for Program and Staff Development, New York State Office of Mental Health. She has authored articles, book chapters and a training video, Integrated Treatment for MIDAA, included in the Library of Congress. Her work has been reviewed by TIME magazine, and she participated with a panel of experts in developing the consensus report: SAMHSA’s Best Practice Guidelines for Co-occurring Psychiatric and Substance Disorders.
Webinar registration is at capacity. Register here to be put on the wait list: https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1270451
10 am - 11:30 am Pacific time
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