San Jose Campus Continuing Education Courses

Addiction: Treating the Hijacked Brain

Instructor: Mary Anne Fifield DMFT, CAS, CSAT
Continuing Education Units (CEUs):12

Course Number: FIF001 (Non-credit)

 

This course will offer an overview of the core imperatives that need to be addressed by the clinician for a client’s successful recovery. These imperatives include: 1] the Brain, 2] Theology of the 12-Steps, 3] Attachment Trauma, 4] Co/Contra-dependency, 5] Addiction Interaction Disorder,
6] Sex Addiction, 7] Family (kids, couples & family recovery), and 8] Basics of Treatment.

This course will both educate and equip the participants with skills and techniques to help someone into recovery and to continue their recovery process.

This training will expand on Dr. Fifield’s perspective on addiction that was published in an article that appeared in The American Journal of Pastoral Counseling (Vol. 8, #1, 2005), Spirituality in the Therapeutic Community: A Christian Perspective. This article presents the theological framework for the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and argues that addicts must first begin with Christ’s deliverance – a surrender in powerlessness – which is a gift offered in the Atonement of Christ.

In this training you will:

• Gain an understanding of the nature of, and the damage done, by addiction
• Gain skills to help addicts find freedom from their addictions
• Learn how to help the co-addict find hope and healing
• Learn how recovery is a grace initiated & grace sustained process that is available for both addict and co-addict
• Be introduced to the current horror of porn on the Internet and what is happening in the brains of addicts
• Learn some basics on how to build an addiction treating practice
  

Fee for classes: 12 Continuing Education Units…$150

Location: Courses will be held at our San Jose Campus located in beautiful Los Gatos.

16300 Los Gatos Blvd., Suite 100
Los Gatos, CA 95032-4520

For more information call Dan Jackowitz at
408-356-6889 ext 414

Register for CEUs:  Click Here to Register On-line
(Note: This will transfer you to the secure Western Seminary Center for Lifelong Learning registration page)

  Western Seminary Northern California is a Board Registered provider.
  Provider# PCE 3044 CEU Courses registered with the State of California