HALF-DAY INTENSIVE
A Relational Approach to Chemical Dependency Treatment:
Working with the Couple System in Early & Ongoing Recovery
Friday, April 20th, 2012
3 Hours:
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
About the presenter:
Bob Navarra, Psy.D., M.F.T
Bob Navarra, Psy.D., M.F.T., is in private practice in San Carlos, California, specializing in addiction treatment with individuals, couples and families for over twenty five years. He is former Clinical Director of Sequoia Center (formally Sequoia Alcohol and Drug Recovery Center), has taught addiction classes at Santa Clara University, JFK University, and has offered numerous workshops and presentations on addiction treatment and couples therapy. Bob has presented his research at AAMFT and CAMFT conferences, publications include “Family “Response to Adults and Alcohol”, (in Familial Responses to Alcohol Problems, Haworth Press, 2007), and “Gottman Method Couples Therapy: From Theory to Practice”, co-authored with John Gottman (in Case Studies in Couple Therapy, Routledge Press, in press). Bob is a Research Scientist with Relationship Research Institute, and a Research Associate at MRI, where he is Director of Center for Couples in Recovery. Bob is a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist, Consultant and Trainer.
Description of the Course:
A relational approach to chemical dependency treatment takes into account the significance of relationship wellness in the overall approach to recovery. Couples - in all phases of recovery - usually struggle with how to manage their individual recoveries in the context of their relationship with a significant other, yet, research tells us that the couple relationship plays a significant role in influencing recovery outcomes.
The relationship doesn’t improve just because one or both partners get into recovery, in fact, it is normal for relationships to experience continued difficulties and face new challenges. Rather than replacing or substituting individual recovery, this workshop addresses the missing part of recovery for so many people – managing the relationship while managing one’s own recovery.
Part 1 of this this workshop focuses on techniques to help couples in early recovery focusing on developing skills for managing emotions, conflict, problem solving and ways to strengthen “couple recovery”.
Part 2 of this workshop provides interventions to help couples in ongoing recovery deepen relationship skills to increase intimacy and address relationship issues that may have taken a back seat to partners emphasizing and working on their individual recovery.
Using brief presentations, demonstrations and experiential exercises, participants will have the opportunity to learn to use tools and techniques designed to develop and strengthen “couple recovery” and a relational approach to managing recovery in both early and ongoing recovery. This research-based model of couple recovery, called the “Couple Recovery Development Approach,” (CRDA) integrates and blends techniques and recovery concepts based on Dr. Bob Navarra’s ongoing research on couples and recovery through the Mental Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA) with the “Sound Relationship House” model developed by Drs. John & Julie Gottman through the Relationship Research Institute (Seattle, WA).
Schedule:
• 9:00 - 9:10 Workshop Overview and objectives
• 9:10 - 9:30 The Couple Recovery Development Approach (CRDA) Overview
•
9:30 - 10:45 Early Recovery: Differentiating control, concern, support;
managing “codependency”; helping support individual recoveries and
developing a Couple Recovery; Gottman/Rapport Intervention; Developing
New Routines Intervention; Recovery Maps Interventions
• 10:45 – 12:00 Ongoing Recovery Interventions: Repair and Revision Exercises
Goals and objectives of the course:
Participants will be able to:
1. Name and describe the three levels of relationship development in couples recovering from chemical dependency
2. Assess for appropriate interventions to assist couples in early recovery and ongoing recovery from chemical dependency
3. Apply and develop interventions that couples can use to: effectively manage conflict, problem solving, regulating emotions, and being able to talk about the impact of addiction and of recovery on the relationship
3 Hours:
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
LOCATION:
In the MRI Conference Room at 555 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94301
3 Continuing Education Credits
MRI is approved to provide continuing education for MFT's and/or LCSW's as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE 14. MRI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MRI maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
COST: $100
*Call for student & group rates
For
more information, please contact mariapiaallende@mri.org
or (650) 321-3055.
