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Our current services include:
Free Initial Consultation about Your Needs
Custom Designed Training
Training for Trainers
Prevention Trainings
Training for Clinical Supervisors
Assistance in Preparing Legislation for
Problem Gambling
Speakers Bureau on Problem Gambling
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IPG Workshops
Contact Chris Armentano at 860 344-2244.
Workshops: Each six-hour
workshop combines a variety if presentation methods and may include in
addition to lecture: small group-work, class discussion, and role-play,
video and personal stories (when available). Workshops are designed to meet
requirements of the National Council on Problem Gambling’s certification
board and for CEU’s from most human service disciplines. This section
should be divided up into “clinical” and “prevention” workshops.
Jim’s workshop descriptions are fine just like they are.
Workshops provided include:
Overview
of Problem Gambling
This workshop describes the world wide growth of gambling in recent
years and probable links to increased problem gambling. Participant will
learn the impact of this growth on individuals, families and society. They
will also become familiar with competing models for understanding problem
gambling behavior including the disease model. Participants will be able to
identify levels of gambling problems including the psychiatric disorder
“pathological gambling”. They will also develop an understanding of
screening and referral options, including self-help and professional
treatment.
Assessment
and Treatment Planning
Participants will learn to assess individuals and families across
multiple domains including financial, social, legal, vocational, medical
interpersonal, emotional, cognitive, behavioral ( participation in risky
behaviors) and spiritual. They will also learn to use assessment data to
develop, along with their clients, prioritize, effective, treatment plans
with measurable goals.
Treating
the Family
Participants learn to identify and address the emotional, relationship,
financial, legal and other consequences of problem gambling for the family
members and other significant individuals. They will recognize the variety
of problems faced by parents, children, spouses, adult children, elderly
parents and siblings. In addition, attendees of this workshop will gain
knowledge of the special needs of family members of multiply- diagnosed
gamblers.
Relapse
Prevention
Participants will understand the process of relapse as it pertains to
problem gamblers. They will learn to identify relapse triggers and warning
signs for single diagnosis gamblers and those with co-occurring medical,
psychological and substance use disorders. Participants will learn a step by
step process for developing individualized relapse prevention plans with
their clients. In addition they will understand the challenges of counseling
relapsed clients.
Treating Problem Gamblers: Engagement and Problems
of Early Recovery
Participants will learn to: address the challenge of hopelessness;
understand the role and function of gambling in the client’s life; develop
motivation; set goals; cope with financial, interpersonal and intra-personal
losses; build environmental supports; manage anxiety and depression; and
regain self-esteem.
Treating Problem Gamblers: Issues of Middle and
Late Recovery.
This course will assist counselors to help clients: cope with emotions;
identify and cope with problems as they emerge; build self-esteem; set
personal goals and commit to personal growth. Counselors will also help
clients develop a better understanding of themselves and begin to address
core conflicts.
Assessment and Treatment of Problem Gambling and
Co-occurring Disorders. Participants will: understand the impact of
substance abuse and mental health issues on problem gamblers, identify the
similarities and differences between treatment approaches for
multiple-diagnosed versus single diagnosed problem gamblers, and recognize
the importance of setting reasonable goals. They will also understand the
use harm reduction and abstinence models, know the benefits and challenges
of twelve step-groups and the importance of developing alternative social
supports, and recognize the role and treatment of the family.
Treating female gamblers: Participants will
understand: gender specific challenges to recovery; treatment impacting
similarities and differences between male and female gamblers; and treatment
issues for female gamblers across the life span. They will also understand:
the use of an empowerment model of recovery; harm reduction as both a goal
and a phase of treatment; and gambling’s relationship to trauma, abuse and
loss.
Treating
Problem Gamblers: Advances Case Presentations
This workshop invites participants to present complex or
“problem” cases for discussion. Participants will understand the use of
multi-modal treatment approaches, including psychiatric, family, couples,
and peer, individual and group treatment for both the gambler and family
members.
Treating Problem Gamblers: Managing Financial, Legal, and
Vocational Problems
Understanding debt and money as triggers; restitution; G.A.’s
pressure relief and budgeting; coping with creditors.
Criminal activity; arrest and threat of arrest; report writing for
legal system; client advocacy.
Vocational problems; handling money; finding a new job.
Treating
Problem Gamblers: Treating special populations
Minorities, Women,
Teens, and the Elderly
Identify and address key issues related to outreach, engagement,
evaluation, and treatment
Treating Problem Gamblers: Treatment
Planning
Class will develop treatment plans of typical problem gamblers, which
addresses dimensions: medical, social, vocational, behavioral,
familial, legal, financial, and spiritual
Comprehensive
Prevention of Problem Gambling Program Planning
Given that no progress has ever been made against any epidemic by
treating only the casualties, it is incumbant upon those of us working
in the problem gambling arena to embrace prevention programming. This
course will examine the many facets of developing a comprehensive
approach to problem gambling prevention programming.
An understanding of prevention principles will guide
participants into developing their own approaches to problem gambling
prevention. Examples
of prevention efforts from around the United States and Canada will be
given.
Discovering
the Meaning of Prevention
A Workshop for the Helping Professional
Professionals in the helping professions are often expected to know
about and speak to the full continuum of care – prevention,
intervention, treatment and aftercare.
Yet few of us have had much formal training on the discipline
and technology of prevention.
This course will give an overview of prevention including
defining terms, community development, prevention strategies,
science-based prevention and best practices in prevention.
Contact Chris Armentano at 860 344-2244 or
Contact our office by
e-mail, telephone or mail for more information or to arrange for a service to be
provided:
- Telephone:
- (860) 343-5500 ext. 2130
- Fax:
(860) 347-3813
- Postal address:
- 955 South Main Street, Middletown, Connecticut 06457
Electronic mail
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