Participants will be able to: 1. Explain how different cultures view substance abuse and abused substances. 2. Explore cultural issues with people. 3. Examine their own beliefs and how they shape the way they provide services.

Participants will be able to: 1. List why agnostic/atheist clients should not let their beliefs keep them from benefitting from 12 Step fellowships. 2. Steer people toward an understanding of why they believe or don’t believe in a Higher Power. 3. Help people choose an appropriate higher purpose. 4. Support someone's sobriety, no matter what their beliefs about God.

Participants will be able to: 1. Respond to criticisms of the slogans. 2. Explain how cognitive distortions sabotage happiness, sobriety, and peace of mind. 3. Help people recognize and counteract errors of generalization. 4. Help people recognize and counteract errors of prediction. 5. Help people recognize and counteract errors of importance. 6. Help people recognize and counteract unrealistic demands of self. 7. Help people recognize and counteract distortions closely associated with substance use.

1. Help people overcome denial and accept that they have a problem. 2. Help people get more from recovery programs. 3. Help people use the Twelve Step slogans in everyday life. 4. Teach ways to enhance and buttress recovery. 5. Deal appropriately with someone's relapse.

Participants will be able to: 1. List at least two reasons recovering from co-occurring disorders is more difficult than recovering from either substance use disorders or mental illnesses. 2. Describe the myth of primary diagnosis. 3. Help people apply Twelve Step slogans to problems faced in everyday life. 4. List guidelines for taking medications while recovering from a substance use disorder. 5. List at least five ways properly prescribing medications differ from street drugs and alcohol. 6. List three guidelines for encouraging or not encouraging someone to a Twelve Step meeting. 7. List alternatives to Twelve Step fellowships such as SMART Recovery.

Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the recovery program, as it was outlined in Narcotics Anonymous. 2. Describe NA’s official stance on several key issues. 3. Differentiate between what the Basic Text says, and many commonly held mistaken beliefs about NA. 3. Help people apply lessons from the Basic Text can be applied to their daily lives at home and at work.

Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the recovery program, as it was outlined in Alcoholics Anonymous. 2. Describe AA’s official stance on several key issues. 3. Differentiate between what the Big Book says, and many commonly held mistaken beliefs about AA. (For example, many people believe that AA is anti-psychiatry, despite numerous references in Alcoholics Anonymous to seeking help from other quarters and not having a monopoly on helping alcoholics.) 3. Help people apply recovery principles found in the Big Book to their work and home lives.

Participants will be able to: 1. Explore mindfulness practices with someone. 2. Adapt mindfulness practices to someone's issues and goals. 3. Incorporate mindfulness into their own self-care. 4. Use concentration practices in daily life. 5. Use open monitoring practices. 6. Use equanimity practices. 7. Explain the commonalities and differences between mindfulness practice and psychotherapy. 8. Choose interventions based on diagnosis and population.

As evidenced by passing the post-test, participants will be able to: a) Describe the faulty core beliefs shared by many people who struggle with sexual addiction. Help people see how these beliefs skew the way they see other people and misinterpret their own behavior. b) Explain the four stages of the sexual addiction cycle. Explain how one gets caught up this cycle. c) Describe the levels of addiction. Help people see that even Level I behaviors have serious social and psychological ramifications – even hidden behaviors have hidden costs. d) Understand the role of childhood physical, psychological, and sexual abuse on adult sexual behavior. Help people see the negative impact of abandonment, be it real, symbolical, or threatened. e) Help people see the multi-generational impact and genesis of incest, abuse, and sexual acting out. f) Explain the role co-addicts play in keeping the addictive system functioning. g) Help someone see the cultural messages that support faulty core beliefs.

Participants will be able to: 1. Describe sexual addiction, including its characteristics, levels, etiology, and prevalence. 2. Explain how culture affects our views of sexuality. 3. Describe the obstacles to treating sexual addiction, especially sources of professional bias. 4. List the phases of sexual addiction, and how the disease can be “contingent rather than progressive.” 5. Explain the circumplex model and how it incorporates cohesion and adaptability when examining the addictive family. 6. Apply Twelve Step concepts to both chemical and non-chemical addictions. 7. Help co-addicts understand their role in the addictive system. 8. Explain the basic recovery processes and how they are applied from assessment through to recovery.