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SUMMARY:Training for Healthcare Provider — Responsible Gaming Conference
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKERS FOR SANDIA CONFERENCE 2024\n‍\nBrain Connections: Start Talking with Clients about Gambling and the Brain‍\nIris Balodis\, PhD\, McMaster University and Deirdre Querney\, MSW\, City of Hamilton’s\nAlcohol\, Drug & Gambling Services \n“Why do I keep gambling when it’s not fun anymore?” “Why do I feel like I need to gamble?” “How do slot machine features affect my brain?” How do you answer these kinds of questions? This session describes Brain Connections (www.brainconnections.ca): free clinical handouts for healthcare professionals and educational handouts for the public about gambling addiction and the brain. Come to this session and increase your confidence and competence in talking about gambling neurobiology!\n‍ \n‍Learning Objectives: \n\n‍‍Learn about the Brain Connections tools and how these apply in your setting\nAccurately answer commonly asked questions about gambling and the brain\nIncrease your confidence and competence in talking about gambling\nneurobiology\n\n‍ \nOvercoming Barriers to Change: How Longing for the Past can be Used to Facilitate a Better Future\n‍Michael Wohl\, PhD\, Carleton University \nBehavior change is a challenging endeavor undertaken by millions annually\, with most attempts failing. Many individuals refuse to alter their unhealthy habits\, leading to self-harm and impacting others. This presentation explores leveraging nostalgia—a sentimental yearning for the past—to facilitate behavior change. It emphasizes using\nnostalgic reflections on a pre-addiction life as a powerful\, yet underexplored\, motivator. Additionally\, it delves into the potential negative aspects of nostalgia for individuals in recovery. \n‍\nLearning objectives: \n\n‍‍Describe why nostalgic reverie (i.e.\, sentimental longing) is an agent of behavior change\nIdentity the conditions under which nostalgia has behavior change utility\nUnderstand when longing for the past or desire for a better future should be used to motivate behavior change.\n\n‍ \nMotivational Interviewing for Clients with Gambling Disorder\n‍David Hodgins\, PhD University of Calgary \nThis presentation will review Motivational Interviewing (MI) principles and their use with different levels of client readiness to change. Although MI utilizes specific therapeutic strategies/tools\, it is fundamentally a style of interpersonal interaction rather than a scripted protocol. As such\, an MI-style can be used in any encounter by therapists and non-therapists alike to facilitate service engagement and behavior change. This training will provide a review and practice of MI principles and skills. \n‍\nLearning objectives \n\n‍‍Participants will review the philosophy and principles of the motivational interviewing approach\nParticipants review and learn basic motivational interviewing techniques.\nParticipants will explore how motivational techniques can be used to help clients engage in the treatment process (avoid dropout)\n\n‍ \nPANORAMIC VIEWS: Self and Gambler in Helping Relationships\n‍Cindy Anderson\, MSW\, LCSW\, ICGC-I\, Founder and Executive Director People Works-New Mexico \nThis workshop addresses a helping professional’s need for a panoramic view of the interiors and exteriors of a gambler’s life while not neglecting the impact of our own interiors/exteriors. This presentation provides an overview of issues to look for: comorbidities\, the shame and stigma associated with gambling disorder\, and need for\nassessment and intervention in multiple domains of a gambler’s life. As a helping professional\, willingness to converse about difficult subjects such as trauma\, shame\, sex\, cultural influences\, and money become critical. \n‍\nLearning objectives: \n\nIdentify 3 potential comorbidities or associated conditions found in problem gambling.\nIdentify 3 domains of a gambler’s life that you should include in your assessment and possible interventions.\nIdentify your own biases and difficulty in helping problem gamblers.\n\n‍
URL:https://www.icrg.org/event/training-for-healthcare-provider-responsible-gaming-conference/
LOCATION:Sandia Resort & Casino\, 30 Rainbow Rd\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87113\, United States
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SUMMARY:Screening for Gambling Disorder
DESCRIPTION:Approved for 1.5 CE Hours\n‍ \nInstructors:\n– Debi A. LaPlante\, PhD and Heather Gray\, PhD\nDivision on Addiction\, Cambridge Health Alliance\, a teaching hospital   of Harvard Medical School\n– Mike Sciandra\, Education and Outreach Coordinator\nChoices Treatment Center\, Lincoln\, Nebraska \nEarly detection and intervention could make a big difference in helping people with gambling disorder\, which often goes undiagnosed and untreated. However\, there is low awareness about how or why to expand screening for Gambling Disorder. One U.S. national study from Harvard Medical School reported that although none of those who were identified as meeting lifetime diagnostic criteria for Gambling Disorder reported seeking treatment for those problems\, about half were involved in behavioral treatment for other psychiatric problems. This tells us that expanding screening for Gambling Disorder could improve identification of gambling problems and increase the rate of treatment-seeking among people with this disorder. \nThat is why the Division on Addiction created Gambling Disorder Screening Day in 2013\, launching the first mass screening campaign for the disorder. In commemoration of this event\, held every March\, this webinar will feature Dr. Debi LaPlante\, Dr. Heather Gray and Mike Sciandra talking about the following:\n‍\n– The history of Gambling Disorder Screening Day and their recent   expansion activities.\n– Discussion of their recent study regarding digital Screening Day   efforts.\n‍\nThe webinar will also feature one of the Screening Day hosts who will  reflect on how this national event works at the local level. Perhaps your  organization would like to sponsor Screening Day next year!\n\nLearning objectives:\nAs a result of this webinar\, attendees will be able to: \n– Explain the importance of screening for mental health disorders and   Gambling Disorder\, in particular.\n– Develop and host a Gambling Disorder Screening Day event\, in person   or online.\n– Apply the lessons learned by past hosts of Screening Day in their own\norganization or community.\n‍ \nClick here to register and watch webinar.
URL:https://www.icrg.org/event/screening-for-gambling-disorder/
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