Uncovering Hidden Addictions: An Update on Alcohol, Sex, Gambling, Eating, and Shopping

Uncovering Hidden Addictions: An Update on Alcohol, Sex, Gambling, Eating and Shopping ~ 6 Hours

Friday, February 25, 2011  ~ 9:00am-4:00pm
San Francisco, CA

Addictive behaviors are not always recognized or treated  in common clinical practice.  This class provides an opportunity to learn about comorbidity involving substance use and behaviors with addictive features such as sex, gambling, internet use, shopping, and eating.

A focus of the learning experience will be how addictive behaviors can be hidden with common clinical disorders, as well as hidden amongst other addictions.  Lecture, case materials, video, and a question-answer session with be used for this presentation.

Participation in this class is intended to enhance participant:

• Clinical knowledge of addictive behaviors

  • Problem detection strategies for addictions

  • approaches for integrating relevant assessment and intervention methods for comorbidity

  • identification of practice recourses, and familiarity with evidence-based practices for addictions

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Timothy W. Fong, M.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He also serves as Director of the UCLA Impulse Control Disorder Clinic, Co-Director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program, and Director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic.

 

Heidi Hartston, Ph.D., is a Psychologist in private practice in Oakland and Palo Alto, California, who works with clients with anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, including problems with compulsive shopping. She has published original research on clinical and neuropsychological features as well as treatment outcomes in compulsive shopping, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other OC-Spectrum disorders, and has been featured in print and on television.

 

Nancy A. Piotrowski, Ph.D., is former Past President of American Psychological Association (APA) Division 50 (Addictions) and an APA Fellow who practices in San Francisco.  She also has conducted clinical research for more than 25 years and serves as Lead Faculty in Psychology at Capella University, Adjunct Faculty at Alliant International University/California School of Professional Psychology, and teaches for the Chemical Dependency Certificate Program at University of California Berkeley Extension.

 

Susan Raeburn, Ph.D., CSAT, Institute Co-Chair and Presenter, is a staff Psychologist at the Chemical Dependency Treatment Services at Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek and in private practice in Berkeley.  She is also co-author of Creative Recovery: A Complete Addiction Treatment Program that Uses Your Natural Creativity.

 

Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT, is Executive Director and Founder of the Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles, California, which is an outpatient program for sexual addiction and also offers treatment for sexual offenders.  He is also co-author of Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy to Obsession, author of Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men, and co-author of Untangling the Web: Sex, Porn, and Fantasy Addiction in the Internet Age.

 

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