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Recorded on February 5, 2014
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A component of the Recovery to Practice (RTP) Initiative
Description
This free webinar will review what is known about the resolution of severe alcohol and other drug problems from the standpoint of scientific and historical research. The review will include information on the prevalence of recovery as well as the pathways, styles, stages, degrees and durability of recovery.
Learning Objectives
As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:
- report the estimated number of adults in remission from substance use disorders in the United States;
- define partial recovery, full recovery, and amplified recovery;
- identify four styles of recovery initiation;
- list three identity and four relational styles in long-term recovery;
- identify the time period at which the risk of future SUD recurrence for people in recovery dramatically declines; and
- discuss at least three implications for addiction professionals of the growing varieties of recovery experience.
Price
Education is FREE to all professionals
Earn 2 Continuing Education Hours (CEs)
To earn a CE Certificate for viewing this webinar, you must view the webinar in its entirety, pass the CE quiz, and complete the online survey evaluation.
- Upon completing the webinar, you will have access to the CE quiz within the course you are taking. Find the CE quiz in the NAADAC Education Center and click “purchase.” NAADAC members will be prompted to register for the CE quiz for free, while non-members will be prompted to pay a $25 processing fee to access the quiz.
- A score of 80% or higher is required to pass the CE quiz and access your CE certificate. You have 10 opportunities to pass the quiz. If you are unable to pass the quiz in the allocated number of tries, then you must retake the course.
- Upon passing the CE quiz, you will be required to complete the survey evaluation for the course. Once that is completed, your CE certificate will be immediately available in your account in the NAADAC Education Center to download and print. All certificates will be stored in the NAADAC Education Center under your profile name. Click here for detailed step-by-step instructions on how to access your CE quiz and download your CE certificate.
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This webinar is NOT eligible for ASWB ACE CE hours or NASW CE hours.
Presenter
William (Bill) White is a Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems, past-chair of the board of Recovery Communities United and a volunteer consultant to Faces and Voices of Recovery. He has a Master's degree in Addiction Studies from Goddard College and has worked full time in the addictions field since 1969 as a streetworker, counselor, clinical director, trainer and researcher. Bill has authored or co-authored more than 400 articles, monographs, research reports and book chapters and 16 books. His book, Slaying the Dragon - The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America, received the McGovern Family Foundation Award for the best book on addiction recovery. Bill's sustained contributions to the treatment field in the United States have been acknowledged by awards from the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, NAADAC: The Association of Addiction Professionals, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and the Native American Wellbriety Movement. His widely read papers on recovery advocacy are published in the book Let's Go Make Some History: Chronicles of the New Addiction Recovery Advocacy Movement. He has also recently published three seminal monographs: Recovery Management and Recovery-oriented Systems of Care: Scientific Rationale and Promising Practices, Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support: History, Theory, Practice and Scientific Evaluation, and Recovery-oriented Methadone Maintenance. His latest book, co-edited with John Kelly, is Addiction Recovery Management: Theory, Research and Practice. Bill's collected papers can be found at www.williamwhitepapers.com.
Who Should Attend
Direct care addiction counselors who provide addiction treatment and recovery services.
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