OBJECTIVES:
Identify, Describe How Clients and Families Come to your Practice
Identify , Describe and Discuss Addiction, Mental Heath , Trauma , Chronic Pain and Process Disorders
Identify how Trauma, Shame ,Guilt, Humiliation, Embarrassment , Grief and Loss Effect Ones Story about Themselves
3. About Dr. Louise Stanger
• Clinician-Educator
• Interventionist of the Year -2019
DB Resources and McLean
Hospital-An Affiliate of Harvard
• Author-Falling Up A Memoir of
Renewal- Amazon
• The Clinicians Guide to Addiction
Interventions-In press
Routhledge
• Widow, Wife, Mother,
Grandmother
• Adventurer
7. Objectives
Identify, Describe How Clients and Families Come to
your Practice
Identify , Describe and DiscussAddiction, Mental
Heath , Trauma , Chronic Pain and Process Disorders
Identify how Trauma, Shame ,Guilt, Humiliation,
Embarrassment , Grief and Loss Effect Ones Story about
Themselves
8. Objectives
• Articulate your philosophy of
practice
• Identify, Describe and
Demonstrate CIS and Family
Mapping as a way into story
• Share invitational vocabulary
11. What Is your Philosophy of
Treatment?
Take a few minutes and
write down 3 or 4 words
that describes your
philosophy of treatment.
12. My Philosophy Of Treatment
Sheldon Kopp.
Existential
Strength Based
Gift of the Buddah
13. Philosophy
Strength based-it begins by looking for what is good and healthy
and assumes the expression of goodness will always be laced with
imperfections.
Collaborative qualitative inquiry- The researcher becomes part
of the conversation -Become witness to the conversation
The Context -where the interview takes place becomes part of
the portrait -Human experience is framed shaped by the setting.
Discovering the tension between life, loss and liberation.
14. Who Am I ?
“I am the mirror who reflects back their pain, their fears their
voices. I am the inquirer who asks difficult questions, who searches
for evidence and patterns. I am the companion on the journey
bringing my own story to the encounter, making possible an
interpretive collaboration, I am the audience who listens , laughs ,
weeps an applauds. I am the spider women spinning their tales.. I
am the therapist who offers cathaersis support and challenge… I am
also the stage manager coordinating the intersection of three plays-
the story teller, the narrator and the readers inviting your voice to
the drama”
19. ASAM March, 2011
A Primary Chronic Disease of
the brain reward, motivation,
memory and related circusy
Dysfunction leads to Biological,
psychological, social and
spiritual manifestations
Individual pathologically
pursing reward or relief thru
substances
20.
21. Chronic Pain
133 million People Experience Chronic
Pain
1 in 5 globally
153 Billion was spent on adolescent chronic
pain
65% of all people experience chronic pain
once in their life
75 % of all heron users started with a
prescription
155 people die daily
25. Definitions of Trauma
Overwhelming experiencing that
cannot be integrated and elicit
animal defensive mechanisms and
dysregulated arousal
“A stress that causes physical or
emotional harm that you cannot
remove yourself from”
Larke Huang , Director of Health
Care Equity at SAMSHA
26. Trauma is objective
What happened ( My
father killed himself, My
baby dies of SIDS, I was
date raped , humiliated etc
27. Trauma is subjective :
How do I perceive the situation ?
Relationship to early child-
hood experiences -and
Alcoholism
Adverse Childhood
Experience- 17,000 patients -
Kaiser- effects of trauma are
cumulative and one of most
destructive forms is recurrent
calling and humiliation
35. Getting Emotionally Hooked
When I Experience X
I Feel- Body Sensation
I Think -Whats my go-to
thought process
Behavior-What do I do?
36.
37.
38.
39. Folks Are More Then Their Trauma
Questions about life role
Your place in life
Coupled with a sense of loss
Perhaps we have lost a core
part of ourselves
Sometimes we become still
and quiet
40.
41. Shame
Shame is that intensely painful
feeling of believing we are
flawed and therefore
unworthy of love and
belonging.
I am not good enough
Brene Brown
42.
43. Guilt
Have you ever stolen
anything ?
Had guilty thoughts ?
Have you ever lied?
Made up a confabulation?
48. Loss and Grieving
Loss -Something of Value is
gone
Grief = Total response to an
emotional experience related to
loss
Breavement- Subjective
response by loved one
Mourning -behavioral response
51. Invitation is to
Wholehearted living
Strength based
Cultivates Curiosity
Owning Your Story
( Falling down and Rising
UP)
To look at our SFD and
Confabulations
52. Family Mapping Is the Way In
Story is our way home
“We are the authors of our own
lives
We write our own daring endings
We craft love from heartbreak
Compassion from shame
Grace from disappointment
Courage from failure
Showing Up is our Power
58. Why CIS?
• Collective - In that to be successful there must be a
team of Families, Friend, Collegues, Associates,
business partners , managers or co-workers
assembled to bring about change
• Intervention- In that we seek to move (i.e/ motivate a
person to a place of change)
• Strategy, in that nothing is set in stone ; we may adapt
the process as needed
59. • Strength Based
• Solution Focused
• People are Teachable
• Change is Possible
• The Present is Important
• We can rise to our best
possible self
Philosophical Underpinnings
62. Theoretical Strategies
• Motivational Interviewing
• Cognitive Behavioral
• Acceptance & Commitment
• Values Clarification
• Solution Focused
• 12 Step or other Self help
• Mindfulness
• Breathing
63. Counseling Skills Used
•Listening- Empathy
•Genuine
•Unconditional Positive Regard
•Concreteness
•Reflecting- Echoing Key words
•Body Language
•Open Ended Questions
•Paraphrasing- Summarizing
•Counselor Self Disclosure
•To Do Not Harm
64. Interventions Include a Village of
Potential Change Agents
Participants are experts
Value Driven
Solution Focused
Evidenced Based
Interventionists job is to bring
people together for the common
good and to identify SA, MH
and other issues
66. Families are taught
• The nature of substance
abuse process and mental
health disorders. If
appropriate about chronic
pain syndrome or other
medical legal problems
• The way an intervention is
conducted
• The active and instrumental
part they have in moving
someone to change
74. Interventions Include a Village of
Potential Change Agents
Participants are experts
Value Driven
Solution Focused
Evidenced Based
Interventionists job is to bring
people together for the common
good and to identify SA, MH
and other issues
75. Clinician Interventionsist
Must Be able to :
• Develop a Team
• Do a Family Map that engages everyone
• Do a Retrospective -bio-psycho-social
• Develop case strategy
• Create Treatment Plan & Placement
• Case Management
• Follow with Aftercare
• Facilitate Family Engagement in the
healing process
• Have Concierge Capabilities
• ETHICS are Paramount
76. Beliefs an individual or
group makes about
what constitutes proper
behavior
Standard of Conduct
Make sure you know
87. Qualitative Questions
Tell Me about ………..
Tell me about your Family..
Tell me about your
children, family,
Grandparents etc
88. 20
The Wounded Hearts
Secrets & Lies
I LO
Substance Abuse
Legal
Jack
Learning disability
SallySusie
Laura John
MikeJim Sr Mary
Jack Susan
Jena
Jim
Anxiety & depression
Medical
Bullying
Work
RAGE
Religiosity
Perfectionism -
everythinglooks good
Secrets
T
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TT
T
T
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T= Trauma
= Money Issues
Sample Family Map
18
= Affair
Sally
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died age 38
1614
89.
90. Meet Christine
32 yo music executive
Opioids and disorder eating
Mother and Father
Brother Cooper
92. About Sally
• Mother -Father South American, Jewish
descent
• Father Hx of Depression
• Family has 4 children- Sally is the
Subsequent child of an infant death -
Brother died of brain tumor at 9 months,
older brother age 5 dx with autism- PTS
• Bullying, Isolation , No Friends
• Trauma Riding , at School Sexual
Assault
• 4 Suicide Attempts-Disorded Eating-
• Pills & Marijuana
• No Formal Inpatient Treatment
94. Meet Jack and his family
54 yo old retired executive lives
with 29 yo son
Two previous treatment episodes
3 children 19, 22, 29
Wife in process of divorce
Being asked to leave treatment
center as wrong placement
Had to get him fromA -B
95.
96.
97. Families Readiness to Change
In 2 months 3 out of 5 family members were ready to
change
In 7 months 3 out of 5 family members had engaged in
treatment which lasted more then 60 days. 1 family
member went for a 2 week intensive,
2 Private therapists
1 family member refused treatment
99. First major accident age 14
Family History of SA , MH and Molestation
Pain Body, SexualAssault Trainer
For past 9 years has been in and out of treatment
centers
Walking on crutches or not walking at all
100. Maddi gains trust with primary clinician
Maddi gains trust with exercises
Maddi Starts to talk to therapist
Family is confronted with their substance abuse and
their need to detach
Maddi experiences a difference in family
Maddi experiences a Community IntegrationApproach
Maddi could be your next client
114. Resources
Brown, Brene- Rising Strong . Speiegel & Grau International 2015 NYC NY
Brown, Brene, DaringGreatly. Gothom Books 2012
Lawrence Lightfoot,Sarah & Hoffman Jessica .TheArt and Science of
Portraiture. Joey Bass. 1997
LawrenceLightfoot, S. Respect , 1998. Press Books, Mass.
Lawrence, Lightfoot,S. I’ve Known Rivers , Penguin Publishing. Ny 1995
Lawrence, Lightfoot, S Growing Each Other Up, University of Chicago Press.
2016
115. Resources
Kopp, Sheldon- If You Meet The Buddah on the Road , Kill Him,
1982. Penguin House Random House, NY, NY
Stanger, Louise. Falling Up-A Memoir of Renewal 2015, WZY Press
Stanger,http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tricksters-addiction-
you_us_592f0f7ee4b0d80e3a8a329e
Stanger http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-are-the-
differences-between-trauma-addiction_us_58f4e7aee4b048372700da27
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