The 12th Annual International Conference on Treatment of Addictive Behaviors (ICTAB-12), sponsored by the UNM Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA), is set for Sunday – Wednesday, Feb. 7 – 10, 2010, at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M. The 2010 Conference Theme is “Evidence-Based Treatment in Real World Systems: Maximizing Service, Value, and Outcome.” Two conference deadlines of note include "Call for Papers" on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, and the early-bird conference registration deadline of Friday, Dec. 11, 2009.
Since 1979, ICTAB has been communicating recent therapeutic methods and research knowledge to professionals working with the addictive behaviors. Committed to the integration of science and practice, ICTAB brings together international professionals from a variety of disciplines. An enduring focus of ICTAB is on commonalities in the etiology, process, and treatment of alcohol/drug abuse and other addictive behaviors.
Two one-day pre-conference workshops, featuring UNM faculty members, will also be offered as part of the conference on Sunday, Feb. 7 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
UNM Professors Robert J. Meyers and Jane Ellen Smith host Workshop A: Working with Family Members to Engage Treatment-Refusers into Treatment: CRAFT. This pre-conference workshop will provide an introduction to Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT). CRAFT is an empirically-supported treatment that teaches skills to the family members of treatment-refusing substance abusers. The goals of CRAFT are to teach these distressed family members how to engage resistant substance abusers into treatment while also improving their own psychosocial functioning. Lecture, role-plays, and group exercises will be used.
Additionally, William R. Miller, Professor Emeritus, and Assistant Professor Theresa B. Moyers, will conduct Workshop B: Training and Supervision of Motivational Interviewing (MI). This workshop will introduce participants to a model for evaluating trainee needs in learning motivational interviewing and discuss strategies for tailoring MI training to meet those needs. We will introduce participants to instruments for evaluating MI competence and discuss new research pertaining to active ingredients of this clinical method.
Moyers, who is also the conference chair and assistant professor of Psychology at UNM, says proposals are invited for contributed presentations at ICTAB-12. Submitted papers should be based on original research relevant to the nature, prevention and treatment of addictive behaviors. Papers describing outcome and process research with treatment and prevention programs are particularly encouraged.
Abstracts may not exceed 500 words and should reflect the basic methodology and findings of the work to be presented. Research in progress may be submitted if informative new results will clearly be available by the time of the conference.
For more information on the pre-conference workshops and a list of featured presentations, call for papers, registration forms, registration fees, deadlines and accommodations visit: ICTAB-12. For more information on the host hotel visit: Eldorado Hotel.