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.”
Today, there are many treatments to help persons and families affected by alcohol and drug problems that have strong scientific evidence that they are effective. However, how to make these treatments widely available is a challenge for individual treatment providers, treatment programs, and state and Federal agencies responsible for alcohol and drug treatment.
ICTAB-12 brings together an international group of leaders in bridging the gap between science and service delivery who will give plenary talks about Federal policy initiatives, state reimbursement models, innovative service-delivery approaches in other countries, innovative approaches in the criminal justice system, and cost- and cost-effectiveness issues. Many other scientists also will be presenting their latest research on innovative treatments and research to better understand the problems of those with alcohol and drug problems.
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.
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.
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.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at February 2, 2010 01:00 PM