Defining Recovery Webinar
Overview
When:
02/13/2013
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Time: 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Location: WEBINAR
United StatesContact Information
Phone: 800.548.0497
When:
02/13/2013
Download Calendar Attachment:
Time: 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Location: WEBINAR
United StatesPhone: 800.548.0497
Defining Addiction Recovery
A component of the Recovery to Practice (RTP) Initiative
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 @ 3pm - 4pm EST (2 CST/1 MST/12 PST)
Description: The word "recovery" is often used, but what does it really mean? This webinar will highlight the emergence of recovery as an organizing paradigm for addiction treatment, outline the challenges in defining recovery and related concepts, review samples of work to date to define recovery, and discuss areas of emerging consensus and continued contention in defining recovery.
Learning Objectives: As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:
Price: Education is FREE to all professionals
Earn Continuing Education Credit: All applicants for CE credit are required to complete and pass this online CE Quiz after viewing the presentation. Members of NAADAC or AccuCare Subscribers receive a Certificate of Completion for 1 CE for free. Non-members of NAADAC or Non-subscribers of AccuCare receive 1 CE for $15 (make payment here). A CE certificate will be emailed to you within 21 days of submission and receiving payment, if applicable. Click here for a complete list of who accepts NAADAC Continuing Education Credit.
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.
Archived: This webinar will be recorded for later viewing. Complete the registration form to receive after the live broadcast links to the free recording and the online CE Quiz. Click here (coming soon...) to download this one-hour webinar for free after the webinar! Take the online CE Quiz (coming soon...) to earn credit for your time.
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This webinar is produced in partnership with Orion Healthcare Technology.