Community Corner
Helping an Addicted Relative or Friend
Helping an Addicted Friend or Family Member
This presentation will address the traps & pitfalls that await lay people trying to help an addicted person:
- enabling behavior, manipulation and deceit
- learn the realities that guide both treatment professionals and other trying to help an addicted person
- how to make effective referrals & work with treatment staff
- understand addiction as a chronic illness with acute phases of using and abstinence
- learn what finally motivates patients to enter into long term recovery
Presenters:
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Stephen Jay Levy, Ph.D. Psychologist, author, clinician. Founding Director Nyack Recovery Center Inpatient Unit,; Clinical Director, Rockland County Crack Cocaine Program; Program Director, Dual Diagnosis Unit, Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital; Adjunct Faculty St. Thomas Aquinas College
Paul Maide, CASAC. Certified Alcohol & Substance Abuse Counselor. Co-therapist with Dr. Levy in private practice therapy group for addicted patients. Intervention Specialist.