Dopamine Demystified: Evidence-Based Strategies to Foster Client Change in the Age of Overconsumption
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$289 to Attend Both Days Live
In-person or Live Online
Led by Anna Lembke, MD
Mountain America Expo Center or Live Online
9575 State St, Sandy, UT 84070
8:30am-5:00pm MST (7:30am PT, 9:30am CT, 10:30am ET)
Learn strategies to help both you and your clients navigate the age of overindulgence. Prepare to demystify the complexities of compulsive behavior and unlock the keys to lasting change.
We are in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, and tweeting. The increased numbers, variety, and potency are staggering. As such, we have all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Yet, it is possible to find contentment and connectedness by keeping dopamine in check. Dr. Anna Lembke provides a practical, science-informed approach to addressing compulsive overconsumption of everything from food to sex to video games, using a framework captured by the acronym DOPAMINE
Anna Lembke, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, is a distinguished clinician-scholar with over a hundred peer-reviewed publications. She holds board positions in several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before U.S. Congressional committees, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
7:45 AM Check-In
8:30 AM-10:00 AM
(1.5 CE Hours)
Begin Training
Data: Analyze the type, quantity, and frequency of common substances and/or behaviors (gambling, gaming, sex) to enhance client/patient awareness and assist with data informed discussions of risk.
Objectives: Explore reasons that clients/patients use substances and behaviors as well as the gap between intentions and outcomes.
10:00 AM-10:15 AM
15 Minute Break
10:15 AM-12:00 PM
( 1.75 CE Hours)
Problems: Explain how our brains process pleasure and pain, and how chronic exposure to intoxicants tilts the hedonic (joy) set-point to the side of pain, contributing to depression, anxiety, and craving (i.e. the neuroscience of addiction).
Abstinence and Asceticism: Prepare the patient for a dopamine fast using self-binding strategies to reset reward pathways. Explore the science of hormesis: Using pain to treat pain.
12:00 PM-1:15 PM
Lunch on your own (75 minute break)
1:15 PM-3:00 PM
(1.75 CE Hours)
Afternoon Session:
Mindfulness: Gain a new understanding of the dopamine fast as an opportunity for self-reflection and a time to reacquaint ourselves with boredom.
Insight: Describe how radical honesty can increase awareness by strengthening the prefrontal cortex, as well as promote intimacy and foster a plenty mindset.
3:00 PM-3:15 PM
15 Minute Break
3:15 PM-4:00 PM
(0.75 CE Hours)
Next Steps: Discuss pros and cons of abstaining and consider future goals, that is whether to continue to abstain or return to using in moderation.
Experiment: List a detailed plan for consumption going forward and a method of data collection going forward, then allow the client/patient to venture forth and experiment with a new pattern of consumption until they return for another visit.
4:00 PM-5:00PM
(1 CE Hour)
Open Q & A
5:00 PM
Close Session
5:00 PM
(Book Signing)
