Helping Clients in Recovery Achieve Emotional Sobriety

Emotional sobriety has begun to take its rightful place in the treatment of addiction. Simply stated, emotional sobriety is the ability to be a determining force in one's life. This involves taking 100% responsibility for creating one's own experience. Self-regulation is an important part of emotional sobriety. 

In this 2-hour continuing education web conference, Allen Berger, PhD will discuss the concept of emotional sobriety from the work of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Dr. Berger will also discuss how emotional sobriety relates to a much larger perspective in psychotherapy and how clinicians can help clients achieve this state of mind. 

This introductory instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Summarize the definition of emotional sobriety and its elements.
2. Describe two ways that emotional dependency interferes with emotional sobriety.
3. Apply two interventions to help a client recover their emotional center of gravity.
4. Summarize two of the columns of the Emotional Sobriety Inventory Form. 
5. List two ways that Chair Work can facilitate a client's awareness of their emotional dependency. 

Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: The contents of this program are based primarily on research done over the past thirty years of integrating modern psychotherapy with the Twelve Step Recovery methodology. Quotes used are from several master psychotherapists. References will be provided. 
 
Declaration of conflicts of interest and commercial support: None

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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