Dr. Grinstead's Trainings

This 20 Hour Presentation Is 6 Hours September 15, 16, 17 and 2 Hours September 21, 2021

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This workshop consists of 20 contact hours of online training presented by Dr. Stephen F. Grinstead who has been an Advanced Certified Relapse Prevention Specialist (ACRPS) since his initial training with Terence T. Gorski in 1991. As a Gorski-CENAPS® Trainer from 1996 to 2016 Dr. Grinstead has trained well over 40,000 health care providers. This training is based in part on the Gorski-CENAPS® Developmental Model of Recovery and Dr. Stephen F. Grinstead’s experience of almost four decades in the addiction treatment and relapse prevention arena. 

This clinical skills training is for professional clinicians who want to learn how to help their clients identify and manage the warning signs and high risks situations that lead to relapse despite a commitment to sobriety. The main premise of this training is to start recovery with relapse prevention and start relapse prevention with denial management. You will learn that relapse is a process not and event and that there are many identifiable warning signs and high-risk situations (Relapse Justifications) that occur far in advance of alcohol and/or other drug use. This training is designed to provide competency in warning sign and high-risk situation identification and management for relapse-prone clients. 

This is a two-part process including 20 Hours of online training and then completing the optional Competency Certification Portfolio. Competency Certification is awarded based on the ability to demonstrate competency during the training and to complete a Certification Portfolio demonstrating a full understanding of the Warning Sign Identification and Management process and the ability to apply these methods with a relapse-prone client using the Manualized Relapse Prevention Client Workbook.

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Upon completing this Relapse Prevention Competency Training, you will be able to:

1. Explain relapse as a process—not an event—and educate your clients that recognizing and managing early relapse warning signs is crucial step in stopping a potential relapse cycle. 
2. Identify and be able to develop a management plan for the six (6) symptoms of Protracted or Post Acute Withdrawal (PAW) as part of a strategic relapse prevention plan. 
3. Develop a strategic Craving Management plan by education your clients about the biological and psychological components of craving and utilize the nine (9) steps of an effective craving management plan that becomes a major component of a strategic relapse prevention plan. 
4. Look at denial differently by normalizing and “de-pathologizing” this human defense mechanism in order to explain it to the clients you serve. 
5. Understand and explain that Denial Management requires building a Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual foundation in order to reduce or illuminate a client’s risk of a chemical relapse. 
6. Develop and Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual foundation plan to help people better manage relapse triggers and help their clients maintain quality recovery and lower their risk of relapse.
7. Implement a three-part Relapse Intervention Plan (R.I.P.) that includes developing strategic interventions for your client, your client’s clinician, and the clients three accountability partners.
8. Teach your clients to understand and utilize a 17 item Relapse Indicator Checklist on a daily basis in order to reduce the client’s risk of a potential relapse episode.
9. Assist your clients to identify and manage their most important High-Risk Relapse Indicator (aka relapse warning sign) by utilizing a Problem/Solution Cognitive Behavioral Restructuring process.
10. Teach your clients how to develop a strategic recovery plan utilizing community resources that is specifically designed to help them identify and manage future Warning Signs and High-Risk Situations. 

This 6 Hour self-paced Webinar explores the often-misunderstood chronic pain cycle that if left untreated can sabotage effective chronic pain management. You will see how the chronic pain cycle leads to “remodeling” of the pain system including people developing an anticipatory pain reaction and learn how to effectively intervene. 

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By joining me you'll be able to…

• Differentiate between the physiological and psychological/emotional pain symptoms and have appropriate management strategies for both types.
• Learn how to help chronic pain sufferers move beyond anticipatory pain and break the chronic pain cycle.
• Teach your clients how to better communicate about their pain by developing and using a verbal description 10-Levels of Pain Scale.
•  Investigate reasons why the biomedical approach alone may be ineffective for the low outcome subset of chronic pain clients with coexisting disorders. 
•  Develop a treatment plan that helps clients let go of suffering and adequately addresses the psychological/emotional symptoms of their pain. 
•  Analyze the needs of clients as they explore the correlation of increased stress and worsening levels of pain and how to develop appropriate relaxation response skills to reduce their levels of stress and the perception of their pain. 
• Categorize at least five of the twelve denial patterns (psychological defense mechanisms) that can sabotage treatment outcomes. 

This Webinar explores what most people who have never experienced suffering with chronic pain don’t know. That there are many secondary problems under the surface that sabotage chronic pain management. Learn how to look below the surface of living with chronic pain. Discover new recommendations favoring behavioral and Holistic treatments and help more people than ever before who are seeking drug-free solutions for their chronic pain.  

This course also draws from the 2018 “American Society of Addiction Medicine Handbook: Pain and Addiction” – including Dr. Grinstead’s Chapter: “Self-directed Non-Pharmacological Management of Chronic Pain.”

Purchase Here  This Self-Paced Digital Seminar "The New Rules For Treating Chronic Pain: Addiction Free Solutions in the Era of Opioid Crisis." 

Also Available On A DVD

Now you can earn 6 CEs from the comfort of your home or office. There is no time limit to complete a class. Once you purchase it, it is always accessible to you. You can complete it in one day or over one year. The online version is a fast paced and user-friendly process. 

Click the following link to learn more about my dynamic Psych Seminars 6 CE Hour Workshop "Freedom from Chronic Pain and Suffering: A Journey of Hope."  Or you can purchase this self-paced digital seminar here 

This presentation covers the four general areas that are important to address. These areas are the physical; psychological (thinking /feeling); social/cultural; and spiritual, as these are the ones most impacted when living with chronic pain and coexisting disorders. In addition, this presentation will explain the three major components that an effective chronic pain management treatment plan must have: 

• Effective and safe medication management planning

• A plan to manage the psychological/emotional
  components of pain

• The proactive practice of self-directed, non-medication
  based and holistic interventions

If you want to make a critical difference with people who are still suffering with chronic pain and coexisting disorders, I hope that you will join me for this six hour online course offered by Psych Seminars.  One of the most misunderstood and under-treated populations today are those suffering with chronic pain and coexisting disorders, including addiction. By obtaining this seminar you will gain new insights and more effective strategies, as well as boost your self-confidence. 

There is no time limit to complete a class. Once you purchase it, it is always accessible to you. You can complete it in one day or over one year. The online version is a fast paced and user-friendly process. 

Click the following Button to purchase This Self-Paced Digital Seminar "Freedom from Chronic Pain and Suffering: A Journey of Hope" 

• Please Note: CEUs Through Canadian Accreditation Bodies Only    

This 6 Hour Live Online Presentation Is October 19, 2021

In this live interactive presentation you will learn the unique challenges and obstacles that face patients suffering with chronic pain and coexisting disorders, including medication misuse abuse or addiction. By understanding these unique challenges, you will discover that it requires an integrated concurrent team approach to achieve successful treatment outcomes.

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The landscape of chronic pain treatment is changing rapidly as we wean ourselves off the traditional bio-medical approach that emphasizes harmful opioid-based pain management approaches.

Join chronic pain management international expert, Dr. Stephen F. Grinstead, for this dynamic interactive webinar. You will obtain the proper understanding, skills and treatment techniques you need to address the neurobiological psychological/emotional, social and Spiritual aspects of chronic pain when potentially addictive medications are no longer a viable option. 

By attending you will also learn about Dr. Grinstead’s evidence-based Addiction-Free Pain Management® Manualized Treatment System that successfully addresses the needs of this challenging population.

By attending this presentation you will be able to:

1. Investigate two or more reasons why the biomedical approach alone  may be ineffective for the low outcome subset of chronic pain clients  with coexisting disorders.
2. Evaluate three successful chronic pain management treatment outcomes.
3. Differentiate between the physiological and psychological/emotional  pain symptoms and have appropriate management strategies for both types.
4. Develop a treatment plan that helps clients let go of suffering and  adequately addresses the psychological/emotional symptoms of their pain.
5. Analyze the needs of clients as they explore the correlation of  increased stress and worsening levels of pain and how to develop  appropriate relaxation response skills to reduce their levels of stress  and the perception of their pain.
6. Categorize at least five of the twelve denial patterns (psychological defense mechanisms) that can sabotage treatment outcomes.

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This 6 Hour Live Online Presentation Is  November 16, 2021

This interactive webinar is for professional healthcare clinicians who want to learn how to assist their clients to identify and manage the progressive warning signs and high risks situations that lead to alcohol or other drug (AOD) relapse despite a commitment to sobriety. 

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You will learn that relapse is a process not and event and that there are many identifiable warning signs and high-risk situations that occur far in advance of their AOD use. Valuable tools will be introduced that will enable the you to assist your clients to take the mystery out of the relapse process and develop a strategic relapse prevention plan. You will learn how to utilize and personalize the “Relapse Cycle” and “Relapse Autopsy” processes to better help your clients in preventing a future relapse cycle. 

You will also discover how to develop an early relapse intervention plan (R.I.P.). Then you will be led through a strategic step by step high risk situation identification process. The process ends with teaching participants to help clients finalize a relapse prevention plan designed to help them better identify and manage future warning signs and high-risk situations. This webinar includes a combination of lectures, and interactive group discussions, designed to enhance the training process.

By attending this presentation you will be able to:

1. Aid clients in developing a strategic Relapse Intervention Plan  (R.I.P.) that includes three (3) core components that include choosing  professional and personal collaborative accountability partners that  will significantly reduce the risk or severity of a relapse episode.
2. Understand and utilize the five (5) components of a high-risk  situation management plan to assist clients in personalizing their own  relapse prevention plan designed to identify and manage future high-risk  situations.
3. Educate your clients about the nine (9) mistaken beliefs about  relapse that will lead to developing a more effective relapse prevention  plan.
4. Explain relapse as a process—not an event—and educate your clients  that recognizing and managing early relapse warning signs is crucial  step in stopping a potential relapse cycle.
5. Identify and be able to develop a management plan for the six (6)  symptoms of Protracted or Post Acute Withdrawal (PAW) as part of a  strategic relapse prevention plan.
6. Develop a strategic craving management plan by educating your clients  about the biological and psychological components of craving and utilize  the nine (9) steps of an effective craving management plan that becomes  a major component of a strategic relapse prevention plan.

 This 6 Hour Live Online Presentation Is  December 7, 2021

By attending and participating in this workshop you will be able to deal more effectively with clients exhibiting denial and treatment resistance. Upon completing this workshop, you will be able to understand the philosophy of resistance and denial as well as learning how to effectively intervene and disrupt your clients’ self-defeating patterns of behavior. 

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Using terms like the “inner saboteur” or self-defeating defenses is an important part of helping our clients recognize, normalize, de-pathologize and manage their denial. One important goal of this workshop is to educate, normalize and de-pathologize denial so we can help our clients recognize that it is a normal part of being human. You will learn how to identify and managing your personal denial patterns to be more effective helping their clients see theirs. You will be encouraged to explore your own personal defenses and how they developed in order to be more effective with the clients you serve. Special emphasis will be placed on building a collaborative relationship with clients. 

You will also learn the general steps of the Denial Management Interactional Process that is designed to manage denial in here-and-now interactions with clients and how to directly deal with the twelve most common denial patterns used by people with self-defeating patterns of behavior. Finally, this workshop teaches you how to develop the tools necessary to implement a successful treatment plan for teaching your clients strategic denial self-management skills.

By attending this presentation you will be able to:

1. Learn the five steps of the Denial Management Interactional Process  designed to identify and manage denial in here-and-now interactions with your clients.
2. Be able to assist your clients in directly identify and manage the  twelve most common denial patterns that can sabotage the treatment  process and quality of life.
3. Practice three or more clinical tools covered in this process  including how to make better decisions, conduct an inner dialog process  to help your clients manage denial and a bookmarking process designed to keep clients  focused on the immediate goal of treatment.
4. Look at denial differently by normalizing and “de-pathologizing”  this human defense mechanism in order to explain it to the clients you serve.
5. Identify and manage at least one of your personal Big Five Denial Patterns.
6. Identify and manage at least one of your personal Small Seven Denial Patterns.

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