Course Description:

This is an interactive 6hr workshop for anyone who works with and would like to have a better understanding of men and how to help them. Participants will be challenged to examine assumptions and societal roles in male risk and recurrence factors, through media use and storytelling. Anger, intimacy, trust, relationship issues, suicide risk, and the efficacy of integrative and alternative therapies will be explored.

Course Goals:

1. Review the societal biases and “environment of risk” affecting males in resiliency, addiction onset, recurrence and recovery.

2. Underline the efficacy of a compassionate approach in working with men.

3. Demonstrate the dynamics and relate the value of integrative and alternative therapies with men.

4. Utilize targeted questionnaires specific to the male cultural experience.

Other information:

• NAADAC Counselor Group Skills: Clinical Intake and Screening, Counseling Services, Case management, Treatment plan, Discharge, Continuing Care and Professional Development
• Contact Hours & CEUs: 6.0 hours-must attend and participate on both days.
• Cost: $60.00
• Approved by: NAADAC, TDMHSAS, TCB and not approved for CPRS

Presenter:

Alan Lyme, LISW, CCS, brings respected and innovative clinical and training skills from his home in Greenville, South Carolina. With over 30 years of clinical experience, Alan has been an active member of MINT (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers) since 2004, earning MINT Trainer Certification. He is a NAADAC Certified Clinical Supervisor, and a Leadership Challenge Certified Master. He is concurrently the trainer for South Carolina’s most recent Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) grant, as he has been for several SBIRT grants since 2009. He can be contacted at alanlyme@gmail.com