Going down the road feeling bad: Form and substance in addiction treatment

Title : Going down the road feeling bad: Form and substance in addiction treatment

Abstract:

The title of the late Jerry Garcias iconic Greatful Dead anthem is a pithy and iconic encapsulation of the idea of embedded narrative and problem in living way of conceptualizing addictions and treatment. In a CBTish way of thinking, the problem of psychic pain is addressed by an embedded, but irrational way of thinking about coping that hurts and doesn?t show too much? a seamless approach to a life. Experience and cognitive-affective truth are the model du jour and an ego syntonic way of holding oneself together and formulating the problem in living in a way that fits the cocreated circumstances of the client-treater relationship. Treatment is how one writes the plan and lives it through to the end of a difficult chapter. 

What will audience learn from your presentation?  

• The audience will be able to use what they learn by incorporating in what they know, several simple and clear ways of thinking broadly about addictions and how these principles are both grounded in the evidence base and the experience and lives of the treater and their client(s). 
• How will this help the audience in their job? Is this research that other faculty could use to expand their research or teaching? Does this provide a practical solution to a problem that could simplify or make a designer?s job more efficient? Will it improve the accuracy of a design, or provide new information to assist in a design problem? List all other benefits: The talk provides a narrative which the audience can easily remember, use to reinforce their particular knowledge base, treatment setting or syllabus, and integrate the particulars into their typical practice. 

Biography:

Dr. Tyler Carpenter is a Board Certified (Clinical) Licensed Psychologist Provider who obtained his doctoral degree from St. John’s University and a Master’s degree in General-Experimental Psychology at the C.W. Post College of Long Island University. He has 33 years of professional practice experience in assessment, treatment, supervision, consultation, and research experience on psychosis, character disorder, trauma, offending behavior, suicidal patients, personality, forensics, and disability. He has provided treatments across inpatient, outpatient, and correctional settings. Dr. Carpenter’s approach to treatment and consultation is to meet the client where they are and work with them around their personal, group and organizational goals, using approaches and understandings consistent with personal, clinical, and research fundamentals, ethics,  experience, and to arrive at a mutually determined and satisfying place of resolution, closure and accomplishment on his clients’ behalf.