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Twelve Step Facilitation
Open enrollment and contracted trainings for the Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF)
Outpatient Program are available.
Who should attend
- Adult and adolescent treatment providers
- Outpatient and inpatient treatment providers
- Mental health professionals
Participants will be able to
- develop a more constructive belief system regarding the Twelve Step philosophy as an evidence-based practice
- recognize clinical characteristics of the Twelve Steps through a therapeutic process
- demonstrate clinical aspects of the program as well as flexibility for different settings and populations such as adolescent, outpatient, inpatient, and mental health
- understand effective application of program components
Agenda
Day One
8:30 Registration/Welcome
9:00 Introduction: Goals of Training/Identification of Special Issues
9:30 Manual-Guided Treatment
• Early research
• Elements of effective manual-guided treatment
• Correlates of Recovery
10:00 Introduction to Twelve Step Facilitation
• “Evidence-based” treatment: Fidelity versus flexibility
• Project MATCH: 1-year, 3-year outcomes
• Post-MATCH Findings
• Current applications of TSF
• Questions
11:00 Break
11:15 TSF: Process
• TSF “active ingredients”
• Relationship of TSF process to outcome
• TSF Research: Lessons learned
• Role-Play: “Keeping your eye on the ball”
• Questions
12:30 Lunch
1:30 FAQs about TSF
• Do TSF therapists need to be in recovery in order to be effective?
• How important is it to cover all TSF core and elective topics?
• What if my client does not like AA meetings?
• The “God” thing
• The “powerlessness” thing
• Abstinence versus Controlled Use
• Questions
3:00 Break
3:15 Role-Play: Discussing Higher Power and Powerlessness
4:00 TSF: Structure
• Step 1: Review
• Step 2: New Material
• Step 3: Wrap-Up & Recovery Tasks
4:45 Questions
5:00 End of Day 1Day Two
8:30 Sign-in/Social Time
9:00 Questions/Reactions to Day 1
9:30 The use of “Induction” in TSF
• Rationale for induction
• TSFDD: Using a volunteer member of the recovery community
• “Number 12 Foundation”: Recruiting temporary sponsors
• TSF Outpatient Program: DVD: Introduction to 12 Step Groups
• Questions
10:30 Break
10:45 TSF: Content
• The Core Program
• The Elective Program
• The Conjoint Program
• Termination
• Role-Play: Core Topic 2: Acceptance
• Role-play: Elective Topic 3: People, Places, and Routines
• Questions
12:00 Guidelines for group implementation of TSF
• Inpatient applications
• Outpatient applications
• Questions
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Applications of TSF
• TSF and the female client
• Using TSF with co-occurring mental illness: Depression & PTSD
• TSF and the homeless population
• Questions
3:15 Break
3:30 Applications of TSF
• TSF with chronic serious mental illness: Schizophrenia, Bipolar DO.
• DTR/DRA Versus AA/NA for the dually-diagnosed
• The role of the therapist in applying TSF to those with chronic severe mental illness
• TSFDD: Lessons Learned and future development
• Role-play: Step 1 for the Dually-Diagnosed
• Questions
4:45 Evaluations, Post-Test & Certificates of Completion
Contracted trainings for Twelve Step Facilitaton are available.
Read or downlaod the Introduction to Twelve Step Groups Facilitator's Guide with worksheet.
