A Success Story of how Psychotherapy Guided One Woman’s Long-term Opioid Recovery
September 13, 2019 @ 5:00 am - 8:00 am
A Success Story of how Psychotherapy Guided One Woman’s Long-term Opioid Recovery
Friday, September 13, 2019
Program: 9am to 12pm Registration: 8:30am
Presented By: Kevin Moore, Psy.D.
Location: PCOM 4170City Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19131 Evans Hall 327
3.0 CE Credits
This presentation outlines a fourteen-year long psychotherapy that helped guide to recovery and health one woman who was traumatized, suicidally depressed, agoraphobic, medically unstable, and addicted to multiple substances including opioids. Through her example, several key principles of long-term psychotherapy are high-lighted including negotiating boundaries, remaining engaged despite changes in agency and psychotherapeutic frame, working in an integrative medicine setting, and maintaining connection through appropriate expression of care and interest.
Objectives:
- Describe negotiating boundaries in a long-term psychotherapy.
- Discuss remaining engaged with long term therapy patients despite changes in agency/workplace and psychotherapeutic frame.
- Explain working in an integrative medicine setting as a psychotherapist.
- Compare maintaining connection to a long-term psychotherapy patient through appropriate expression of care and interest versus referring out.
- Analyze how long-term psychotherapy can play a key role in treating the opioid epidemic.
Dr. Kevin Moore has been providing long-term psychotherapy to people with opioid addiction for two decades. He established and directed of a Center of Excellence for Opioid Addiction. He has pioneered innovative integrative medicine treatments for people with opioid addiction as well as people living with HIV. He is co-author of a book released in 2019 titled Integrative Medicine for Vulnerable Populations, which includes his research on treating opioid addiction. He currently serves as Director of Care Coordinator at Accessible Recovery Services Treatment Centers, the largest provider of Medication Assisted Treatment in Pennsylvania.
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