Topics discussed in this episode
🟣 Doug's 24 years clean and sober
🟣 Losing connections to Substance Use Disorder
🟣 Looking for ways to emotionally connect as a SUD counselor
🟣 Group work: tying connections for higher success rates
🟣 Peer support gaining steam
🟣 Innovating new models of care because clients changing faster than industry
🟣 Developing EABT Emotional Attachment Behavioral Therapy
🟣 Strengths and weaknesses of CBT and DBT
🟣 Why negative behaviors must be replaced with positive behaviors.
🟣 EABT's 3 prong approach
🟣 From 12-step powerlessness to self-directed clients in charge
🟣 Therapy model for counselors focused on effective exercises with clients
🟣 Making John Bowlby's 4 attachment styles more accessible
🟣 Creating secure environment for clients to decrease insecure attachment styles + increase secure attachment styles
🟣 EABT for LGBTQ+, peer support, parents of adolescents with SUD, couple therapy, trauma therapy.
🟣 Results of 12 month EABT pilot study with 700 patients
🟣 EABT impact on atypical discharges
🟣 8 primary objectives of EABT
🟣 EABT certified group training accredited by NAADAC
🟣 Being chosen to present at NAADAC
🟣 Different ways to define and access recovery.
🟣 Innovation in addiction treatment can come from experience and not just academics
Addiction Podcast Guest:
Doug Smith Developer of Emotional Attachment Behavioral Therapy + Founder of Innovative Realities
🔗www.learneabt.com
🔗innovativerealities.org
Organization info: Innovative Realities
Guest location: Oregon
Addiction Podcast Host:
Chris Langley, Co-Founder | Addiction Recovery Place
