CONFERENCE

SPEAKERS

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

 

Karen M. Carpenter-Palumbo, Commissioner

Karen M. Carpenter-Palumbo, Commissioner, New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services

 

 

Roger Svendsen, MS, CPPR, Executive Director, Northstar Problem Gambling Alliance, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Problem Gambling Prevention: Moving Forward in 2008

This program will provide an overview of the past 15 years in the gambling field, recent developments and where the field is heading on a National level.  A review of the risk and protective factor research related to problem gambling among youth will be given.  Participants will discuss what works in prevention, particularly focusing on environmental strategies and have an opportunity to learn about the integration of problem gambling prevention into existing school and community prevention programs. This workshop will also focus on assisting people of all ages to begin talking about gambling.

 

 

 

Christopher W.  Anderson, MS, Gambling Recovery Center, Evanston, Illinois -- Mr. Anderson has a MS in Clinical Counseling with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy.  He is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Illinois, and is a National Certified Gambling Counselor and Supervisor who maintains a practice in the Chicago area where he specializes in the treatment of gamblers and their families.  Additionally, he supervises clinicians nationwide who are in training for the National Gambling Counselor Certification. He conducts training seminars on compulsive gambling in North America, has presented the Keynote Address at numerous conferences in the United States and Canada, is frequently consulted and utilized as a forensic expert on gambling issues, and appears frequently on radio and television to promote awareness of compulsive gambling issues. 

Mr. Anderson is a recovering compulsive gambler.

 

The Healing Power of Presence - Advanced Clinical Training

The core process of gambling addiction involves the repetitive pattern of escape from an unmanageable reality into a ‘manageable’ fantasy (dream world).  Gamblers believe that ‘all the good things in life are just around the corner after the big win is finally made’ – that life for them is not in the Present, but at some point in the future.  There is a healing power that manifests when a patient/client, with the clinicians help, moves out of the past and/or the future and into the Present.  The focus of this workshop is how clinicians can access the power of presence and utilize that in the treatment of pathological gamblers. 

 

 

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