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What’s Love Got to Do With It? The Traumatic Cycle of Love Addiction/ Love Avoidance

In-Person
1.5 CE Hour
Clinical

Presented By

  • Jean Collins Stuckert, MSW, LCSW, LISAC, CSAT-S
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Description

Rooted in childhood relational trauma, the dynamic of this co-addicted relationship is obsessive and painful. Love addicts assign too much value, time, and attention to another person while neglecting to care for or value themselves. Love avoidants systematically use relational walls during intimate contact to prevent feeling overwhelmed by the other person, associating “love” with duty or work. The love avoidant’s greatest fear is that of vulnerability, and the love addict’s great fear is abandonment. In this workshop, Jean will identify the origins and the attachment styles of both addict and avoidant and delve into the intricacies of “The Dance” between them. The antidote for these destructive relationships will also be revealed.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Psychologist
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Define Love Addict and Love Avoidant. Describe 2 aspects of the origins for each.

  • Describe the cycle of a co-addicted relationship and list each stage.

  • Identify at least three elements of the Love Addiction/Love Avoidance cycle.

  • Describe at least 2 treatment interventions for Love Addiction/Love Avoidance.

References

  • Brian D. Earp,1,2,3 Olga A. Wudarczyk,2 Bennett Foddy,1,2 and Julian Savulescu1,2 Addicted to love: What is love addiction and when should it be treated? (2017) Johns Hopkins University Press,doi: 10.1353/ppp.2017.0011

  • Helen Fisher, Xiaomeng Xu, Arthur Aron, Lucy L Brown Intense, Passionate, Romantic Love: A Natural Addiction: How the fields of the investigate romance and substance abuse can inform each other. ( 2016) Frontiers in Psychology doi 10.3389/fpsyg2016.00687

  • M. Sanches, V.P. John Treatment of love addiction: Current status and perspectives (2019) The European Journal of Psychiatry Volume 33, Issue 1, January–March 2019, Pages 38-44

  • Stefano Orsolini, Paolo Antonelli, Gioele Salvatori & Davide Dèttore (2022) Suicidal Ideation in a Group of Italian Love Addicts: A Qualitative Research, Sexual Health & Compulsivity, DOI: 10.1080/26929953.2022.2056556

  • Pia Mellody Andrea Wells Miller J. Keith Miller Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love (2003) HarperOne ISBN-13, 978-0062506047

  • Feeney, J. A., & Noller, P. (1990). Attachment style as a predictor of adult romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(2), 281–291. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.58.2.281

Introductory
Clinical
Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Marriage & Family Therapist

This workshop meets the requirements and has been approved for 1.5 hours for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists in Louisiana by the Louisiana Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Counselor

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Jean Collins Stuckert, MSW, LCSW, LISAC, CSAT-S

Jean Collins-Stuckert, Executive Director of Workshops at the Rio Retreat Center at The Meadows, is licensed in the state of Arizona as a clinical social worker (LCSW) and substance abuse counselor (LISAC). She received her master’s degree in social work from Arizona State University. Collins-Stuckert is also a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT-S) and is trained in Post Induction Therapy (PIT), Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Psychodrama.

Jean Collins-Stuckert has been in the behavioral health field for more than two decades and joined the Meadows Behavioral Healthcare team in 2007. At MBH, she has held positions that range from family and primary counselor to workshop facilitator, intake interventionist, and program and clinical director of workshops. In addition to bringing her vast experience and passion for intensives to Rio Retreat Center, Collins-Stuckert also owned and operated a successful private practice in Phoenix for a decade.

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