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Prodependence: Moving Past the Codependency Model

Moving Past the Codependency Model

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1 CE Hour
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Description

Ever since Codependent No More became a pop-culture sensation over 40 years ago, we’ve seen a torrent of book titles, articles, workshops, and whole therapy centers dedicated to this analytic, self-actualization-based concept. Today, Codependency remains our sole go-to model for assessing and treating families and spouses of addicts. And yet … codependency has never been a DSM or ICD diagnosis, lacks any universal diagnostic criteria, and has no acknowledged, validated research to support it. This provocative, fact-based talk offers a reevaluation of the codependency model while also introducing Prodependence, a strength-based, attachment-focused new paradigm evolved to engage and treat the loved ones of addicts more effectively. This new concept of Prodependence, evolved by Rob Weiss, Ph.D., LCSW, has just been published for academia by Rutledge, Tailor, and Francis as it is considered the first meaningful alternative to codependency in a nearly half-century.

Target Audience
  • • Counselors
  • • Addiction Counselors
  • • Social Workers
  • • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • • Psychologists
Learning Objectives

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

  • Describe 5 skills discussed in the workshop that can be implemented into clinical work with the spouses and loved ones of addicts.

  • Compare analytic versus attachment-sourced clinical care, listing 2 similarities and 2 differences.

  • Describe the 4 underlying clinical subtexts of codependency compared to those of Prodepedence.

References

  • Harlow, H. F. (1958). The nature of love. American psychologist, 13(12), 673.

  • Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T. B., & Layton, J. B. (2010). Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review. PLoS medicine, 7(7), e1000316.

  • House, J. S., Landis, K. R., & Umberson, D. (1988). Social relationships and health. Science, 241(4865), 540.

  • Irvine, L. (1999). Codependent forevermore: The invention of self in a twelve-step group. University of Chicago Press.

  • Johnson, S. (2008). Hold me tight: Seven conversations for a lifetime of love. Little, Brown.

  • Mellody, P., Miller, A. W., & Miller, J. K. (1989). Facing codependence: What it is, where it comes from, how it sabotages our lives. Harper Collins.

  • Meyers, R. J., & Wolfe, B. L. (2009). Get your loved one sober: Alternatives to nagging, pleading, and threatening. Simon and Schuster.

Introductory
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Counselors

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.

 

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

 

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.

Addiction Counselors

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. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

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 continuing education credit.

 

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

 

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.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

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

 

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.

Psychologists

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

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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Rob Weiss, PhD, MSW

Dr. Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT is Chief Clinical Officer of Seeking Integrity LLC, which provides residential and online treatment, education, and support for male sexual addicts and their families. Seeking Integrity also offers specialized residential treatment for men with co-occurring sexual and substance abuse disorders.

An educator, author, and licensed clinician for nearly 30 years, Dr. Rob has created six residential intimacy and addiction treatment programs in the US, Southeast Asia, and the US military. He has served as a subject-matter expert for numerous major media outlets, including CNN, NPR, and The New York Times, among others.

Dr. Rob is the author of eleven books, including Prodependence, Sex Addiction 101, and Out of the Doghouse. His Psychology Today blog, “Love and Sex in the Digital Age,” has over 22 million reads, while his podcast, “Sex, Love, & Addiction,” has over 1.2 million downloads.

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