As the Clinical Director of Training and Consultation for the Gorski-CENAPS® Corporation I am very excited to announce a new Gorski-CEANPS® Relapse Prevention Center of Excellence (COE) collaboration. Earlier this year we started conversations with Pat Hammer the Founder of the brand new Brentwood Meadows; a 24 Bed Hospital licensed facility in Evansville Indiana.

This is like no other hospital facility I have seen. For example the ceilings in the patient area were 25 feet high, which gave that area a feeling of spaciousness. The furniture was not the traditional institutional grade but rather more like you would find in a high end hotel. In addition, Brentwood Meadows is located in a pleasant rural area outside of Evansville that will give their patients a sense of peace and serenity. To see photos please visit the Brentwood Meadows Website and check out their photo album of building construction and check out the rest of their website to learn more about them.

This past week I spent four days in Evansville and trained the staff in the first clinical protocol they will need in order to meet the Relapse Prevention COE criteria. This training was a combination of an overview of the Gorski-CENAPS® Developmental Model of Recovery and 20 hours of our Denial Management Counseling competency certification training.

As Brentwood’s goal is to offer true multidisciplinary treatment Mr. Hammer also arranged to have all disciplines take this intensive training including the Brentwood Meadows nursing staff. I also met for dinner meetings with the Clinical Director, Judy Unger, and the Director of Addiction, Ed Ross to help them develop the treatment schedules and how to best implement the Gorski-CENAPS Model into Brentwood Meadows.

Brentwood Meadows will also be the first Untied States program to use the new Gorski/Blampied Cognit System. Cognit is a web-based psychoeducational system that also offers online quizzes, self-awareness journaling, and outcome data tracking. Brentwood Meadows plans to start seeing patients as early as next week as they have already received JCAHO accreditation and when I left yesterday the Indiana State Licensing director was onsite to take the last steps for state licensing.

In addition to offering a training in denial management for addictive disorders, I have modified the Denial Management Counseling process for work with people living with chronic pain and coexisting disorders including addiction. To learn more about chronic pain management and denial please check out my article From Denial to Effective Pain Management that you can download for free on our Article page.

You can learn more about the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System at our website www.addiction-free.com. If you or a loved one is undergoing chronic pain management, especially if you’re in recovery or believe you may have a medication or other mental health problem and you want to learn more effective chronic pain management tools, please go to our Publications page and check out my books; especially the Addiction-Free Pain Management® Recovery Guide: Managing Pain and Medication in Recovery. To purchase this book please Click Here.

If you would like to see my upcoming trainings and especially to learn about my 20 hour (three days) Addiction-Free Pain Management® Certification Training on December 7-9, 2009 in Sacramento California designed to teach treatment strategies for people living with chronic pain and coexisting disorders including disorders including addiction please Click Here and scroll down to the December 7-9, 2009 for the description and how to sign up.

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