As the Clinical Director of Training and Consultation for the Gorski-CENAPS® Corporation I am very excited to announce that Brentwood Meadows has now taken the next step towards the Gorski-CEANPS® Relapse Prevention Center of Excellence (COE).  Last month I conducted the first staff training for the new Brentwood Meadows Program; a 24 Bed Hospital licensed facility in Evansville Indiana. Today I finished the second training and the first day of Center of Excellence Evaluation.

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 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 second clinical protocol they will need in order to meet the Relapse Prevention COE criteria. This training was a Gorski-CENAPS® Relapse Prvention Counseling competency certification training.

As Brentwood’s goal is to offer true multidisciplinary treatment they also arranged to have all disciplines represented at this intensive training including the Brentwood Meadows nursing staff. I also met for dinner meetings with the Director of Addiction, Ed Ross to help him devlop systems to best implement the Gorski-CENAPS Model into Brentwood Meadows.

Brentwood Meadows continues to actively use the new Gorski/Blampied Cognit System. Cognit is a web-based psychoeducational system that also offers online education sessions, quizzes, self-awareness journaling, and outcome data tracking. Brentwood Meadows has niow been seeing patients for the past three weeks and as I met with several of the patients who have a chronic relapse history (as many as 8 treatment attempts) they were all extremely impressed and hopeful that this time they will learn the relapses prevention tools they so badly need.

In addition to offering training in relaspe prevention and denial management for addictive disorders, I have modified those processes 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.

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.

You can learn more about the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System at our website www.addiction-free.com. If you are working with people in chronic pain or are living with chronic pain and have any resistance or denial and want to learn how to develop a plan for helping to identify and manage denial please go to our Publications page and check out my book the Denial Management Counseling for Effective Pain Management Workbook. To purchase this book please Click Here.  

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