Resilient Families: Communication Cultivates Adaptability Within Family Systems
Location: Webinar
Description
Recovery for families involves positive stress management, coping with change, and the availability of support. We will examine how learning to cope with manageable stress is critical to developing resilience. Communication and community collaboration will be highlighted as essential to family members building skills, creating biological resistance to adversity, and experiencing resilient outcomes.
The UK Society for Behaviour Medicine invites all behavioural and public health researchers, clinical practitioners, epidemiologists, health and clinical psychologists, medical sociologists, health economists, nurses, pharmacists and all other colleagues interested in the field of behavioural medicine to participate in the two day meeting from Thursday 16th January - Friday 17th January 2020.
2nd International Conference on Trauma and Addiction: Integrated Approaches to Attachment, Relationships, and Family Issues
Location: Scottsdale, United States
This International Conference on Trauma and Addiction brings together world-renowned researchers, authors, clinicians, and trainers to review and discuss the interaction between trauma, chemical and behavioural addictions, and psychiatric illnesses.
This gathering of health professionals is hosted by Meadows Behavioral Healthcare and Newport Academy.
In a series of plenary sessions along with focused in-depth workshops, this event will focus on the interaction of attachments, neurobiology, and the developmental aspects of trauma’s effects on individuals and families.
This is the third of a four-part seminar series co-hosted by SHAAP and IAS (Institute of Alcohol Studies) to discuss issues relating to men and alcohol. At this session, three invited experts will discuss the following questions:
What role does alcohol play in men’s mental health?
How is men’s physical health affected by alcohol?
How can we increase awareness about the health-related harms of drinking alcohol?
The Advanced International Winter Symposium on Addictive Disorders, Behavioral Health, and Mental Health has provided addiction specialists, counsellors, and behavioural health professionals with world-class education and training for 45 years. This symposium creates unprecedented opportunities to share knowledge, perspectives, and cutting edge research.
The Winter Symposium includes exhibits, plenaries, and networking opportunities related to:
Gambling is related to many public health outcomes.
In this webinar, Dr Elton-Marshall will provide recent findings from several studies exploring the extent to which gambling relates to behavioural addictions, substance use, bullying, and physical activity among adolescents in Ontario.
She will further discuss recent findings of the legalization of online gambling in Ontario and how online gamblers may differ from “land-based only” gamblers.
The 24th Managing Drug and Alcohol Problems in Primary Care Conference
Location: London, United Kingdom
The 24th Managing Drug and Alcohol Problems in Primary Care Conference 2020 will take place on Thursday 30 & Friday 31st January 2020 at RCGP HQ, 30 Euston Square, London.
This joint Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Substance Misuse Management Good Practice (SMMGP) conference is the largest event in the UK for GPs, shared care workers, nurses and other primary care staff, specialists, commissioners and researchers interested in, and involved with the management of drug and alcohol users in primary care.
