COSIG CONFERENCE BROCHURE.pdf - Drexel University College ...

COSIG Co-Occurring Disorders Conference, Hershey PA, May 15-17, 2006
Challenge Cognitive Simplicity
• Reductionism has a role in science.
• Individuals involved in drug/criminal lifestyle also
engage in extensive reductionism.
• Reduce objects and events to dichotomized
categories while trying to construe the world
through “black and white lenses.
• Challenge an individual’s most cherished
assumption by adopting a contrary position
(devil’s advocate)
• Forming a collaborative relationship (Socratic
method).
• Contrasting an idea with its opposite to achieve
a new idea or synthesis (dialectic method)
Community
Social Support
• “Community” encompasses an individual’s
social commitments, obligations, and
involvements.
• Social support, unlike enabling, infers
acceptance of the individual rather than
acceptance of the individual’s behavior.
• Without social supports the odds that
change will take root are substantially
reduced.
Encourage The Individual’s Sense
Of Connection
• Community means perceiving one’s connection
with the surrounding environment.
• The ability to move beyond the current situation
and life status.
• Seek sense of connection to something outside
him or herself.
Motivation/Engagement
• Coercion
•Persuasion
• Constructive Confrontation
• External Contingencies (threats)
• Bribe/Incentive
•Beg
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