Virtual Lecture Series: Understanding Adult Children of Alcoholics, Addicts, and Dysfunctional Families (ACOA)

Futures is a proud member of the Florida behavioral healthcare community committed to reducing the stigma surrounding addiction and its treatment. We invite you to join our virtual lecture series via the Zoom platform to learn from innovative practitioners, and enjoy a morning of knowledge, inspiration, and camaraderie. This will be a virtual lecture with Q&A to follow. We will provide a reminder and meeting link to anyone who has registered. This event is co-sponsored by BaysideCEU.  

Presentation Overview

Identifying and understanding the traits of adult children of alcoholics, addicts, and dysfunctional families is important for helping our clients and patients recognize their own experiences, needs, and patterns of behavior. With understanding there comes safety, support, and validation. These are essential for us to create a safe and secure environment for our clients and patients to lean into vulnerability, which is important for healing. This course will unpack the best ways to support ACOA individuals on their healing journey by defining the key treatment methods to implement.

Course Objectives:

1. Participants will learn to identify the present-day characteristics of adult children of alcoholics, addicts, and dysfunctional families. As identified in the ACOA literature, page 5-6 of the Big Red Book, there are fourteen characteristics of an Adult Child that define the “Laundry List”.

2. Participants will learn how to identify the origin of ACOA traits in order to provide greater understanding and validation to their clients/patients. When we are able to provide language to our experiences, it is then that we are able to accurately move through the experience with greater awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and needs. Helping our clients/patients get to this point allows us to accurately treat the root causes of their ACOA traits.  

3. Participants will be able to better understand how to help their clients/patients work through and overcome ACOA traits through proven treatment methods such as: CBT, DBT, EMDR therapy; as well as, the use of attachment theory, grief work, boundaries, and self-care.

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You will need your license number and type to receive credit for this course. This course is approved for 2 hours through: 
• NBCC
• NAADAC
• Florida Board of Nursing
• Florida Board of Nursing-Certified Nursing Assistants
• Florida Board of Clinical SW, MFT, and MHC,
• Florida Certification Board
• Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, And Marriage and Family Therapist Board for LPC
• South Carolina Board of Social Work Examiners
• South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapist