GACA Professional Development

 Virtual Only

Adolescent Toxic Relationships & Toxic Family: Gateway to Substance Abuse

Saturday, April 5, 2025

8:45 AM Check-In  

9:00 AM Workshop Begins

12:30 PM  Lunch Break

1:00 PM   Workshop Continues

4:00  PM  Workshop Concludes

Location:  Online

6.0 CE Hours Approved by GACA, GAMFT, GSCSW and NAADAC.  

Approved for 6.0 Clock Hours with NBCC.

Description: 

 This training is for substance abuse professionals and other service providers interested in increasing their adolescent client's possibility of ongoing recovery and reduce adolescent substance abuse recidivism. Participants will receive insight regarding the link between substance use disorders and the adolescents involvement in toxic relationships with peers as well as toxicity with family members. Toxic family issues are often associated with the onset of substance abuse as well as substance abuse relapse.  Participants will gain insight regarding toxic family roles and common schemas, thus assisting in identifying the role of their adolescent clients play in family dynamics.

Various user-friendly handouts and worksheets will be provided as tools to assist in assessing current and past drug related toxic relationships.  

Learning objectives: 

  • Participants will gain insight regarding common schemas and the impact these schemas have on unhealthy choices related to SUD and toxic relationships.
  • Participants will also gain insight to assist the client in moving into readiness for change in relation to toxic family members, as a relapse prevention measure. 
  • Participants will receive insight regarding the link between substance abuse disorders and the adolescents´ involvement in toxic relationships with peers as well as toxicity with family members.
  • Participants will be equipped to assist adolescents in identifying toxic relationships as gateways to substance abuse.
  • Participants will be equipped to assist adolescents in identifying relationship related substance abuse relapse triggers.


Presenter:  Pamela Morgan, BSHS, MBA, CADC, CPRM 

 

Pamela Morgan, MBA/BSHS/CADC/CPRM is a nationally known trainer and substance abuse professional - providing services since 1993. She is the owner of KEY INSIGHTS, LLC., an approved professional development training provider with the Michigan Certification Board of Addiction Professionals (MCBAP) as well as other certification boards in other states. 

  

Best known for her training Toxic Relationships: Another Addiction (Adolescents & Adults), Morgan develops and facilitates various topics including Addiction to Crime, Stages of Life: Adolescents’ Addictive Behaviors’ link to Adult Substance Use Disorders, Enhancing Motivation for Change, Recovery Relapse and the 12 Steps, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking and Substance Use Disorders (Adults and Adolescents), Ethics, Boundaries & Confidentiality Practices for Clinicians and Peer Specialists Providing Collaborative Services to Adults and Adolescents with Substance Use Disorder, Prevention Ethics, Venus and Mars: Gender Specific Treatment Issues and Treatment Strategies for Adults and Youth with Substance Use Disorders, A Journey of Healing: Group & Individual Rape / Incest Counseling and Addiction in the Church. 

  

With more than 31 years of personal recovery, over 27 years of experience working with treatment, prevention, correctional and adolescent populations, and more than 22 years providing professional development training, Morgan offers a wealth of personal and professional experience. 


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The Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) represents the professional interests of more than 100,000 addiction counselors, educators, and other addiction-focused health care professionals.


Georgia Addiction Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7302.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Georgia Addiction Counselors Association is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.  


Registration

  • 6.0 CE Hours, Virtual Only

  • 6.0 CE Hours, Virtual Only

  • that Continuing Education is part of my professional and ethical responsibilities. This requirement is for my betterment and for the welfare of my clients. It is not simply a box to check, but for my professional growth and development as a clinician.

  • that I can not miss more than 15 minutes of a training/workshop in order to receive CE credit, as per the regulations governing CE approvals.

  • it is unethical and unprofessional to be working (engaged in work), shopping, at a restaurant, playing video games, watching tv, or engaged in any other activity that would cause me to be distracted from learning.

  • I may be required to have my camera turned on.

  • to type my name into the chat box at random times.

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